Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

The message coming back at all of us is: live without closure.

Terence McKenna

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• Elizabeth studied the blurry tabloid photo, which showed her cousin Mary Stuart leaving a Paris disco at dawn, drunkenly clinging to the arm of a French tennis pro. The message was very clear. Put passion first and you end up neither loved nor respected.

  

  Barbara Taylor Bradford
  • Passion
  • Loved
  • Message

• It is Sunday, mid-morning-Sunday in the living room, Sunday in the kitchen, Sunday in the woodshed, Sunday down the road in the village: I hear the bells, calling me to share God's grace.

  

  E. B. White
  • God
  • Morning
  • Road

• We must see that we are afraid of the thing we most desire, and so we live a mediocre life, never bringing to consummation the primary impulse of our heart.

  

  David Deida
  • Life
  • Live
  • Heart

• The unforgivable sin of Hitler's Germany was to develop a new economic system by which the international bankers were deprived of their profits.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Germany
  • Bankers
  • Unforgivable Sin

• They can’t even think of freedom because they don’t have the language to.

  

  M. K. Asante
  • Thinking
  • Freedom
  • Language

• Everyone steals in commerce and industry. I've stolen a lot, myself. But I know how to steal! They don't know how to steal!

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Industry
  • Commerce
  • Steals

• You should be more afraid of a stupid man than of an evil one.

  

  Queen Christina
  • Man
  • Stupid
  • Afraid

• The reality is that a consumer culture which chucks out its iPhones for a new version every nine months is completely unsustainable, because Earth has already reached the tipping point. The General Strike attempts to personalize these issues and encourage listeners to look for a new model.

  

  Justin Cathal Geever Anti-Flag
  • Reality
  • Earth
  • Culture

• One always has the air of someone who is lying when one speaks to a policeman.

  

  Charles-Louis Philippe
  • Truth
  • Air
  • Speak

• Some authors have conceptualized depression as a "depletion syndrome" because of the prominence of fatigability; they postulate that the patient exhausts his available energy during the period prior to the onset of the depression and that the depressed state represents a kind of hibernation, during which the patient gradually builds up a new story of energy.

  

  Aaron T. Beck
  • Energy
  • Story
  • Depression

• Principals don't like surprises, but I like this one. Thank you for paying attention to those of us who had concerns.

  

  Charlie Scott
  • Attention
  • Surprises
  • Concerns

• Tear down the mosque, the temple, everything in sight. But don't break a human heart. For that is where God resides.

  

  Bulleh Shah
  • God
  • Human Heart
  • Temple

• I love you, Snow, and have since the hour we first met. Hell, I wanted you even before then. Since before we existed. As if every movement of every star and planet, every tick of creation's clock occurred only so that we could someday find each other.

  

  Bill Willingham
  • Movement
  • I Love You
  • Existed

• In that intensely busy time of children and work, soup became my stalwart friend and I learned its true value. Anyone who's been there knows. You're busy, too much to do, time vanishes, the kids are relentless, and everyone is hungry all the time. Something as comforting, delicious, and practical as soup is like gold.

  

  Anna Thomas
  • Value
  • Comforting
  • Soup

• If you can measure success in this business based on happiness alone I feel like I've hit the lottery.

  

  Justin Long
  • Business
  • Success
  • Lottery

• Discipline is a necessary tool to help you get what you want in life. It forces you to stay on center and to move away from the things that are not necessary.

  

  Diana Ross
  • Life
  • Help
  • Moving

• If you have no enemies, you have no character. Taking a stand always creates opposition.

  

  Paul Newman
  • Character
  • Enemy
  • Opposition

• The message coming back at all of us is: live without closure.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Messages
  • Closure