J. C. Watts Quotes

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had.

Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be

This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.

You are the universe experiencing itself.

We see what we believe rather than what we see.

Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.

A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with Reality, and lives in a world of illusion.

Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own judgment.

Insecurity is the result of trying to be secure.

As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one of the best possible contributions to a world in turmoil.

Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.

It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

It's been years and years and years I've been playing the drums, and they're still a challenge. I still enjoy using drumsticks and a snare drum.

If we are unduly absorbed in improving our lives we may forget altogether to live them.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Don't hurry anything. Don't worry about the future. Don't worry about what progress you're making. Just be entirely content to be aware of what is.

The eyes of a man in the jaundice make yellow observations on everything; and the soul tinctured with any passion diffuses a false color over the appearance of things.

But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

Zen... does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

We're all just memories of our future selves.

Everything in the world is gloriously meaningless.

Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we're not alone.

Republicans think that the NAACP is the only voice in the black community. It is a voice in the black community. But it's not the only voice.

All that you see out in front of you is how you feel inside your head.

Were the whole realm of nature mine, That were a present far too small: Love so amazing, so divine Demands my soul, my life, my all.

Poesy and oratory omit things not essential, and insert little beautiful digressions, in order to place everything in the most effective light.

Real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.

Having a Republican candidate speak at the NAACP convention is like trying to build a house starting at the roof. If you don't have a foundation, the roof isn't going to stand.

Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

Feel not as though it is a sphere we live on. Rather, an infinite plane which has the illusion of leading yourself back to the point of origin.

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple.

The 'you' who you think you are does not exist.

We have a strange anxiety in us; that if we don't interfere then it won't happen. Now that's the root of an enormous amount of trouble.

Busy people are never busybodies.

Rock and roll has probably given more than it's taken.

I'm secure in who I am. I don't need the validation of those that would say, you have to be a certain thing in order to be accepted. I'm comfortable going against the grain if I need to.

Governor is not the position to have in Oklahoma. It is the head coach of Oklahoma or Oklahoma State or Tulsa.

Every one of his opinions appears to himself to be written with sunbeams.

Innovation is the process of turning ideas into manufacturable and marketable form.

I always love being in the company of women. It's all about good conversation and great wine.

It takes a lot of strength to let go.