"Tell me who is able to keep his bed chaste, or which goddess is able to live with one god alone?"

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Propertius

#Able Quotes #Bed Quotes #Goddess Quotes

“I prefer to live in my own little bubble of my own reality.”
“There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature, such as it is, weak or strong, and the thing which pleases us. Whatever is formed according to this standard pleases us, be it house, song, discourse, verse, prose, woman, birds, rivers, trees, room, dress, and so on. Whatever is not made according to this standard displeases those who have good taste.”
“Reverence awakens in the soul a sympathetic power through which we attract qualities in the beings around us, which would otherwise remain concealed.”

Source : Rudolf Steiner (2015). “How to Know Higher Worlds”, p.7, RSP
“Religion made half of us afraid to die, and the other half afraid to live.”
“You learn a lot, writing fiction.”
“There is an eagle in me that wants to soar...”
“How about this miracle... God says if you plant the seed I will make the tree. Wow, you can't have a better arrangement than that. First, it gives God the tough end of the deal. What if you had to make a tree? That would keep you up late at night trying to figure out how to make a tree. God says, "No, leave the miracle part to me. I've got the seed, the soil, the sunshine, the rain and the seasons. I'm God and all this miracles stuff is easy for me. I have reserved something very special for you and that is to plant the seed.”
“Time stoops to no man's lure.”

Source : Algernon Charles Swinburne (1866). “Laus Veneris, and other poems and ballads. [Orig. publ. as Poems and ballads]. Author's ed”, p.192

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