Goddess Quotes - Page 6

• I should know, for I am Morgaine le Fay, priestess of the Isle of Avalon, where the ancient religion of the Mother Goddess is born.

  Marion Zimmer Bradley

  Mother, Avalon, Ancient

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• Alas," said Aslan, shaking his head. "It will. Things always work according to their nature. She has won her heart's desire; she has unwearying strength and endless days like a goddess. But length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery and already she begins to know it. All get what they want; they do not always like it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Heart, Evil, Desire

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Chronicles of Narnia Complete 7-Book Collection with Bonus Book: Boxen”, p.98, Harper Collins

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• Men are always doomed to be duped, not so much by the arts of the other as by their own imagination. They are always wooing goddesses, and marrying mere mortals.

  Washington Irving

  Art, Men, Imagination

  Washington Irving (1834). “The Complete Works of Washington Irving in One Volume”, p.362

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• Empathy for the plight of the Goddess may be essential in seeing how to face our own plight on Earth.

  John Lamb Lash

  Empathy, Essentials, Plight

  John Lamb Lash (2006). “Not in His Image: Gnostic Vision, Sacred Ecology, and the Future of Belief”, p.209, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• As the spring comes on, and the densening outlines of the elm give daily a new design for a Grecian urn, — its hue, first brown with blossoms, then emerald with leaves, — we appreciate the vanishing beauty of the bare boughs. In our favored temperate zone, the trees denude themselves each year, like the goddesses before Paris, that we may see which unadorned loveliness is the fairest.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Spring, Years, Paris

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1863). “Out-door Papers”, p.238

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• Read as much as you can, discarding negative or disturbing information. Learn by doing, and the Goddess and God will bless you with all that you truly need.

  Scott Cunningham

  God, Religious, Reading

  Scott Cunningham (2010). “Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner”, p.32, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• Let's not forget that in India the symbol of strength is a woman; the goddess Shakti.

  Indira Gandhi

  India, Forget, Shakti

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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• There are two goddesses in your heart,” he told them. “The Goddess of Wisdom and the Goddess of Wealth. Everyone thinks they need to get wealth first, and wisdom will come. So they concern themselves with chasing money. But they have it backwards. You have to give your heart to the Goddess of Wisdom, give her all your love and attention, and the Goddess of Wealth will become jealous, and follow you.” Ask nothing from your running, in other words, and you’ll get more than you ever imagined.

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Jealous, Heart

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• In Bengal, Hindus are known to crack jokes at the expense of their gods and goddesses and that's what I did.

  Sunil Gangopadhyaya

  Cracks, Gods And Goddesses, Expenses

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• For me, all mother in the world are my goddesses.

  Yoseob

  Mother, World

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• Time, for example, is intimately connected with the goddess Kali, which partly accounts for her destructive nature. Energy - in Einstein's equation, E=MC2 - is personified in India as Shakti in her various guises.

  Roger Housden

  Energy, India, Example

  Roger Housden (1996). “Travels Through Sacred India”, Thorsons Pub

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• I use the words gods and goddesses principally, I think, to mean beautiful bodies - bodies that are absolute instruments. And I believe in discipline, I believe in a very definite technique.

  Martha Graham

  Beautiful, Believe, Mean

  "Martha Graham Reflects on Her Art and a Life in Dance". archive.nytimes.com. March 31, 1985.

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• When I design a collection I strive to make a woman feel as special as the delicate creation she is wearing; take her to an enchanted time and place where women are princesses and magnificent goddesses. In today's modern world we need to pause and indulge in beauty.

  Claire Pettibone

  Princess, Indulge In, Design

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• I was always fascinated by fairy stories, fantasy, you know, demons, necromancers, gods and goddesses, everything that is out of our kin and out of our everyday world. I was always interested in enchantment and magicians and still am.

  Christopher Lee

  Fairy Stories, Everyday, Gods And Goddesses

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The hero, whether god or goddess, man or woman, the figure in a myth or the dreamer of a dream discovers and assimilates his opposite (his own unsuspected self) either by swallowing it or by being swallowed.

  Joseph Campbell

  Dream, Hero, Men

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.89, New World Library

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• The temple of the sylvan goddess, indeed, has vanished, and the King of the Wood no longer stands sentinel over the Golden Bough.

  James G. Frazer

  Kings, Woods, Golden

  "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.

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• The greatest pleasures of love are inseparable from its greatest pains: Love has the face of a goddess, but the talons of a lion.

  Ivan Panin

  Anniversary, Pain, Lions

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• The present moment is a powerful goddess.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Time, Powerful

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• All men even, I have written, Jesus Christ began as flecks of tissue inside a woman's womb. Every boy must stagger out of the shadow of a mother goddess, whom he never fully escapes.

  Camille Paglia

  Mother, Jesus, Boys

  "No Law in the Arena: A Pagan Theory of Sexuality". Camille Paglia, Vamps and Tramps, 1994.

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• Also known as May Eve, May Day, and Walpurgis Night, happens at the beginning of May. It celebrates the height of Spring and the flowering of life. The Goddess manifests as the May Queen and Flora. The God emerges as the May King and Jack in the Green. The danced Maypole represents Their unity, with the pole itself being the God and the ribbons that encompass it, the Goddess. Colors are the Rainbow spectrum. Beltane is a festival of flowers, fertility, sensuality, and delight.

  Selena Fox

  Kings, Queens, Spring

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• The fungi became, or is for some mysterious reason still to be discovered, a pipeline into a mind, an entelechy, which we can only image as feminine and can only associate somehow to the environment, to the ecosystem. This is the Gaian mind. This is what the goddess really is. The goddess is a network of connective intelligence that is operating on this planet.

  Terence McKenna

  Ecosystems, Mind, Pipeline

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• You call yourself some kind of goddess and you know nothing, madam, nothing. What don't die can't live. What don't live can't change. What don't change can't learn. The smallest creature that dies in the grass knows more than you.

  Terry Pratchett

  Kind, Grass, Don't Change

  "Lords and Ladies". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1992.

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• Who wants to be a goddess when we can be human? Perfection is a flaw disguised as control.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Perfection, Want, Flaws

  Terry Tempest Williams (2012). “When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice”, p.88, Macmillan

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• In a chariot of light from the region of the day, the Goddess of Liberty came. She brought in her hand as a pledge of her love, the plant she named Liberty Tree.

  Thomas Paine

  Patriotic, Light, July

  Thomas Paine, “Liberty Tree”

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• Can one have love? If we could, love would need to be a thing, a substance that one can have, own, possess. The truth is, there is no such thing as love. Love is an abstraction, perhaps a goddess or an alien being, although nobody has ever seen this goddess. In reality, there exists only the act of loving. To love is a productive activity. It implies caring for, knowing, responding, affirming, enjoying: the person, the tree, the painting, the idea. It means bringing to life, increasing his/her/its aliveness. It is a process, self-renewing and self increasing.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Mean, Caring

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