Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The ultimate goal of therapy... it's too hard a question. The words come to me like tranquility, like fulfillment, like realizing your potential.
Irvin D. Yalom -
If religious people deny paradise to their opponents or to 'non-believers,' atheists would likewise seek to eliminate 'dangerous' believers with their 'childish' ways and their heads in the clouds.
Tariq Ramadan -
Louie and Seabiscuit were both Californians and both on the sports pages in the 1930s. I was fascinated. When I learned about his World War II experiences, I thought, 'If this guy is still alive, I want to meet him.'
Laura Hillenbrand -
What better way to connect with people than by staring and talking straight at them? Don't blink - that's one less connection you could have made.
Ze Frank -
I have a brass bed that's very 'Bedknobs and Broomsticks.' I got it on eBay. It's from the early 1900s.
Parker Posey -
"I think you have to be ready to quit within yourself. If you're not, it doesn't matter what rehab you go to."
Leif Garrett
-
To live coram Deo is to live one’s entire life in the presence of God, under the authority of God, to the glory of God.
R. C. Sproul -
When you have a specific vision for something, you just go in and attack it.
Christina Aguilera -
A virtuous man concentrates on his own work, not that of others.
Zengzi -
I tremble with pleasure when I think that on the very day of my leaving prison both the laburnum and the lilac will be blooming in the gardens, and that I shall see the wind stir into restless beauty the swaying gold of the one, and make the other toss the pale purple of its plumes, so that all the air shall be Arabia for me.
Oscar Wilde -
The happiest times in my life were when my relationships were going well -- when I was in love with someone, and someone was loving me. But in my whole life, I haven't met the person I can sustain a relationship with yet. So I'm discontented about that. I'm angry with myself. I have regrets.
Billy Joel -
The fact that I still find so much beauty in a handicraft is because my mother taught us to see not just the craft as a product but the craft as an embodiment of human creativity and human labor.
Vandana Shiva
-
From our birth to our death we are all the slaves of suggestion.
Emile Coue -
The biggest mistake you can make is listening to people who've given up on their dreams telling you to give up on yours.
Umair Haque -
The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
e. e. cummings -
When you're younger - duh - you don't really have the tools to deal with certain things in your life.
Scott Ian Anthrax -
The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
Terence McKenna