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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth. -

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth. – Alan Watts

Other quotes by Alan Watts

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible. – Alan Watts

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God
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Alan Watts
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To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you dont grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float. – Alan Watts

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Faith
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Alan Watts
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So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself. – Alan Watts

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relationship
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Other Quotes from
Self-Discovery
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No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself. – Thomas Mann

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Self-Discovery

Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, he wants to reestablish them. Ignorance irritates him and knowledge cloys. – Amiel, Journal, 1884

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Self-Discovery

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. – George Moore

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Self-Discovery

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want. – Ben Stein

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Self-Discovery

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Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness on the confines of two everlasting hostile empires, — Necessity and Free Will. – Thomas Carlyle, Essays, “The Opera”

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Content and technology are strange bed fellows. We are joined together. Sometimes we misunderstand each other. But isnt that after all the definition of marriage? – Howard Stringer

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Technology

Most high courts in other nations do not have discretion, such as we enjoy, in selecting the cases that the high court reviews. Our court is virtually alone in the amount of discretion it has. – Sandra Day OConnor

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alone

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving. – Merle Shain

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thankful