Cosmogonic Myth Quotes & Sayings

While a friend expects more and more favors, and seethes with jealousy, these former enemies expected nothing and got everything. A man suddenly spared the guillotine is a grateful man indeed, and will go to the ends of the earth for the man who has pardoned him. — Robert Greene

In a great number of the cosmogonic myths the world is said to have developed from a great water, which was the prime matter. In many cases, as for instance in an Indian myth, this prime matter is indicated as a solution, out of which the solid earth crystallized out. — Svante Arrhenius

Maybe just as skin on a hand grows tougher after pain in repetition, a person does too. — Veronica Roth

And as for death - we get what we expect. — Janet Morris

He might have heard the first whisper of that wild blessing that afterwards took the form of a blasphemy; He listens to those to whom God himself will not listen — G.K. Chesterton

We diversify in two ways. First, we probably trade more markets worldwide than any other money manager. Second, we don't just use a single best system. To provide balance, we use lots of different systems ranging from short to long term. Some of these systems may not be that good by themselves, but we really don't care; that is not what they are there for. — Larry Hite

When the sun touched the earth, it spread out along the horizon like a giant yolk oozing free of its skin. — Christopher Paolini

Bad things open your eyes to the good things you weren't paying attention to before. — N.M. Facile

The harder I try to realistically portray real things, the more the things that appear in my work have a tendency to become unreal. — Haruki Murakami

It can be easy to love all beings from a distance; it can be a great challenge when we have to live with them. — Gil Fronsdal

There are all kinds of people, and in the attempt to build up a solidarity among them, defects of each one affect all the others. — Sri Aurobindo