#sum

We have to create culture, don't watch TV, don't read magazines, don't even listen to NPR. Create your own roadshow. The nexus of space and time where you are now is the most immediate sector of your universe, and if you're worrying about Michael Jackson or Bill Clinton or somebody else, then you are disempowered, you're giving it all away to icons, icons which are maintained by an electronic media so that you want to dress like X or have lips like Y. This is shit-brained, this kind of thinking. That is all cultural diversion, and what is real is you and your friends and your associations, your highs, your orgasms, your hopes, your plans, your fears. And we are told 'no', we're unimportant, we're peripheral. 'Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that.' And then you're a player, you don't want to even play in that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world. ↗

— Terence McKenna

#culture #inspirational #life #tv #wisdom

His lips tasted cool and sharp, peppermint, winter, but his hands, soft on the back of my neck, promised long days and summer and forever. ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#summer

it's a smile, it's a kiss, it's a sip of wine ... it's summertime! ↗

— Kenny Chesney

#smile #summer #wine #summer

There are two kinds of people in this world. The kind who divide the world into two kinds of people and those who don't. ↗

— Ann Brashares

#bridget #carmen #summer

How does it feel to know that even at my worst, you're still not good enough? ↗

— Courtney Summers

#summer

I wondered if this was the way old crushes died, with a whimper, slowly, and then, just like that—gone. ↗

— Jenny Han

#summer

When you come to the edge of all that you know, you must believe one of two things: either there will be ground to stand on, or you will be given wings to fly. ↗

— O.R. Melling

#summer

If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper... ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#sebastian #summer #teddy-bear #summer

I accept the hard reality that I maybe might possibly be just the slightest tiniest littlest bit kinda sorta interested in him. ↗

— Sarah Ockler

#summer

The Master said, “If your conduct is determined solely by considerations of profit you will arouse great resentment. ↗

— Confucius

#consumerism #greed #materialism #profit #greed