#myth

Women treat us [men] like humanity treats gods – they worship us and keep bothering us to do something. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#humour #mythology #men

They sent forth men to battle, But no such men return; And home, to claim their welcome, Come ashes in an urn ↗

— Aeschylus

#men

There are no endings, only beginnings that have been reborn. ↗

— D. Byron Patterson

#inspirational #mythology #philosophical #wisdom #inspirational

I would be copping out if I stayed in the myth of the '60s. ↗

— Jerry Rubin

#myth #out #stayed #would

It grew louder, siren crying from her the depth of very voice; Sweet melodies to guide me to the underworld. ↗

— Chika Onyenezi

#inspirational #inspirational

When we illuminate the road back to our ancestors, they have a way of reaching out, of manifesting themselves...sometimes even physically. ↗

— Raquel Cepeda

#ancestry #illumination #inspirational #journey #journey-in-life

I knew then what harmony meant: what belonging was. Just like a raindrop joining in the fun at the big river. I was the little raindrop, and she was the river. ↗

— Amira Aly

#mythical #inspirational

Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#myth #story #inspirational

Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truth--penultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words. Beyond images, beyond that bounding rim of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#mythology #inspirational

Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back. ↗

— Criss Jami

#confidence #confident #determination #dragon #dragons