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#myth

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #myth




In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength. ↗


— Ovid


#classics #greek #humans #intelligence #metamorphoses

And in the absence of facts, myth rushes in, the kudzu of history. ↗


— Stacy Schiff


#facts-and-ideas #history #myth #life

Lights and darks. And suddenly i was here, where everything seems strange. And I don't know why. Like the Fox and the Crow, I don't know the whole story yet. But that's a good reason to go on, don't you think?" "Go where?" said the Scarecrow. "Go forward," said the girl. "See something. Learn something. Figure it out. We won't ever get the whole thing, I bet, but we'll get something. And then we'll have something to tell when we're old about what happened to us when we were young." "Now?" said the Scarecrow. "Can you tell it now?" "After," said the girl. "We have to have the BEFORE first, and that's life" "And what's life?" said the scarecrow. "Moving," said the girl. "Moving on. Shall we move on? Will you come with me? ↗


— Bruce Coville


#mythical #life

Lif and Lifthrasir will have children. Their children will have children. There will be life and new life, life everywhere on earth. That was the end; and this is the beginning. ↗


— Kevin Crossley-Holland


#ragnarok #life

Just another part of that Spartan killer instinct. I can slay the ladies just as well as I can reapers. ↗


— Jennifer Estep


#hot #mythology #funny

The ego is as you think of yourself. You in relation to all the commitments of your life, as you understand them. The self is the whole range of possibilities that you've never even thought of. And you're stuck with you're past when you're stuck with the ego. Because if all you know about yourself is what you found out about yourself, well, that already happened. The self is a whole field of potentialities to come through. ↗


— Joseph Campbell


#myth #self #life

I studied how to use the clothes washer. The handy instructions on the lid helped; so did the box of suds. It instructed me to separate the whites from the coloreds. Laundry will be the last American institution to desegregate. ↗


— Huston Piner


#historical-fiction #my-life-as-a-myth #romance #life

We are meaning-seeking creatures. Dogs, as far as we know, do not agonise about the canine condition, worry about the plight of dogs in other parts of the world, or try to see their lives from a different perspective. But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives in a larger setting, that revealed an underlying pattern, and gave us a sense that, against all the depressing and chaotic evidence to the contrary, life had meaning and value ↗


— Karen Armstrong


#human-condition #myth #mythology #life

Instantly, the pair fell to groping one other as if each had puff the magic dragon at a rock concert in Woodstock. ↗


— Tai Odunsi


#love #mythology #valentines-day #love

Could any State on Earth Immortall be, Venice by Her rare Goverment is She; Venice Great Neptunes Minion, still a Mayd, Though by the warrlikst Potentats assayed; Yet She retaines Her Virgin-waters pure, Nor any Forren mixtures can endure; Though, Syren-like on Shore and Sea, Her Face Enchants all those whom once She doth embrace, Nor is ther any can Her bewty prize But he who hath beheld her with his Eyes: Those following Leaves display, if well observed, How she long Her Maydenhead preserved, How for sound prudence She still bore the Bell; Whence may be drawn this high-fetchd parallel, Venus and Venice are Great Queens in their degree, Venus is Queen of Love, Venice of Policie. ↗


— James Howell


#mythology #poetry #sea #spqr #venice






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