Myth Quotes - page 14

To be a hero means being the author of your own myth. (Alberto Villoldo)
We laughed about all the kids who believed in the Santa Clause myth and got nothing but a bunch of cheap plastic toys. 'Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotten,' Dad said, ' you'll still have your stars. View quote
Jeannette Walls
Christmas is a story that has both religious and pagan origins, and to ignore its power is to ignore the power of myth - those symbols and legends that help us to ground our lives. View quote
Jay Parini
I say that a myth is a story which has particular energy, mythic resonance. I always say that a myth is a tear in the fabric of reality through which all of this spiritual energy pours. View quote
Jay Parini
I feel a real responsibility to my community and so right now there has been this bizarre myth in our community how our vote doesn't count. I'm trying to get out there and re-educate on how the government works and break that myth and talk about the importance of being involved. View quote
Jada Pinkett Smith
Dont buy into the 20-hours-a-day entrepreneur myth. You need to sleep 8 hours a day to have a focused mind. View quote
James Altucher
Evolution is a myth. God creates the future the way he wants it. View quote
James Redfield
Follow the lead of your symptoms, for there's usually a myth in the mess, and a mess is an expression of soul. View quote
James Hillman
As Plotinus tells us, we elected the body, the parents, the place, and the circumstances that suited the soul and that, as the myth says, belongs to its necessity. View quote
James Hillman
Futurism is another American myth: whether Kennedy, Johnson, Reagan or Obama, American presidents all come into office with a new program, and the conviction that the country is going to be better than ever. View quote
James Hillman
There was that feminist myth that we can do everything. I don't think you can. (Jessica Lange)
Successful model? That's a myth. The year I modeled was the most painful year of my life. Editors would always talk to you in the third person as though you were merely a piece of merchandise. View quote
Jessica Lange
It took some time to gather the research and develop it into the storyline, and to finally finish an origin myth poem that I had been working on for twenty years. View quote
Jean M. Auel
Insights from myth, dreams, and intuitions, from glimpses of an invisible reality, and from perennial human wisdom provide us with hints and guesses about the meaning of life and what we are here for. Prayer, observance, discipline, thought and action are the means through which we grow and find meaning. View quote
Jean Shinoda Bolen
Each time, storytellers clothed the naked body of the myth in their own traditions, so that listeners could relate more easily to its deeper meaning. View quote
Joan D. Vinge
Myth is, after all, the neverending story. View quote
Joan D. Vinge
Here was a fragment of Goddess myth that, through all its permutations, had somehow escaped being turned on its head. It was the perfect springboard for the sort of novel I wanted to write. View quote
Joan D. Vinge
One of the things Jung said is everybody acts out a myth but very few people know what their myth is and you should know what your myth is because it might be a tragedy and maybe you don't want it to be. View quote
Jordan Peterson
St. George is the hero who goes out to confront the dragon, and he frees the virgin from its grasp. I would say that's a pretty straight forward story about the sexual attractiveness of the masculine spirit that's willing to forthrightly encounter the unknown. It is a straight biological representation to me, and it's a really, really old story. It's the oldest written story we have, and it's basically the ancient Mesopotamian creation myth, the Enuma Elish, which basically plays out that story. You've basically seen this story played out a hundred different ways, and you never get tired of it, because it's the central story of mankind. View quote
Jordan Peterson
Behavior is imitated, then abstracted into play, formalized into drama and story, crystallized into myth and codified into religion-and only then criticized in philosophy, and provided, post-hoc, with rational underpinnings. View quote
Jordan Peterson
Dear Anita, I read your manuscript some time ago and it has lain on my table -.. You have written your dream picture of me - and I am not that way at all. We are such different kinds of people that it reads as if we spoke different languages and didn't understand one another at all. You write of the legends others have made up about me - but when I read your manuscript, it seems as much a myth as all the others. I really believe that to call this my biography when it has so little to do with me is impossible - and I cannot have my name exploited to further it. (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Equality is a myth to protect the weak. some of us are strong in the Force, others are not. Only a fool believes otherwise. View quote
Drew Karpyshyn
There is no sex without a cue. People who date have their cues at home, before they meet. You think about where to go, what to eat, what to do and say. Sometimes the cue is short - - just before we reach the bar - - but sex is never just spontaneous. Spontaneity is a myth. View quote
Esther Perel
The myth of Kevin Mitnick is much more interesting than the reality of Kevin Mitnick. If they told the reality, no one would care. View quote
Kevin Mitnick
Total intimacy is a myth; that said, a particular kind of loneliness can be both beautiful and fruitful. View quote
Lauren Groff