#gods

The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things. ↗

— Homer

#greek-gods #life-lessons #the-odyssey #life

Never say never,” he said urgently, rolling back on top of her and using all of his unusually heavy mass to press her deep into the cocoon of her little girl bed. “The gods love to toy with people who use absolutes. ↗

— Josephine Angelini

#gods #love

The Gods know what it is to be eternal, and they love to toy with mortals who use absolutes. ↗

— Josephine Angelini

#love

God is love, but He also defines what love is. We don't have the license to define love according to our standards. ↗

— Francis Chan

#love

When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods. ↗

— Leon Battista Alberti

#among #discover #forces #gods #heavens

The gods were great, but what good was greatness if you didn't love? ↗

— Lev Grossman

#love #love

Men had no purpose on earth whereas women were gods walking unrecognized among them. ↗

— Kate Atkinson

#gods #jackson-brodie #men #women #men

But for a moment Dirk had a sense of inifinite loss and sadness that somewhere among the frenzy of information noise that daily rattled the lives of men he thought he might have heard a few notes that denoted the movements of gods. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#humanity #men

Do you know the primary difference between men and gods? ... Gods don’t think they can become men ↗

— Dennis Lehane

#men #men

The gods are blind. And men see only what they wish" - Tyrion Lannister ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#men #men