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Famous Ancients Quotes

The Gods are but names for the forces of Nature themselves. β€” Aleister Crowley

Gods have bloody hands. β€” Janet Morris

Gods always behave like the people who make them. - Zora Neale Hurston

Gods always behave like the people who make them. β€” Zora Neale Hurston

where are the gods the gods hate us the gods have run away the gods have hidden in holes the gods are dead of the plague they rot and stink too there never were any gods there’s only death β€” Ted Hughes

In ancient times cats were worshiped as gods; they have not forgotten this. β€” Terry Pratchett

The gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies... they are the trees and the plants and the seeds. β€” Plato

The ways of the gods are long, but in the end they are not without strength. β€” Euripides

Dear Ones, Beware of the tiny gods frightened men Create To bring anesthetic relief to their sad days β€” Hafez

with the breakdown of the medieval system, the gods of chaos, lunacy, and bad taste gained ascendancy. β€” John Kennedy Toole

In the beginning, people prayed to the Creatress of Life, the Mistress of Heaven. At the very dawn of religion, God was a woman. Do you remember? β€” Merlin Stone

The Gods cannot help those who do not seize opportunities. β€” Confucius

The groves were God's first temples. β€” William C. Bryant

Short Ancients Quotes

  • I am neither a child, a young man, nor an ancient; nor am I of any caste. β€” Guru Nanak
  • I have a high art, I hurt with cruelty those who would damage me. β€” Archilochus
  • Ancient Hawaiians say: When you're itching for the waves, the only lotion is the ocean. β€” Josip Broz Tito
  • Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients. β€” Hippocrates
  • Sex and sleep alone make me conscious that I am mortal. β€” Alexander The Great
  • Love is no assignment for cowards. β€” Ovid
  • Be as you wish to seem. β€” Socrates
  • No friend ever served me, and no enemy ever wronged me, whom I have not repaid in full. β€” Sulla
  • Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid. β€” Harrison Ford
  • Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie. β€” Steven Pressfield

Ancients Image Quotes

Where our work is, there let our joy be. - Tertullian quote

Where our work is, there let our joy be. β€” Tertullian

Atlantis was destroyed by the greed of its inhabitants. - Frederick Lenz quote

Atlantis was destroyed by the greed of its inhabitants. β€” Frederick Lenz

Ancients quote Ancient lovers believed a kiss would literally unite their souls, because the spirit was said to be
Ancient lovers believed a kiss would literally unite their souls, because the spirit was said to be carried in one's breath.

Ancient Greek Quotes

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. β€” Pericles

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners. β€” Vladimir Lenin

As the ancient Greeks replaced myth-based explanations with mechanistic models of the Solar System, their emphasis shifted from asking why to asking how. β€” Max Tegmark

The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence. β€” John F. Kennedy

We look at the ancient Greeks with their gods on a mountain top throwing lightning bolts and say, 'Those ancient Greeks. They were so silly. So primitive and naive. Not like our religions. We have burning bushes talking to people and guys walking on water. We're ...sophisticated.' β€” Paul Provenza

Chaos does not mean total disorder. Chaos means a multiplicity of possibilities. Chaos is from the ancient Greek words that means a thing that is birthed from the void. And it was about that which is possible, not about disorder. β€” Jok Church

He is the richest who is content with the least. β€” Socrates

Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend's success without envy. β€” Aeschylus

Of all the small nations of this earth, perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind. β€” Winston Churchill

The old Lie:Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori. β€” Wilfred Owen

Pagan Gods Quotes

All who die by the way, whether by land or by sea, or in battle against the pagans, shall have immediate remission of sins. This I grant them through the power of God with which I am invested. β€” Pope Urban II

The voice of the Great Spirit is heard in the twittering of birds, the rippling of mighty waters, and the sweet breathing of flowers. β€” Zitkala-Sa

Europe has resurrected its pagan gods. β€” Subhash Kak

I haven't been baptised. My dad's not in the church and is not a religious person. My mum is more spiritual - she does Thai-chi and goes to Stonehenge and things like that. I'm proud to be pagan. Finland is not really a religious country. I'm still looking for my god. β€” Ville Valo

Our generation is lost to the truth of God, to the reality of divine revelation, to the content of God's will, to the power of His redemption, and to the authority of His Word. For this loss it is paying dearly in a swift relapse into paganism. β€” Carl F. H. Henry

In varying degrees and and upon different levels all gods and goddesses represent aspects of One God Which is both 'male' and 'female'. β€” Dion Fortune

Call upon the Goddess and God to protect you and teach you the secrets of magic. Ask stones and plants to reveal their powers - and listen. β€” Scott Cunningham

Then each of you will control his own body and live in holiness and honor- not in lustful passion like the pagans who do not know God and his ways. β€” Paul the Apostle

No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever. β€” Daniel J. Boorstin

Today, on our own turf, we face pagan ignorance about God every bit as deep as that which the early church faced in the Roman Empire. β€” J. I. Packer

Roman Gods Quotes

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds β€” Paul the Apostle

If God is for us, who can be against us? β€” Paul the Apostle

Moses has revealed the existence of God to his nation. Jesus Christ to the Roman world, Muhammad to the old continent. β€” Napoleon Bonaparte

I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse. β€” Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

Jesus called for nonviolent resistance to Rome and just distribution of land and food. He was crucified because he threatened Roman stability -- not as a sacrifice to God for humanity's sins. β€” John Dominic Crossan

God is the ruler of history. His times are well chosen The Roman Empire was an instrument in his hand. And so are the nations of the modern world. β€” John Gresham Machen

To say that Romans 7 describes the Christian is to slight the grace of God and to foster wanton behaviour. β€” Jacobus Arminius

When your humanness is confronted by the magnificence and holiness of God, you are made SO aware of your need for God’s grace...Romans 12:1 teaches us how to live this life of worship and love. β€” Darlene Zschech

ZEUS /n./ The chief of Grecian gods, adored by the Romans as Jupiter and by the modern Americans as God, Gold, Mob and Dog. β€” Ambrose Bierce

The biblical way to express God’s love to a sinner is to show him how great his sin is (using the Lawβ€”see Romans 7:13; Galatians 3:24), and then give him the incredible grace of God in Christ. β€” Ray Comfort

Olympian Gods Quotes

God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure. - Eric Liddell

God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure. β€” Eric Liddell

I believe God made me for a purpose, but he also made me fast. β€” Eric Liddell

Hestia shook her head. "I am here because when all else fails, when all the other mighty gods have gone off to war, I am all that's left. Home. Hearth. I am the last Olympian β€” Rick Riordan

'You're Dionysus,' I said. 'The god of wine.' Mr. D rolled his eyes. 'What do they say these days, Grover? Do the children say "Well duh!"?' 'Y-yes, Mr. D.' 'Then, "Well, duh!" Percy Jackson. Did you think I was Aphrodite, perhaps?' 'You're a god.' 'Yes, child.' 'A god. You.' β€” Rick Riordan

Wow," Thalia muttered. "Apollo is hot." "He's the sun god," I said. "That's not what I meant. β€” Rick Riordan

That’s us,” he said. β€œThose five nuts right there.” Which one is me?” I asked. The little deformed one,” Zoe suggested. Oh, shut up. β€” Rick Riordan

Hope survives best at the hearth. β€” Rick Riordan

God alert!" Blackjack yelled. "It's the wine dude! Mr. D sighed in exasperation. "The next person, or horse, who calls me the 'wine dude' will end up in a bottle of Merlot! β€” Rick Riordan

People who want to live like Olympian gods must have slaves whom they throw into their fishponds and gladiators who fight during their masters sumptuous banquets-and the pleasure-seekers never care if some blood splatters on them. β€” Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

You're the last Olympian,' I said. 'And the most important.' And why is that, Percy Jackson?' Because Hope survives best at the hearth,' I said. β€” Rick Riordan

Gods And Goddesses Quotes

It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible Gods and Goddesses. To remember that the dullest, and most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship. β€” C. S. Lewis

There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. β€” C. S. Lewis

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. β€” Scott Cunningham

I do not believe that there are any such things as gods and goddesses, for exactly the same reasons as I do not believe there are fairies, goblins or sprites, and these reasons should be obvious to anyone over the age of ten. β€” A.C. Grayling

Theologians frequently assert that God has no body, no gender, no race and no age. Most people state that God is neither male nor female. Yet most people become flustered, upset or even angry when it is suggested that the God they know as Lord and Father might also be God the Mother, or Goddess. β€” Carol P. Christ

There are no ordinary people.. it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit. β€” C. S. Lewis

There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations--these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. β€” C. S. Lewis

Animals are always goddesses and gods, like the god Anubis. He's the one who's accompanying the souls to the next life, and he's the one who decides if they will be able to cross or not. β€” Michal Rovner

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. β€” Christopher Lee

...it seemed to me I was living in an insane asylum of my own making. I wnt about with all these fantastic figures: centaurs, nymphs, satyrs, gods and goddesses, as though they were patients and I was analyzing them. I read a Greek or Negro myth as if a lunatic were telling me his anamnesis. β€” Carl Jung

Different Gods Quotes

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. β€” Reinhold Niebuhr

I am in love with every church And mosque And temple And any kind of shrine Because I know it is there That people say the different names Of the One God. β€” Hafez

We are all different, but when we ask for the Lord's blessings, we must not forget that God created us equal. β€” Vladimir Putin

All religions are true. God can be reached by different religions. Many rivers flow by many ways but they fall into the sea. They all are one. β€” Ramakrishna

Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire. β€” St. Catherine of Siena

For me, the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches of the same majestic tree. Therefore, they are equally true, though being received and interpreted through human instruments equally imperfect. β€” Mahatma Gandhi

Truth is one, though the sages know it as many . God is one, though different religions approach Him differently Call Him Shiva, Vishnu, Allah, Jesus or any other form of God that you believe in . Our paths may be different. Our destination is the same. β€” Amish Tripathi

Our religion seems foolish to you, but so does yours to me. The Baptists and Methodists and Presbyterians and the Catholics all have a different God. Why cannot we have one of our own? β€” Sitting Bull

It does not matter what your personal deficiency, or whether it be a hundred and one different things, God has always one sufficient answer, His Son Jesus Christ, and he is the answer to every need. β€” Watchman Nee

Religion and practical life are not different. To take sanyas (renunciation) is not to abandon life. The real spirit is to make the country, your family, work together instead of working only for your own. The step beyond is to serve humanity and the next step is to serve God. β€” Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Ancient History Quotes

Ancient Egypt was a Negro Civilization. The history of Black Africa will remain suspended in air and cannot be written correctly until African historians dare to connect it with the history of Egypt. β€” Cheikh Anta Diop

Who do you suppose invented computers? Speaking in terms relevant to you, in terms of earth history, let alone other worldly history, the computer, of course, came from Atlantis. β€” Frederick Lenz

What I love about the stories of the Great Migration is that this is not ancient history; this is living history. Most people of color can find someone in their own family who had experienced a migration of some kind, knowing the sense of dislocation, longing and fortitude. β€” Isabel Wilkerson

Whereas much of what we know from ancient history is derived from one or two sources, we have no fewer than nine ancient sources, inside and outside the New Testament, corroborating the disciples' conviction that they encountered the resurrected Jesus. That's an avalanche of data. β€” Lee Strobel

Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history. Let us hope that we are still in the early morning of our April day. β€” Stephen Jay Gould

If the people of the United States come to Iran and see its ancient history and nature of Iran, and the people of Iran go to the United States to see America, this can shorten the walls of mistrust and improve the situation for the future. β€” Hassan Rouhani

Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history; so she seemed in this age of Napoleon III with her towering buildings, her massive cathedrals, her grand boulevards and ancient winding medieval streets - as vast and indestructible as nature itself. β€” Anne Rice

Is your Christianity ancient history--or current events? β€” Samuel M. Shoemaker

Is your Christianity ancient history--or current events? β€” Sam Shoemaker

I suppose I felt doomed to be an artist early on because of the way I drew all over the books that I needed for school, from ancient history to math. I was more interested in drawing in the margins than actually doing the work. β€” Nancy Spero

Greek God Quotes

If you could meet your grandkids as elderly citizens in the year 2100 … you would view them as being, basically, Greek gods… that's where we're headed. β€” Michio Kaku

A God in the hand is worth two in the bush. - Frederick Buechner

A God in the hand is worth two in the bush. β€” Frederick Buechner

For me Esoteric Hitlerism is being possessed by the archetypes of the collective unconscious which the Greeks used to call gods. β€” Miguel Serrano

The Greeks bequeathed to us one of the most beautiful words in our language--the word 'enthusiasm'--en theos--a god within. The grandeur of human actions is measured by the inspiration from which they spring. Happy is he who bears a god within, and who obeys it. β€” Louis Pasteur

If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama. β€” Lillian Hellman

We are living in what the Greeks called the kairos - the right moment - for a 'metamorphosis of the gods', of the fundamental principles and symbols. This peculiarity of our time, which is certainly not of our conscious choosing, is the expression of the unconscious man within us who is changing. β€” Carl Jung

The Serbs have only two friends, God and the Greeks. β€” Radovan Karadzic

Rachel: You're a half-blood, too? Annabeth: Shhh! Just announce it to the world, how about? Rachel: Okay. Hey, everybody! These two aren't human! They're half Greek god!...They don't seem to care. β€” Rick Riordan

The Greeks, it will be recalled, regarded Eros, the god of love, as the eldest of the gods; but also as the youngest, born fresh and dewy-eyed in every living heart. β€” Joseph Campbell

What good are Greek, commentaries, insight, gift, and all the rest, if there is no heart for Christ? β€” Jim Elliot

Ancient World Quotes

Δ°stanbul is a magical seal which unites Europe and Asia since the ancient times. Without a doubt, Istanbul is certainly the most beautiful place of the world. β€” Gerard De Nerval

How carelessly imperial power vivisected ancient civilizations. Palestine and Kashmir are imperial Britain's festering, blood-drenched gifts to the modem world. Both are fault lines in the raging international conοΏ½icts of today. β€” Arundhati Roy

We live in an age that's repeating itself endlessly. We're getting closer again to the techno-chic world we saw in Atlantis that occurs in countless planes. It's indigenous to enlightenment. β€” Frederick Lenz

The world has always been this way. I am sure in the mystery world of Egypt, ancient Atlantis, you pick a cosmos - There is always somebody on your case. β€” Frederick Lenz

The old Atlantean sciences from the tribe of enlightenment, of which there are only a few remnants and chards left in this world, were medicine, law, computers, and the performing arts. β€” Frederick Lenz

To the great pharaohs it mattered a great deal to bury their treasures in the pyramids, which they thought they would bring to the other worlds. But obviously it doesn't matter to them now. They went, the goods stayed. β€” Frederick Lenz

The members of the Atlantean Mystery School were the earliest human explorers of the frontiers of inner space. Through their meditative journeys and explorations, they discovered many secret astral passageways that led to an infinite variety of other worlds and dimensions. β€” Frederick Lenz

The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods, the very torrents and wilds burst forth with it. β€” Walter Savage Landor

If I live to be old enough, I may sit down under some bush, the last left in the utilitarian world, and feel thankful that intellect in its march has spared one vestige of the ancient forest for me to die by. β€” Thomas Cole

The mystic and the physicist arrive at the same conclusion; one starting from the inner realm, the other from the outer world. The harmony between their views confirms the ancient Indian wisdom that Brahman, the ultimate reality without, is identical to Atman, the reality within. β€” Fritjof Capra

Goddess Quotes

But beauty is about finding the right fit, the most natural fit, To be perfect, you have to feel perfect about yourself --- avoid trying to be something you're not. For a goddess, that's especially hard. We can change so easily. -Aphrodite β€” Rick Riordan

Proceed, great chief, with virtue on thy sideThy every action let the goddess guide. β€” Phillis Wheatley

The Goddess does not rule the world; She is the world. Manifest in each of us, She can be known internally by every individual, in all her magnificent diversity. β€” Starhawk

All women are goddesses, and it's just a matter of letting that goddess-power shine - and if you don't try to be the biggest and baddest damn goddess you can be, you are selling yourself short. β€” Kimora Lee Simmons

Let's not forget that in India the symbol of strength is a woman; the goddess Shakti. β€” Indira Gandhi

To feel like a woman, wear heels, to feel like a goddess, wear five inches. - Christian Louboutin

To feel like a woman, wear heels, to feel like a goddess, wear five inches. β€” Christian Louboutin

There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats. - Pablo Picasso

There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats. β€” Pablo Picasso

Being brave enough to just be unapologetic for who you areβ€š that's a goddess. β€” BANKS

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess? β€” Ludwig van Beethoven

You have to rise above the squabbling and chaos, and keep believing. You have to always keep your goals in mind.” -Hera, goddess of marriage β€” Rick Riordan

Ancient Art Quotes

In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and pottery making. β€” Carol P. Christ

Atlantis was a highly evolved civilization where the sciences and arts were far more advanced than one might guess. Atlantis was technologically advanced in genetic engineering, computer science, inter-dimensional physics, and artistically developed with electronic music and crystal art forms. β€” Frederick Lenz

Unfortunately, half the boats were lost in a great storm at sea, and many members of the six boats that did make it to their destinations safely, were later killed by the very native people to whom they sought to transmit their knowledge of the Atlantean sciences, arts and metaphysics. β€” Frederick Lenz

The style of ancient Egyptian art is transcendently clear, something 8-year-olds can recognize in an instant. Its consistency and codification is one of the most epic visual journeys in all art, one that lasts 30 dynasties spread over 3,000 years. β€” Jerry Saltz

Rae Chorze Fwaz was a mystery school. A mystery school is an occult order comprised of people who study meditation, enlightenment and psychic and occult arts. β€” Frederick Lenz

All this angst, all this stuff we all feel, is just tied to making art. It's so ancient. β€” Paul Beatty

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you. β€” Lao Tzu

A picture is a work of art, not because it is 'modern,' nor because it is 'ancient,' but because it is a sincere expression of human feeling. β€” John F. Carlson

[On the ancient Venus figurines:] If the central religious figure was a woman giving birth and not, as in our time, a man dying on a cross, it would not be unreasonable to infer that life and the love of life - rather than death and the fear of death - were dominant in society as well as art. β€” Riane Eisler

The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing. β€” Henry James Sumner Maine

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We must complain. Yes, plain, blunt complaint, ceaseless agitation, unfailing exposure of dishonesty and wrong - this is the ancient, unerring way to liberty and we must follow it. β€” W. E. B. Du Bois

The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope. β€” Wendell Berry

You know, the ancient Egyptians had a beautiful belief about death. When their souls got to the entrance to heaven, the guards asked two questions. Their answers determined whether they were able to enter or not. 'Have you found joy in your life?' 'Has your life brought joy to others?' β€” Morgan Freeman

O, You who are ever giving life to all life, moving all creatures, root of all things, washing them clean, wiping out their mistakes, healing their wounds, You are our true life, luminous, wonderful, awakening the heart from its ancient sleep. β€” Hildegard of Bingen

Knowledge has always been important, of course. The ancient Egyptians did not raise the stones for the pyramids relying on the incantations of their gods. The waters in the irrigation canals of the great Indus Civilisation did not flow according to the laws of ignorance. Knowledge has always been power and wealth. β€” Mahathir Mohamad

It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity. β€” Alexander Hamilton

After the conversations about Indian philosophy, some of the ideas of Quantum Physics that had seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense. β€” Werner Heisenberg

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage, and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world. Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. β€” John F. Kennedy

Ubuntu is not a biblical concept but an ancient African one. Nevertheless it falls back on one simple thing: that humans have been created for togetherness, and what drives us apart is greed, lust for power, and a sense of exclusion, but those are aberrations. β€” Allan Boesak

When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous β€” Albert Einstein

According to Herodotus, the ancient Persians felt that what was necessary in the background of a young man entering adulthood was his ability to ride, shoot straight, and speak the truth. Perhaps we should now grant our college degrees to young men who measure up to that standard. β€” Jeff Cooper

Freemasonry is an ancient and respectable institution, embracing individuals of every nation, of every religion, and of every condition in life. Wealth, power and talents are not necessary to the person of a Freemason. An unblemished character and a virtuous conduct are the only qualifications for admission into the Order. β€” Andrew Jackson

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. β€” John Dominic Crossan

The helicopter is probably the most versatile instrument ever invented by man. It approaches closer than any other to fulfillment of mankind's ancient dreams of the flying horse and the magic carpet. β€” Igor Sikorsky

It is true that we aspire to our ancient land. But what we want in that ancient land is a new blossoming of the Jewish spirit. β€” Theodor Herzl

Tahiti has been spoiled for many years, but Bali is one of the few cultures with origins in one of the great ancient cultures which is still alive. β€” Arthur Erickson

Hermeticism is the science of nature hidden in the hieroglyphics and symbols of the ancient world. It is the search for the principle of life, along with the dream (for those who have not yet achieved it) of accomplishing the great work, that is the reproduction by man of the divine, natural fire which creates and recreates beings. β€” Eliphas Levi

Perhaps these ancient observatories like Stonehenge perennially impress modern people because modern people have no idea how the Sun, Moon, or stars move. We are too busy watching evening television to care what's going on in the sky. β€” Neil deGrasse Tyson

Do not struggle. Go with the flow of things, and you will find yourself at one with the mysterious unity of the Universe. β€” Zhuangzi

The tumalt and shouting dies, The captains and the kings depart. Still stands thine ancient sacrifice, An humble and a contrite heat. Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget, lest we forget. β€” Rudyard Kipling

Just as the ancients danced to call upon the spirits in nature, we too can dance to find the spirits within ourselves that have been long buried and forgotten. β€” Anna Halprin

Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years. β€” Lillian Smith

Naturally I never had the intention to offend or alienate Slavs. ... What makes me different from the 'nazis' are basically three things; unlike them I am not socialistic (not even on a national level), I am not materialistic and I believe in (the ancient Scandinavian!) democracy. β€” Varg Vikernes

I call this a β€˜lost art’ because so many of these new discoveries aren’t new at all. Most of the techniques I’ll be exploring have been around for hundreds, sometimes thousands of years. They were created, documented, forgotten, and discovered in another culture at another time, then forgotten again. This went on for centuries. β€” James Nestor

The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones. β€” Northrop Frye

Ancient yoga, and its focus on prana, sitting, and breathing, has turned into a form of aerobic exercise. β€” James Nestor

The favorite device of the devil, ancient and modern, is to force a human being into a more or less artificial class, accuse the class of unnamed and unnameable sin, and then damn any individual in the alleged class, however innocent he may be. β€” W. E. B. Du Bois

According to the ancient Chinese proverb, A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. β€” John F. Kennedy

We've always known that our bodies are capable of healing themselves under the right conditions: Diet and exercise improve our health. But there are also ancient genetic survival pathways in every living thing. β€” David Sinclair

Hundreds of years ago, Indian artists created visual images of dancing Shivas in a beautiful series of bronzes. In our time, physicists have used the most advanced technology to portray the patterns of the cosmic dance. The metaphor of the cosmic dance thus unifies ancient mythology, religious art and modern physics. β€” Fritjof Capra

Keep to the ancient way and custom of the Church, established and confirmed by so many Saints under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. And live a new life. Pray, and get others to pray, that God not abandon His Church, but reform it as He pleases, and as He sees best for us, and more to His honor and glory. β€” Angela Merici

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