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Once upon a time an Athenian princesss named Prokne was wed to Tereus, king of the barbarous Thracians of the north. When Prokne's unfortunate sister, Philomela, came for a visit, Tereus fell madly in love with the girl locked her away and raped her, then cut out her tongue to prevent her from telling anyone of the crime. Philomela, however, wove into a cloth the story of her misfortune. When Prokne, receiving the cloth, understood what had befallen, she freed her sister, killed her own son, Itys, whom she had borne to Tereus, and served the child up to his father at a feast--the vilest revenge she could think of. When Tereus discovered the truth, in wrath he pursued the two sisters, thinking to kill them, but the gods transformed all three into birds: Tereus into the hoopoe (a large, crested bird with a daggerlike beak), Philomela into the swallow, which can only twitter unintelligibly, and Prokne into the nightingale, which spends the night singing 'Itys Itys!' in mourning for her dead son. All these birds have reddish spots, it is said, from getting spattered with the blood of the child....It is interesting in our purposes because it shows in yet another way the great importance that clothmaking had in women's lives, becoming central to their mythology as well.
— Elizabeth Wayland Barber, Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times
unsignificantlyoff the coastthere wasa splash quite unnoticedthis was Icarus drowning
— William Carlos Williams
The story of Eve and the serpent, and of Noah and his ark, drops to a level with the Arabian Tales, without the merit of being entertaining, and the account of men living to eight and nine hundred years becomes as fabulous as the immortality of the giants of the Mythology.
— Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
Sweet Echo, sweetest nymph that liv'st unseenWithin thy airy shellBy slow Meander's margent green,And in the violet-imbroider'd valeWhere the love-lorn nightingaleNightly to thee her sad song mourneth well:Canst thou not tell me of a gentle pairThat likest thy Narcissus are?
— John Milton, The Complete Poems
We're two fools, you know," he said, looking into her eyes. "I don't remember the moment I fell in love with you, but I breathe it in every minute, every day.
— Laurel Cremant, Wynter's Fall
Hades cracked his knuckles on each hand, and the noise was like gunpowder caps exploding in the silence. "First dish duty," he mumbled to himself, "now possessed cowboys. This just isn't my night.
— Josh Strnad, Pantheon
He shook his head again. “I’m afraid I don’t feel much of anything these days. Especially not hope. I have no time or energy to waste on false wishes and dreams that won’t come true.”“Hope isn’t about ignorant wishing.” She surprised even herself with herdefensive backlash. “Hope is about believing—believing there are betterthings in store for us if we just wait for them. It’s about understanding we’re not left completely on our own here, regardless of the way things appear.”Lamont snorted. “That ain’t much for a body to go on.”“Perhaps not, but I reckon it’s enough. Sometimes it’s gotta be, anyhow.Without hope, what would drive one onward?”He was silent for a long moment before he looked up and met her eyes.His own eyes displayed no emotion when he answered in a weary, grimtone, “Fear.” He took a drink and fell silent again as she quietly scrutinized him, attempting to discern in his haggard face the thoughts behind what he had said.
— Josh Strnad, Pantheon
Neleus...The son of Poseidon!A birth that came from the mate of a god and a mortal woman.Not plain at all!So it was, when the gods love, mate as humans with humans!From such a union two children were born, both boys.Their mother placed them in a small boat, and dropped it into the sea.The sea loved and saved them, children of Neptune were anyway!The river itself is connected with the sea, fresh water with salt, the land and the sea..."The sea herself guided us like legendary heroes into this new place ..".It couldn't be differently.Children of the Gods aren't we, our race? Have similar origin and similar history! Could not abandoned us, prey and exposed, like the two babies?
— Katerina Kostaki, Το ταξίδι της ζωής φέρνει ελπίδες
She became his Ariadne, leading him through the labyrinth of books, stopping now and then to pass another one to him.
— Donna Leon, By Its Cover
He saw her eyes bright as stars; he saw her lips, and was not satisfied with only seeing them.
— Bulfinch, Thomas
Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
— Plutarch
My reading and studying and retellings of old stories didn't do anything except help me think better. I was at least thoughtful. Too thoughtful, my friends said. And all I thought about was myths and old paintings that made me feel drunk on wine or struck my lightning but didn't matter to most people.
— Francesca Lia Block, Love in the Time of Global Warming
In every one of the Greeks' mythology tales, there is this: a man chasing a woman, or a woman chasing a man. There is never a meeting in the middle.
— Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones
In a segment of the Sermon on the Mount, appearing in Matthew 5, Jesus is reported to have set six new teachings of his against six old Jewish teachings. The latter are introduced by such words as 'You have heard that it was said by them of old time' and the former by 'But I say unto you.'Since both the teachings of old time and Jesus' new teachings are predicated on the same profoundly mistaken views of human nature and of the world in general, it is unimportant for us here today to compare and contrast these teachings or to determine which is better or worse in some way or other. The point is that whether better or worse, in this way or that, both are lodged in an egregiously mistaken mythology -- but in a mythology of enormous importance for us, because it is one of the wellsprings of Western culture.
— Delos McKown
I consider fantasy the heir of mythology, addressing a real human need to seek out answers to life’s many mysteries. It is a genre that can tell an entertaining and enthralling story on the surface, and yet deliver a potent message underneath, where everything becomes a symbol of something greater.
— Dean F. Wilson
Everyone thinks of Anubis as this super jacked up jackal. I find that amusing. I guess he must work out a lot.” I guess when you think of it, it is kind of funny. No other picture of gods from that time are ripped. I guess Anubis did Egyptian steroids.
— Jessica Florence, Weighing of the Heart
I wish people would spread a Faustian rumor about me.' I leaned over and knocked Sunshine's hand out of Luke's hair. 'A Faustian myth,' I repeated. 'It's so much more interesting than just being that nouveau-poor blond girl who lives in a big house with nobody but her jackass brother with pecs bigger than his brain. Sunshine, if I ever disappear, please tell people that I ran after the Devil, trying to get my soul back.
— April Genevieve Tucholke, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
My point, once again, is not that those ancient people told literal stories and we are now smart enough to take them symbolically, but that they told them symbolically and we are now dumb enough to take them literally.
— John Dominic Crossan, Who Is Jesus? Answers to Your Questions About the Historical Jesus
Did you bring me a rat?""He has no time for rats, George.""No time for rats? That's just sad.
— Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian
We're pieces on a gameboard, Dr. March, and some of us are more powerful than others. You. Me. Her. We're the ones the gods want. We're the ones they're fighting over.
— Richelle Mead, Gameboard of the Gods
Her physical beauty had initially caught my attention, but it was her spirit that imprisoned my heart and soul forever. - Jonathan
— Helen Boswell, Mythology: The Wicked
What the myth founds is a double existence between the upper world and the underworld: a dimension of death is introduced into life, and a dimension of life is introduced into death.
— Walter Burkert, Greek Religion
In the aether I appear in fiery forms, And in the aer I sit in a silvery chariot; earth reigns in my black brood of puppies.
— Porphyry
He loved a lifeless thing and he was utterly and hopelessly wretched.
— Ovid
One finds the same basic mythological themes in all the religions of the world, from the most primitive to the most sophisticated, from the North American plains to European forests to Polynesian atolls. The imagery of myth is a language, a lingua franca that expresses something basic about our deepest humanity. It is variously inflected in its various provinces.
— Joseph Campbell, Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation
Oh, one more thing,' Thor calls out. 'If I know my prophecy, and I do, you beautiful ladies had best start looking for a boat!
— Daniel Keidl, Armageddon: Pick Your Plot
The visage of Lucifer mushroomed into hideousness above the cloudbank, rising slowly like some titan climbing to its feet after ages of imprisonment in the Earth.
— Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz
Sorry, there’s just not enough mead to go around.
— Daniel Keidl, Armageddon: Pick Your Plot
The mythology of freedom under capitalism for the average person is a con job.
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
I stepped between him and the window so I was inches from his face. “There’s only one Ophi I’ve ever been interested in.” I tugged on his arm, making him face me again. I reached up on my toes and pressed my lips against his. He wrapped his arms around me, pulling me closer to him. His kiss was hungry, like he didn’t want to let go. Finally, I pulled away, completely breathless. Alex just smiled, clearly impressed with himself.
— Kelly Hashway, Stalked by Death
Whosoever holds this hammer, if he be worthy, shall possess the power of Thor.
— Stan Lee
Swords can’t solve every problem.
— Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena
...She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire.
— Virgil, The Aeneid
So Beckendorf was pretty popular?" Leo asked. "I mean-before he blew up?
— Rick Riordan
Leo got up and brushed himself off. "I hate that guy". He offered Jason his arm like they should go skipping together."I`m Dylan. I`m so cool, I want to date myself, but I can`t figure out how! You want to date me instead? You`re so lucky!""Leo" Jason said "You`re weird
— Rick Riordan, The Lost Hero
In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship.
— Joseph Campbell, A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living
Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it.
— Joseph Campbell, A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living
One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment.
— Joseph Campbell, A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living
There's my baby!" I cried, quite carried away, "There's my poochiekins!"..."Sadie," My dad said firmly, "Please do not refer to the devourer of souls as 'poochiekins'.
— Rick Riordan
Awe is what moves us forward.
— Joseph Campbell, A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living
From the necks up... well, whoever said two heads are better than one never met a hydra.
— Tera Lynn Childs, Sweet Venom
The reading eye must do the work to make them live, and so it did, again and again, never the same life twice, as the artist had intended.
— A.S. Byatt, Ragnarok
[Hades] returned his attention to the playlist while I eased the car back on the road. His fingers flipped deftly over the screen. 'Orpheus...Dusk...Orpheus...Dusk...do you have anything on here that doesn't make people want to jump off a cliff?' ... 'I'm driving. When you learn to drive something more modern than a horse and buggy, we can listen to your music.''I can drive!''Did they even have cars the last time you can to the surface?' I teased.'Yes.''Not counting the minute and a half you spent rescuing me last year?'Hades fell silent, and I laughed. 'I didn't think so.
— Kaitlin Bevis
No mortal ear could have heard the kelpie passing through the night, for the great black hooves of it were as soundless in their stride as feathers falling.
— Mollie Hunter, The Kelpie's Pearls
In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship.You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it.Awe is what moves us forward.
— Joseph Campbell, A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living
The name Eve/Eab/Age stems from the Latin aetas, which is from aevum, “lifetime.” The word aetas is remarkably similar to the name Aïdes, i.e. Hades. Eve, you see, is not Adam’s wife but Adam’s father, Zeus bronnton, Zeus “the thunderer/earthshaker,” Poseidon, the fallen — or, better still, suspended, mediating — aspect of God!
— Eric Bredesen, Mythology & History
Inside a wool jacket the man had made a pocket for the treasure and from time to time he would jiggle the pocket, just to make sure that it was still there. And when on the train he rode to work he would jiggle it there also, but he would disguise his jiggling of the treasure on the train by devising a distraction. For example, the man would pretend to be profoundly interested in something outside the train, such as the little girl who seemed to be jumping high up on a trampoline, just high enough so that she could spy the man on the train, and in this way he really did become quite interested in what occurred outside the train, although he would still jiggle the treasure, if only out of habit. Also on the train he'd do a crossword puzzle and check his watch by rolling up his sleeve; when he did so he almost fell asleep. Antoine often felt his life to be more tedious with this treasure, because in order not to be overly noticed he had deemed it wise to fall into as much a routine as possible and do everything as casually as possible, and so, as a consequence, despite the fact that he hated his wife and daughter, he didn't leave them, he came home to them every night and he ate the creamed chicken that his wife would prepare for him, he would accept the large, fleshy hand that would push him around while he sat around in his house in an attempt to read or watch the weather, he took out the trash, he got up on time every morning and took a quick, cold shower, he shaved, he accepted the cold eggs and orange juice and coffee, he picked the newspaper off the patio and took it inside with him to read her the top headlines, and of course he went to the job.
— Justin Dobbs
In order to witness clearly the march of humanity from its inception to the present moment, an understanding of how humankind has held encounter with the divine as central is crucial. Ancient humanity provides us with an excellent laboratory for gaining such an understanding.
— Roger D. Woodard
Sitting down on the stairs, Cheyenne watched Behr through the slats in the railing. She liked what she saw. Covered in a fine sheen of perspiration, muscles swollen from what was clearly a grueling workout, Behr’s toned physique was a serious distraction from her worries, making her content to just sit and watch. Each thump of his fist into the bag resonated in her bones. Each kick of his leg thundered in her ears. Every move seemed to be in time with the harsh sounds of the music pumping through the room, until he was a frenzy of movement. It was frighteningly beautiful. Standing, Cheyenne called out to him. “Behr? Are you hungry?” She was feeling a little peckish herself, and she needed something to keep her hands busy. Between a combination of brutal punches, knee jabs and the music, Behr didn’t hear a word she said. So she decided to go to him. Winding her way through equipment and stepping over the discarded sweaty T-shirt, Cheyenne approached him. Waiting for the right moment to interrupt, she tapped him on the shoulder during a brief pause. Big mistake. Huge.
— Brandi Salazar, A Warrior's Betrayal
She was prepared for him to shut her down, when Behr shrugged a shoulder and said, “Yeah, sounds good. I think it’s a good idea for you to get out of the house. But,” he said, stepping back into the kitchen and leveling her with a hard look, “only if I tag along.” “What? Why?” Cheyenne questioned, not understanding the need for chaperones. “Because it’s safer that way,” he reasoned. “I have a couple things to take care of first, so it will probably be a day or two. I expect you to wait for me, though, Cheyenne,” he said, his brilliant blue eyes holding her in place. “It’s safer that way.”She was preparing to argue when she realized that she wasn’t altogether sure she wanted to venture out on her own yet anyway. It might be a shock to her system after locking herself away for so long. For laughs, she decided to give him a hard time anyway. “But…” she started. He cut her off with an upraised hand. “No buts,” he said sternly. “It’s not safe and you know it, and besides, that’s what you have two strapping young men like us for.” He clapped a grinning Dehstroy on the back. Cheyenne threw her head back and laughed. “You, young? Ha!”“What?” Behr said, acting offended. “I’m young.”“Prove it,” Cheyenne challenged. “Show me your birth certificate.” When he pursed his lips, she laughed some more. “What’s wrong? Didn’t they make birth certificates yet when you were born? No?” She looked between the men, taking in their sheepish expressions. “Well, then. I’ll leave you two to work on clearing that schedule.” Waving, Cheyenne left the kitchen and headed upstairs to her room to lie down.
— Brandi Salazar, A Warrior's Betrayal
I had to find Mr. Brentwood. And I had to save him. Zeus, Inc. had saved the world 50 years ago when we had depleted our energy resources. The very same Zeus, Inc. that now powered a majority of the known world. And that power had come from the man himself. Without him? We would all be plunged into total darkness, knocked back to the literal dark ages. Chaos could and probably would ensue.
— Robin Burks, Zeus, Inc.
I quickly dropped my hands and changed the subject. "So those two who visited me the other night. Who were they?" I asked.He smiled, knowingly. "Ares and Aphrodite."Of course, I thought. In fact, I think I had already sort of figured that out. Although in my mind they were still Mr. Scowly Face and Miss Perfect Bitch. I found those the names I had given them much more appropriate
— Robin Burks, Zeus, Inc.
Just another part of that Spartan killer instinct. I can slay the ladies just as well as I can reapers.
— Jennifer Estep, Crimson Frost
the dank night is sweeping down from the skyand the setting stars incline our heads to sleep.
— Virgil
The signs of the old flame, I know them well.I pray that the earth gape deep enough to take me downor the almighty Father blast me with one bolt to the shades,the pale, glimmering shades in hell, the pit of night,before I dishonor you, my conscience, break your laws.
— Virgil
..and why the winter suns so rush to bathe themselves in the seaand what slows down the nights to a long lingering crawl...
— Virgil, The Aeneid
*to thor* Zeus had replied that he had pulled fluffballs of lint out of his bellybutton that were bigger than Asgard
— Eoin Colfer
Can Christian preaching expect modern man to accept the mythical view of the world as true? To do so would be both senseless and impossible. It would be senseless, because there is nothing specifically Christian in the mythical view of the world as such. It is simply the cosmology of a pre-scientific age.
— Rudolf Karl Bultmann
...And I wish that while walking in your life's lane, you come across and walk with dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground. Let all the positive spirit & energies of this universe come together this way, your way, making every journey of your life most beautiful, fulfilling and prideful. Let the world feel blessed and continue to get better by touch of your elegance.
— smishra
There are a lot of bad things out there. Things the Hounds of Heaven werecreated to destroy." He trailed his finger down the side of my face. "I can't be the hero you wantme to be--at least not in that way. But you can, Grace. You don't have to become one of the darkones. You can fight it. You can turn this curse into a blessing. You can become the hero. Youcan become truly divine.
— Bree Despain, The Dark Divine
Not so on Man; him through their malice fall'n,Father of Mercy and Grace, thou didst not doomSo strictly, but much more to pity incline:No sooner did thy dear and only SonPerceive thee purpos'd not to doom frail ManSo strictly, but much more to pity inclin'd,He to appease thy wrath, and end the strifeOf mercy and Justice in thy face discern'd,Regardless of the Bliss wherein hee satSecond to thee, offer'd himself to dieFor man's offence. O unexampl'd love,Love nowhere to be found less than Divine!Hail Son of God, Saviour of Men, thy NameShall be the copious matter of my SongHenceforth, and never shall my Harp thy praiseForget, nor from thy Father's praise disjoin.
— John Milton, Paradise Lost
Divine does not tempt us to see what's in our hearts, it tempts us so we could see what's in our hearts.
— Aleksandra Ninkovic, Write like no one is reading
When Heaven has an earthquake you fall to your knees and feel through the rubble to find the pieces of God. When my eternal, temple-blessed marriage shattered and everything that had been meaningful lay in jumbled shards around me, I had to slowly and carefully pick up every single piece and examine it, turning it over and over, to see if it was worthy to keep and to use in building a new house of meaning. As I gathered the broken pieces of God, I used only my own authority, only my own relationship with the divine, and the good, small voice that speaks inside me, to appraise them. I threw away many, and I kept many, assembling the bright pieces into One Great Thought. I asked only, "Do I see God's fingerprints on this? Does this little piece feel godly? Does it speak of love?" That made it easy. I was forever finished with the insane attempt to love a God who hurts me. When I picked up the little pieces of God-ordained polygamy, I smiled because there was no question. I thanked the God of Love, and threw that piece away.
— Carol Lynn Pearson, The Ghost of Eternal Polygamy: Haunting the Hearts and Heaven of Mormon Women and Men
She treats herself as if she is a divine worm born of sand and stone.
— Chuck Wendig, Empire's End
Let me breathe You in,Let me taste the meaning of sublime;Let my soul mingle with You,Let me be one with divine!
— Neelam Saxena Chandra
The feet and their tappingWrite many a lovely coupletThe body dances to your rhythm O lordAfter all, you are the master and I a puppet
— Neelam Saxena Chandra
women are Gods, women are the life-breath
— Loriliai Biernacki, Renowned Goddess of Desire: Women, Sex, and Speech in Tantra
To create is to be divine.
— Jeffrey Fry
Her name, said the Oracle, will this time be Ama, a female that sleeps in every one of us, Yin of Creation, a wisdom guide that with her purity extinguishes thirst for spiritual longings. She is the one that stands on a crescent moon with stars in her hair, pouring water from jars of her soul into lakes of emotions, awakening compassion for humankind and its Chaos, nourishing Earth and Her constant renewal.
— Nataša Nuit Pantović, A-Ma Alchemy of Love
To be motivated by divine love is to see your promise land as a platform to share the love of God with others
— Sunday Adelaja
God’s Jewish nation did not understand his divine priority for the kingdom
— Sunday Adelaja
Everywhere, even in the blackest abyss, he believed one might witness the divine. The shadows and contrast―absence itself―as important as the light and marble, for one cannot exist without the other.
— Eowyn Ivey, To The Bright Edge of the World
In all human cultures, the social world has two clear dimensions: a horizontal dimension of closeness or liking, and a vertical one of hierarchy or status. . . . Now imagine yourself happily moving around your two-dimensional social world, a flat land where the X axis is closeness and the Y axis is hierarchy. Then one day, you see a person do something extraordinary, or you have an overwhelming experience of natural beauty , and you feel lifted “up.” But it is not the “up” of hierarchy, it’s some other kind of elevation. This chapter is about that vertical movement. My claim is that the human mind perceives a third dimension, a specifically moral dimension that I will call “divinity.
— Jonathan Haidt
Become a vessel for the divine.
— Amy Ippoliti, The Art and Business of Teaching Yoga: The Yoga Professional's Guide to a Fulfilling Career
Consider the Divine Life as the most important thing to obtain.
— The Mother, Words of the Mother - II
The Word of God is not divine, it is an attribute of The Divine.
— Ibrahim Ibrahim, Quotable: My Worldview
We are all Divine instruments of God. All we have to do is ask Him which music to play...
— Maximus Freeman
Beneath the instinct to fight there lurks a diviner instinct to love.
— Inazo Nitobe, Bushido: The Soul of Japan. A Classic Essay on Samurai Ethics
But if they called everything divine which they do not understand, why, there would be no end of divine beings.
— Carl Sagan, Cosmos
Pure intellect – that is mental – individualism. But the real knowledge – To know that I am all these. In such a manner every human being is so. What is this divine intellect? It is happening spontaneously in Nature and we are merely the seers. We cannot conceive this phenomenon.
— Sri Jibankrishna or Diamond
Leaving the world without keeping an heirloom is a degradation of the divine purpose.
— Michael Bassey Johnson, The Infinity Sign
To stop working, striving and pushing, just because you have enough, therefore is a disservice to the Divine.
— Sunday Adelaja
I am an expression of the divine, just like a peach is, just like a fish is.
— Alice Walker, The Color Purple
You may ask for anything, but God will only give you what fits in His divine plan. John 14:14
— Felix Wantang, God's Blueprint of the Holy Bible
I wanted to bathe in plum juice, rediscover my body and adorn it in kiwi circles.
— Aimee Bender, Willful Creatures
Whenever you want to know what’s wrong or missing in your inner relationship with the Divine, stop, breathe deeply, and observe how is your relationship with the opposite sex.
— Nityananda Das, Divine Union
Divine love is limitless and the source of miracles.
— Leta B., Your Steady Soul: May you transform your pain, anger, and hurt into wisdom, kindness, and love.
People who believe their god loves them unconditionally are less able to be controlled through divine terrorism.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
Very little in any organized faith is truly original. Religions are not born from scratch. They grow from one another. Modern religion is a collage ... an assimilated historical record of man's quest to understand the divine.
— Dan Brown, Angels & Demons
Many are the noble words in which poets speak concerning the actions of men; but like yourself when speaking about Homer, they do not speak of them by any rules of art: they are simply inspired to utter that to which the Muse impels them, and that only; and when inspired, one of them will make dithyrambs, another hymns of praise, another choral strains, another epic or iambic verses- and he who is good at one is not good any other kind of verse: for not by art does the poet sing, but by power divine.
— Plato, Ion
There is something divine in mindless beauty.
— Albert Camus, A Happy Death
Life is a ritual of loveLife is a ritual of union, and Life is a dance of the divine
— Vishwas Chavan, SoulBliss: a poetic tale of cosmic love
Mention but the word "divinity," and our sense of the divine is clouded.
— Samuel Butler, Erewhon
My hearts desired divine twins, My guardian angels,Jeremias-Jean Joachim AkitaLia-Lachelle Lisette Akita
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The miracle of birth is divine.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
In every human act of charity, something larger, greater, divine has come down to visit the act.
— Geoffrey Wood
Ruby describes the decorations at the banquet. 'It was like little gardens of rhapsody on every table. It was divine.
— Lynne Branard, The Art of Arranging Flowers
We can be amazed at man not only because he is a person, not only because he's made in the image of God, but also because, by the Incarnation, human nature itself has been raised to a divine dignity.
— Michael Gaitley, The One Thing Is Three: How the Most Holy Trinity Explains Everything
In the divine Scriptures, there are shallows and there are deeps; shallows where the lamb may wade, and deeps where the elephant may swim.
— John Owen
It is because I know all that science can bring to the world that I shall continue my efforts to ensure that it contributes to the happiness of all men, whether they be white, black, or yellow, and not to their annihilation in the name of some divine mission or other.
— Frédéric Joliot-Curie
In order to get over the ethical difficulties presented by the naive naturalism of many parts of those Scriptures, in the divine authority of which he firmly believed, Philo borrowed from the Stoics (who had been in like straits in respect of Greek mythology), that great Excalibur which they had forged with infinite pains and skill—the method of allegorical interpretation. This mighty 'two-handed engine at the door' of the theologian is warranted to make a speedy end of any and every moral or intellectual difficulty, by showing that, taken allegorically or, as it is otherwise said, 'poetically' or, 'in a spiritual sense,' the plainest words mean whatever a pious interpreter desires they should mean.
— Thomas Henry Huxley, The Evolution Of Theology: An Anthropological Study
Break my mirror-heart into a thousand pieces my beloved, so that to the world i may proudly flaunt your thousand reflections
— Sushrut A. Badhe
Nothing about me is "deep", but my divine creator is so.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
I've been offered proof of God's existence at regular intervals in my life through experiences so profound they've given goose bumps to atheists.
— Jennifer Skiff, God Stories: Inspiring Encounters with the Divine
...I learned that God was an equal opportunity employer—that it was possible to experience the divine anywhere you were, anywhere you could see the sun and moon rise or set, or burn through the fog.
— Anne Lamott, Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith
No despotism, no privileged monopolies, no police societies, no divine rights of the emirs or feudal landlords or shady priests and sheikhs. All had the same equal footing—the rich and the poor, the noble and the common.
— Rami Ollaik, The Bees Road
With little going for me other than unstoppable eagerness, a sense of total commitment, and a stubborn refusal to give up on what felt like a divinely ordained scheme, I cast myself upon the waters of the world’s oceans.
— Roz Savage
When you see a heron eating an innocent rabbit, what comes to your mind? Do you say ‘What a great order God has created?’ or you say ‘What a devilish horror is going on here!’ Question your beliefs! If the strong eats the weak, there is absolutely nothing divine in here, but there is only injustice and nightmare!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
I believe all women know in their heart of hearts that they truly are divine and magical, even if they've temporarily forgotten.
— Kelly Cutrone, If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You
Many are called, few are chosen.
— Paul Hoffman, The Last Four Things
Faith is divine. Apostles (in many cases) are the devil
— Guy Harduf
Independent will is our capacity to act. It gives us the power to transcend our paradigms, to swim upstream, to rewrite our scripts, to act based on principle rather than reacting based on emotion or circumstance.
— Stephen R. Covey
You can succeed at almost anything for which you have unbridled enthusiasm.
— Zig Ziglar
Winners dont do different things They do things differently
— Shiv Kera
Be Your Best Without the Stress!Be the director and actor in your movie, called My Life.
— Katrina Radke
If you want to be successful, how you show up to life matters.
— Susan C. Young, The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact
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— Lance Allred
Im 5 ft 1 ½. That bonus ½ is just as important because every little bit matters
— Janna Cachola
A mind that is determined to succeed can never fail to achieve.
— Harsh Malik
What God wants for us is always what's best for us - we just need to trust Him.
— Lindsey Rietzsch, Successful Failures: Recognizing the Divine Role That Opposition Plays in Life's Quest for Success
As a society, let's all strive to make "old fashioned" the "new fashion". Husbands make it clear to your wives that you are on a mission to become her knight in shining armor.
— Lindsey Rietzsch, Successful Failures: Recognizing the Divine Role That Opposition Plays in Life's Quest for Success
(Answers to life) - You don't have to have it all figured out by a certain age or time in your life. It will come in bits and pieces along the way.
— Lindsey Rietzsch, Successful Failures: Recognizing the Divine Role That Opposition Plays in Life's Quest for Success
It's not about what you accomplish - it's about what you take away from your experiences and how you handle them.
— Lindsey Rietzsch, Successful Failures: Recognizing the Divine Role That Opposition Plays in Life's Quest for Success
Marriage is the most sacred union in which much respect is given in society to those who treat it as such.
— Lindsey Rietzsch, How to Date Your Spouse: A Couple's Guide to Falling and Staying in Love
Heartfelt communicators make such a difference in the lives of others through their authentic depth and sincere expression.
— Miya Yamanouchi, Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women
Information is the most valuable commodity on the surface of the earth.
— Adedayo Olabamiji
We don't know what we can achieve because no instruction manual accompanies our birth
— Asoka Nimal Jinadasa
If you don't have the courage to confront, you don't have the right to complain.Don't wait until anger gives you the courage!
— Debra Fox, Finding Your Moxie: Myths and Lies Successful Women Kick to the Curb
Do we follow the road life’s placed before us? Or do we dare step up and forge an exceptional path. A path fraught with struggle and sacrifice, Yet one whose outcome places us in destiny’s arms.
— Christopher Babson, Breakout Presentations: Wow! People in Business and Life
It is not the size of a person in the fight, but the size of the fight in a person is what determines victory.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Leadership reveals itself in the big moments, but is forged in the small. It is the exponential and compounding product of our many incremental behaviors and actions; all of which arise out of our choices in values, beliefs & emotions. Choices all. Not a one is thrust upon us.
— Christopher Babson, Breakout Presentations: Wow! People in Business and Life
Dream and act HUGE my friends
—  for to do less is to deny who you are. And live with BOLD conviction – as you move forcefully into the certainty of your great success!
But I've strayed so far from normal now, I'll never find my way back. And the truth is, I no longer want to.
— Alyson Noel, Saving Zoë
The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.
— Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
He lingered at the door, and said, 'The Lion wants courage, the Tin Man a heart, and the Scarecrow brains. Dorothy wants to go home. What do you wan
— Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Here was a new generation, shouting the old cries, learning the old creeds, through a revery of long days and nights; destined finally to go out into that dirty gray turmoil to follow love and pride; a new generation dedicated more than the last to the fear of poverty and the worship of success; grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken...
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
So I have just one wish for you – the good luck to be somewhere where you are free to maintain the kind of integrity I have described, and where you do not feel forced by a need to maintain your position in the organization, or financial support, or so on, to lose your integrity. May you have that freedom.
— Richard Feynman, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
You're stressing too much about what might be. Do something to take your mind off thinking about what might never happen.
— Simone Elkeles, Leaving Paradise
What work do I have to do then?" said Will, but went on at once, "No, on second thought, don't tell me. I shall decide what I do. If you say my work is fighting, or healing, or exploring, or whatever you might say, I'll always be thinking about it. And if I do end up doing that, I'll be resentful because it'll feel as if I didn't have a choice, and if I don't do it, I'll feel guilty because I should. Whatever I do, I will choose it, no one else.
— Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass
Information is a lot like water; it's hard to hold on to, and hard to keep from leaking away.
— Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being
It's just like John Mayer says in "Slow Dancing in a Burning Room". When it's this bad, you have to get out or you'll get burned.
— Susane Colasanti, Waiting for You
When someone dies, it feels like the hole in your gum when a tooth falls out. You can chew, you can eat, youhave plenty of other teeth, but your tongue keeps going back to that empty place, where all the nerves are still a little raw.
— Jodi Picoult
She said, "Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don't need?" I said, "It depends on what it means to need.
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
He’d only ever seen a gun once, a smaller one on the hip of that old deputy, a gun he’d always figured was more for show. He stuffed a fistful of deadly rounds in his pocket, thinking how each one could end an individual life, and understanding why such things were forbidden. Killing a man should be harder than waving a length of pipe in their direction. It should take long enough for one’s conscience to get in the way.
— Hugh Howey, Wool Omnibus
Do you think it is better to fail at something worthwhile, or succeed at something meaningless
— Tommy Wallach, We All Looked Up
This is how everything should end: with the forgotten remembered, the wounded healed, and the sinners forgiven.
— Jenny Hollowell
Lead us not into temptation' often means, among other things, 'Deny me those gratifying invitations, those highly interesting contacts, that participation in the brilliant movements of our age, which I so often, at such risk, de
— C.S. Lewis, Reflections on the Psalms
Over the course of your life you are actually hundreds of different people. You are a different person at the coffee shop than you are at the bar, and a different person for the dry cleaner than you are for your boyfriend, and a different person at work than you are on vacation. You are nobody in particular. But once somebody finds you and loves you, you have to keep being the person that they love. You want thier love. You need to keep getting it even if it means pretending...but no one loved her and so she could keep changing.
— Jenny Hollowell, Everything Lovely, Effortless, Safe
I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one and the same. For my entire life I longed for love. I knew it was not right for me - as a girl and later as a woman - to want or expect it, but I did, and this unjustified desire has been at the root of every problem I have experienced in my life.
— Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Call it professional interest. You see, Jessamine, love is a kind of poison; one of my favorite kinds, in fact. It infects the blood; it takes over the mind; it seizes dominion over the body. It amuses me to think of him pining for you. Aching for what he cannot have. The loneliness in his soul is festering like a wound. There is nothing I could do for him that is worse that what you have already done, my lovely. And I assure you, in his case there will be no cure.
— Maryrose Wood, The Poison Diaries
I missed the future.
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
There is a saying that "paper is more patient than man";it came back to me on one of my slightly melancholy days,while I sat chin in hand,feeling too bored and limp even to make up my mind whether to go out or stay at home. Yes, there is no doubt that paper is patient and as I don't intend to show this cardboard-covered notebook,bearing the proud name of"diary",to anyone,unless I find a real friend,boy or girl,probably nobody cares.And now I come to the root of the matter,the reason for my starting a diary:it is that I have no such real friend. Let me put it more clearly,since no one will believe that a girl of thirteen feels herself quite alone in the world,nor is it so.I have darling parents and a sister of sixteen.I know about thirty people whom one might call friends--I have strings of boy friends,anxious to catch a glimpse of me and who,failing that,peep at me through mirrors in class.I have relations,aunts and uncles,who are darlings too,a good home,no--I don't seem to lack anything.But it's the same with all my friends,just fun and joking,nothing more.I can never bring myself to talk of anything outside the common round.We don't seem to be able to get any closer,that is the root of the trouble.Perhaps I lack confidence,but anyway,there it is,a stubborn fact and I don't seem to be able to do anything about it.
— Anne Frank, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
The impoverished always try to keep moving, as if relocating might help. They ignore the reality that a new version of the same old problem will be waiting at the end of the trip- the relative you cringe to kiss.
— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
...People would make the decisions they wished to make and some of them would hurt both themselves and those who loved them, and some would pass unnoticed, while others would bring joy.
— Rachel Joyce, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Then we are living in a place abandoned by God," I said, disheartened."Have you found any places where God would have felt at home?" William asked me, looking down from his great height.
— Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
‎"Tell me, sir, what is a butterfly?""It's what you are meant to become. It flies with beautiful wings and joins the earth to heaven. It drinks only nectar from the flowers and carries the seeds of love from one flower to another. Without butterflies, the world would soon have few flowers.
— Trina Paulus, Hope for the Flowers
And if anyone asks, you're Chinese. The boy had nodded. "Chinese," he whispered. "I'm Chinese." "And I," said the girl, "am the Queen of Spain." "In your dreams," said the boy. "In my dreams," said the girl, "I'm the King.
— Julie Otsuka, When the Emperor Was Divine
I suddenly began to realize that everybody in America is a natural-born thief.
— Jack Kerouac, On the Road
I have no fear, I have only love
— Stevie Nicks
You flesh bodies are so obsessed with goodness, yet no other form of life on earth is capable of such cruelty. You need only convince yourselves your transgressions serve some 'purpose.' Even if it is only greed, or lust, or the raw desire for power that drives you. You will spill the blood of your kinsmen, lay waste to the earth itself, wreak havoc, and cause unspeakable suffering---any and all sins are justified, as long as they are a means to your precous, righteous 'purpose'.
— Maryrose Wood, The Poison Diaries
Sometimes I wonder if any of us are cut out for the lives we lead.
— Rebecca Wells, Little Altars Everywhere
It's not," Mormont told him. "Gods save us, boy, you're not blind and you're not stupid. When dead men come hunting in the night, do you think it matters who sits the Iron Throne?
— George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
If blue helmeted UN peacekeepers show up in your town or village and offer to protect you, run.
— Andrew Thomson, Emergency Sex (And Other Desperate Measures): True Stories from a War Zone
Coincidence is the word we use when we can't see the levers and pulleys.
— Emma Bull
As for fame, fame felt like nothing. Fame was not a sensation like love or hunger or loneliness, welling from within and invisible to the outside eye. It was rather entirely external, coming from the minds of others. It existed in the way people looked at him or behaved towards him. In that, being famous was no different from being gay, or Jewish, or from a visible minority: you are who you are, and then people project onto you some notion they have.
— Yann Martel, Beatrice and Virgil
The party in Alobar’s head, which agitation and anxiety were throwing, now was crashed by a notion: existence can be rearranged.
— Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume
Before you bombed my boy Osama I always thought an explosion was such a quick thing but now I know better. The flash is over very fast but the fire catches hold inside you and the noise never stops…I live in an inferno where you could shiver with cold Osama. This life is a deafening roar but listen. You could hear a pin drop.
— Chris Cleave, Incendiary
BAIT GOATThere is a distance where magnets pull, we feel, having held them back. Likewise there is a distance where words attract. Set one out like a bait goat and wait and seven others will approach. But watch out: roving packs can pull your word away. You find your stake yanked and some rough bunch to thank.
— Kay Ryan, The Best of It: New and Selected Poems
When something terrible happens, a lifetime of small events and unremarkable decisions, of unresolved anger, and unexplored fears begins to play itself out in ways you least expect. You've been going along from one day to the next, not realizing that all those disparate words and gestures were adding up to something, a conclusion, you didn't anticipate. And later, when you begin to retrace your steps you see that you will need to reach back further than you could have imagined, beyond words and thoughts and even dreams, perhaps to make sense of what happened.
— Christina Baker Kline
...the long train ride was like traveling through limbo. You weren't anywhere when you were on a train, she decided. You weren't where you had been, and you weren't yet where you were going. You were nowhere. It might be beautiful outside the window-and it was, she had sense enough to realize that-but it wasn't anywhere to her, just a scene passing by that was framed by the train window. (p160)
— Katherine Paterson
It was very bad if the council had resorted to recruiting men. By tradition men were our last line of defence, their physical strength bent towards the single and most important task of protecting our homes and children. This meant the council had decided that our only defence was to defeat the enemy, period. Anything else meant the end of Darre.
— N.K. Jemisin, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
...I just gave up trying to be a Christian... Let's face it, I ain't got the knack for holiness. Besides, I didn't have the slightest little desire to join the likes of Reverend Pelham at the dinner table for fourteen minutes, much less at the banquet table of Heaven eternally. Eternity is a mighty long time to be stuck with people who judge every word you say and think and condemn most of what you do. It struck me as pretty miserable company. And if Reverend Pelham was the kind of company God preferred to keep, well, I just hoped they'd be happy together.
— Katherine Paterson, Preacher's Boy
Have you ever been in a conflict with someone who thought he was wrong. If you are not wrong, then you will be willing to consider how you might be mistaken.
— The Arbinger Institute, The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict
They Were all clad in the same uniform of misery and filth. For all of time, for all of eternity
— James Riordan, War Song