A Quote by Terence McKenna

We are like caterpillars contemplating pupation.

Terence McKenna

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Terence McKenna
American - Writer
November 16, 1946 - April 3, 2000

Adding wings to caterpillars does not create butterflies. It creates awkward and dysfunctional caterpillars. Butterflies are created through transformation.

Stephanie Pace Marshall

When a man does a household job, he goes through three periods: contemplating how it will be done; contemplating when it will be done; and contemplating.

Marcelene Cox

Church members are either pillars or caterpillars. The pillars hold up the church, and the caterpillars just crawl in and out.

Grenville Kleiser

We spend a big hunk of our lifetimes contemplating what we can't have, what we don't want and what's missing in our lives. What we have to learn is to put our attention and focus on contemplating what it is we would like to attract, and not on what is missing.

Wayne Dyer

It is better to spend one day contemplating the birth and death of all things than a hundred years never contemplating beginnings and endings.

Gautama Buddha

It comes with being sixteen," Mom said. "You teenagers, you go into a cocoon when you turn fifteen and don't come out for years." "So they become butterflies when they finally come out?" my little sister Christina asked. "No," Mom said. "They're still caterpillars, only now they're big fat caterpillars that smell.

Neal Shusterman

Live contemplating the body through mindfulness. Live contemplating feelings. In this way you will be aware of and control wrong desires.

Gautama Buddha

We are wide-eyed in contemplating the possibility that life may exist elsewhere in the universe, but we wear blinders when contemplating the possibilities of life on earth.

Norman Cousins

The law of floatation was not discovered by contemplating the sinking of things, but by contemplating the floating of things which floated naturally, and then intelligently asking why they did so.

Thomas Troward

The matter of making christening robes for caterpillars, it is not a difficult one; the difficulty is to get a frisky caterpillar to keep still while one is putting on his christening robe. And then it is a problem to keep it on, after one does get it on. I do have much troubles with caterpillars crawling out of their christening robes after I do get them on.

Opal Whiteley

Writers have to keep on writing if they want to mature, like caterpillars endlessly chewing on leaves.

Haruki Murakami

Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar.

Cornelia Funke

The whole of society is like a cabbage-stalk covered with caterpillars, and none is satisfied till it has crawled to the top.

Sabine Baring-Gould

most of my wandering in the desert i've done alone. not so much from choice as from necessity - i generally prefer to go into places where no one else wants to go. i find that in contemplating the natural world my pleasure is greater if there are not too many others contemplating it with me, at the same time.

Edward Abbey

You feel like an ant contemplating Chicago.

Robert Fulghum

We make butterflies by feeding caterpillars, not by trying to paste wings on them. Kids need to like themselves the way they are, and we can help them develop a positive self-image.

Louise Hart

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