A Quote by Terence McKenna

I have never felt that the primary use of these things was to cure what is called in modern parlance neurosis, what I call unhappiness. It isn't for that.

Terence McKenna

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

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

Eckhart Tolle

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Eckhart Tolle

Boredom is the only sure cure for neurosis.

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Sune Rose Wagner

I've always been fascinated by mythology or, in modern parlance, by X-Men or vampires.

Marcus Sakey

If you, however, separate reason and faith so that it's purely a rationalistic scheme, it will end in violence. If a pure faith scheme - sometimes called the fundamentalist scheme in modern parlance - you'll end in violence too.

Francis George

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Theresa Rebeck

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Kelly Carlin-McCall

The primary aim of modern warfare ... is to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living.

George Orwell

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William J. Clinton

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but thought about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking. Separate them from the situation, which is always neutral. It is as it is.

Eckhart Tolle

we use TV as we use tranquilizers- to even things out, to blot out unpleasantness, to dilute confusion, distress, unhappiness, loneliness.

Bill McKibben

I've always felt like an outsider as a woman. I've never really felt wholly comfortable in a women's world or woman's things. I've never been conventionally pretty or thin or girly-girl. Never felt dateable. All I've seen on TV has never felt like mine.

Alex Borstein

Unhappiness is something we are never taught about; we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive.

Douglas Coupland

What do people mean when they talk about unhappiness? It is not so much unhappiness as impatience that from time to time possesses men, and then they choose to call themselves miserable.