Godlike Quotes

• After eating chocolate you feel godlike, as though you can conquer enemies, lead armies, entice lovers.

  Emily Luchetti

  Halloween, Food, Army

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• The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

  Helen Keller

  Cancer, Struggle, Blessing

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• Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Strong, Silence, Sorrow

  'Giotto's Tower' (1866)

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• Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.

  Henry Miller

  God, Voice, Imagination

  Henry Miller (2007). “Sexus: The Rosy Crucifixion I”, p.341, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• You put something you like on really loud, and you feel godlike.

  Siobhan Fahey

  Loud, Feels

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• O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!

  Samuel Richardson

  Envy, Rich, Doing Good

  Samuel Richardson, Pamela (fict.name.) (1811). “Pamela; or, Virtue rewarded”, p.281

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• Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.

  Francois Rabelais

  Believe, Heroic, Stewardship

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• To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

  Horace Mann

  Inspiring, Forgiveness, Compassion

  Horace Mann (1845). “Lectures on Education”, p.297

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• It is godlike ever to think on something beautiful and on something new.

  Democritus

  Happiness, Beautiful, Thinking

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• In love's God-like breathing, there's the innermost aspect of the universe.

  Alexander Scriabin

  Love, Breathing, Aspect

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• The transformation scene, where man is becoming insect and insect has become at least man and beyond that - a flying, godlike, shimmering, diaphanous, beautiful creature.

  Michael O'Donoghue

  Beautiful, Men, Flying

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• It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

  Arnold Bennett

  Friendship, God, Judging

  Arnold Bennett (2015). “Mental Efficiency: Top of Bennett”, p.13, 谷月社

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• We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

  Abraham Maslow

  Fear, Peak Experiences, Aspect

  Attributed to Abraham Maslow by Toni Galardi in The LifeQuake Phenomenon: How to Thrive (Not Just Survive) in Times of Personal and Global Upheaval, 2009.

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• It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

  Diogenes

  Men, Littles, Privilege

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• Every time we watch over one another, godlike qualities of love, patience, kindness, generosity, and spiritual commitment fill the souls of those we visit and enlarge our souls as well.

  Bonnie D. Parkin

  Spiritual, Kindness, Commitment

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• The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Sports, Believe, Games

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• And truly it demands something godlike in him who cast off the common motives of humanity and ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Courage, Humanity, Individuality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.51

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• While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe.

  Friedrich Schiller

  God, Self, Demand

  Friedrich Schiller (2012). “On the Aesthetic Education of Man”, p.81, Courier Corporation

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• Since every mortal power of Coleridge Was frozen at its marvellous source, The rapt one, of the godlike forehead, The heaven-eyed creature sleeps in earth: And Lamb, the frolic and the gentle, Has vanished from his lonely hearth.

  William Wordsworth

  Lonely, Loneliness, Sleep

  'Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg' (1835)

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• The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Love Life, Vanity, Intellectual

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1940). “The wave of the future: a confession of faith”

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• I love performing. I can get to be that person I always wanted to be - godlike.

  Nick Cave

  Performing, Wanted, Persons

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• We evaluate others with a Godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a Godlike compassion.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Compassion, Justice, Judging

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• Calmness is always godlike.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Calm, Calmness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.530, Harvard University Press

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• A man is a little thing whilst he works by and for himself, but, when he gives voice to the rules of love and justice, is godlike, his word is current in all countries; and all men, though his enemies, are made his friends and obey it as their own.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Men, Voice

  "Emerson's Works".

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• All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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