Native American Black Elk Quotes & Sayings

Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of a person is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves. — Black Elk

Out of all the magic words in existence, kind words produce the most powerful transformation spells. — Richelle E. Goodrich

And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people as one of many hoops that made one circle. — Black Elk

The song and the drumming were like this: Behold, a sacred voice is calling you; All over the sky a sacred voice is calling. — Black Elk

All you need are a pair of tennis shoes and motivation to change the course of your life. — Heidi Bond

Out of the Indian approach to life there came a great freedom, an intense and absorbing respect for life, enriching faith in a Supreme Power, and principles of truth, honesty, generosity, equity, and brotherhood as a guide to mundane relations. — Black Elk

The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, whirls. Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours ... — Black Elk

By practicing Buddhist Yoga, you can become happy, ecstatic and free in your current incarnation, even if you have never been that way before in any of your past lives. — Frederick Lenz

The views were immensely wide. Everything that you saw made for greatness and freedom, and unequealled nobility. — Karen Blixen

Without good personal brands, whatever you do may not be accepted and patronized; without any brand at all, you may do something great which will not be known. — Israelmore Ayivor

Better to leave him with the memory of their being a pair of monsters, wrapped in each other's arms. — Holly Black

Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles. — Black Elk

But if the Vision was true and mighty, as I know, it is true and mighty yet;for such things are of Spirit, and it is in the darkness of their eyes that men get lost. — Black Elk

If you are on a TV series and you have a hard time disassociating from that character when you get home, your love life is going to suffer, your children are going to suffer, your friends will suffer. — Julianna Margulies

I'm sure in a lot of publishing houses that there is a frustration that people feel, that they're not in control, that they are puppets and the corporate bosses are manipulating the strings. — Larry Kirshbaum

I saw more than I can tell / And I understood more than I saw. — Black Elk

The important thing is that your teammates have to know you're pulling for them and you really want them to be successful. — Kobe Bryant

Like the grasses showing tender faces to each other, thus should we do, for this was the wish of the Grandfathers of the World. — Black Elk

I started in a band called 'Timbiriche', we toured the world when I was 8; I have 23 albums. — Paulina Rubio

Without courage, you cannot practice any other virtue. You have to have courage - courage of different kinds: first, intellectual courage, to sort out different values and make up your mind about which is the one which is right for you to follow. You have to have moral courage to stick up to that - no matter what comes in your way, no matter what the obstacle and the opposition is. — Indira Gandhi

The Holy Land is everywhere — Black Elk

I can still see the butchered women and children lying heaped and scattered all along the crooked gulch as plain as when I saw them with eyes still young. And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud, and was buried in the blizzard. A people's dream died there. It was a beautiful dream . . . the nation's hoop is broken and scattered. — Black Elk

If I thought that I was doing it myself, the hole would close up and no power could come through. Then everything I could do would be foolish. — Black Elk

Everywhere is the center of the world. Everything is sacred. — Black Elk