Quotes About Myth

Every labyrinth has its minotaur

A legend is a lie that has been whipped up to explain a universal truth.

Una leyenda es una mentira pergeñada para explicar una verdad universal. Los lugares donde la mentira y el espejismo envenenan la tierra son particularmente fértiles para su cultivo.

Una leggenda é una menzogna ideata per spiegare una verità universale. I luoghi in cui la menzogna e l'illusione avvelenano la terra sono particolarmente fertili per la sua coltura.

Una leyenda es un pequeña mentira pergeñada para explicar una verdad universal.

Una leyenda es una mentira pergeñada para explicar una verdad universal.

Äiti kertoi hänelle vanhasta loitsusta, se oli kalastajien legenda, jonka hän oli kuullut pikkutyttönä rannalla. Kun joku kadotti suuntansa elämässä ja tunsi kuoleman vaanivan sieluaan, legenda kertoi, että jos hän löysi puhtaan sielun joka uhrautuisi hänen puolestaan, hän voisi naamioida mustan sydämensä sillä eikä kuolema huomaisi häntä vaan kulkisi ohi.

The most effective way to break the controlling force of a myth is to recognize that you personally believe it, and that while you may share this belief with others, it is a belief and not necessarily a fact.

Indeed, sometimes it's easier to recover from a physical crisis than from a myth crisis. It can be difficult to heal from a myth crisis if you don't even realize you're in one! An unacknowledged myth crisis can be the seed of lifelong depression and even a terminal illness.

You know what they say about angels? she asked. That they have wings and a halo? No, that they are just wild women who've had the hell screwed out of them, she said with another giggle.

The myth that "emotions are bad" puts the blame in the wrong place. Emotions aren't inherently bad or unruly, but sin has devastated our emotions.

Because all Robin Hood stories are fanfiction. Robin Hood started out as fanfiction and has never been anything else.

Fantasy is one of the best mediums for telling two stories (if not more!) at once. They layer on one another: reality and make-believe, life and myth, perception and fact.

But will he slay dragons for me?" Char whispered. "Slay dragons?" Sarah shook her head. "No one slays dragons anymore, my love. We just learn to live with them." Char

fairy tales, just a fancy word for lies...

Daughter of the Erl King and the Elfen Queen, that's who you are.

Legend gathered around him, swirling around him like a great black cloak.

People tend to think that metabolism is genetically predetermined. That you're either cursed or you're blessed. And that's not true.

Did we not all grow up saying we had to have four glasses of whole milk a day for healthy bones? It's ridiculous. It's liquid cholesterol.

What we mean when speaking of myth in general is story, the ability of story to explain ourselves to ourselves in ways that physics, philosophy, mathematics, chemistry—all very highly useful and informative in their own right—can't.

Those stories- myth, archetype, religious narrative, the great body of literature- are always with us. Always in us. We can draw upon them, tap into them, add to them whenever we want.

It's a myth that "predatory pricing" exploited American consumers and created business monopolies. ? Thanks to government subsidies, many of America's railroads were often laid on inefficient, circuitous routes. ? Rockefeller, Carnegie, Dow, and other great American businessmen did more for America than all the big-government programs combined.

The old myth traveled upward and outward; the new travels downward and inward.

The myth sovereign in the old age was that everything means everything. The myth sovereign in the new is that nothing means anything.