"Half the time you think your thinking youâ€™re actually listening"

-- Terence McKenna

#Thinking Quotes #Listening Quotes #Half Quotes

“By the time a man is 35 he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in high school do not work in life.”
“I don't really remember a time younger than 5 years old that I didn't have skates on because all I can remember is every day, tying up my skates and a big smile on my face, excited to go on the ice.”
“[I]f vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.”
“I felt like I had lost something. But not something silly, like my keys or my gum; more like my arm or my foot, something that really mattered. Like something that I could live without, but would make life much harder if it were missing. And life is hard enough. Life is hard enough with everything we're given.”
“The child was diseased at birth, stricken with a hereditary ill that only the most vital men are able to shake off. I mean poverty-the most deadly and prevalent of all diseases.”
“The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.”
“To conquer himself is the greatest victory that man can gain.”
“He could not die when the trees were green, For he loved the time too well.”

Source : 'The Dying Child'

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