"For unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax. There is no point whatever in making plans for a future which you will never be able to enjoy. When your plans mature, you will still be living for some other future beyond. You will never, never be able to sit back with full contentment and say, "Now, I've arrived!" Your entire education has deprived you of this capacity because it was preparing you for the future, instead of showing you how to be alive now."

-- Alan Watts

#Contentment Quotes #Alive Quotes #Able Quotes

“Everyone can err, but Stalin considered that he never erred, that he was always right. He never acknowledged to anyone that he made any mistake, large or small, despite the fact that he made not a few mistakes in the matter of theory and in his practical activity.”
“A few caring kind quality friends are worth more than any amount of shallow popularity.”
“I'm a workaholic. I've been doing my job for a long time.”
“Determine your future now by taking hold of every opportunity.”
“I entered his apartment without being invited, which is perfectly fine if you're not a vampire.”
“Being around people like Aretha Franklin and Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick and Roberta Flack, all these greats, I was taught to listen and observe.”
“There is so much one would rather not believe until one has seen for oneself whether it is true.”

Source : Selma Lagerlöf (1936). “Mårbacka”
“What can I do if everyone from the president to a junior bureaucrat is dying to convict me. If I am such a criminal, what was I doing outside jail before my marriage to Benazir?”

Source : "Asif Zardari: A Man With an Incredibly Attractive Personality". Interview with Arun Chacko, www.indiatoday.in. May 15, 1991.

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