Quotes About Creation

You have created your fears. And you can choose to lay them to rest. You have created your dreams. And you can choose to bring them fully to life.

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

I was raised in a truly typical Midwestern home with a lot of repression. My life, and the creation of Playboy, were a response to that repression.

Perhaps the way to succeed is to think of life on Earth as a colossal joke, a creation of such immense stupidity that the only way to live is to laugh until you think your heart will break.

The air we breathe, the water we drink, and the land we inhabit are not only critical elements in the quality of life we enjoy - they are a reflection of the majesty of our Creator.

I like writing because you can make things happen and turn out the way they never do in real life.

We don't ever leave that old world behind. We just create a new one

Adoro a sensação da morte iminente, mas leve. Então construí algo que me proporcionasse esses sentimentos sempre que quisesse.

Podemos empezar partiendo de algo muy pequeño. Abre un documento nuevo o coge una hoja de papel en blanco. Será nuestro lienzo. Recuerda lo que Miguel Ángel dijo sobre que la escultura estaba en el interior de la piedra, que estaba allí desde un buen principio, y que su trabajo consistía en extraerla. Tus palabras también están ahí.

Can you give to someone else what has been? That's the task of the poet.

I never understand," he said, shaking his head, "why anyone would go through the trouble of making up new people in this world when there's already billions of the buggers I don't give a shit about.

Baking is...Life. So when you describe what you're making, you must describe life. Do you see? It's not just recipes..

I never understand," he said, shaking his head, "why anyone would go to the trouble of making up new people in this world when there's already billions of the buggers I don't give a shit about.

Baking calms me; it's stabilizing. It's what I do when I don't want to think about anything hard. It is an activity that requires very little from you- you just follow the directions, and then at the end you have created something. From ingredients to an actual dessert. It's like magic. Poof, deliciousness.

From ingredients to an actual dessert. It's like magic. Poof, deliciousness.

It's what I do when I don't want to think about anything hard. It is an activity that requires very little from you—you just follow the directions, and then at the end you have created something. From ingredients to an actual dessert. It's like magic. Poof, deliciousness.

It can be kind of gruesome at times, making things alone.

I decide to make my class read creation myths. The idea is to go back to the beginning. In some, God is portrayed as a father, in others, as a mother. When God is a father, he is said to be elsewhere. When God is a mother, she is said to be everywhere.

Don't look," he says. "I'm inventing this. No one will ever know what I have done except me.

My mother told me once that each thing, each being, has two names. One is the name by which it is known in this world and the other is a secret name that it keeps hidden. But if you call it by this name it cannot help but respond. This is the name by which the creature was known in the Garden of Eden.

Of course it is difficult. You are creating a creature with a soul, my friend says.

Only God truly creates, for only God is unconstrained by things external to himself.

According to Eliade, the shamanic ladder is the earliest version of the idea of an axis of the world, which connects the different levels of the cosmos, and is found in numerous creation myths in the form of a tree.

Life itself: Its origin and nature.