#goddess

Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn't see their thoughts as belonging to them. When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love. Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy, but now they call this free will. At least the ancient Greeks were being honest. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#consumerism #free-will #god #goddess #greek

The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump? ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#goddess #going #great #lump #me

There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#only #two #types #women

Sometimes the hardest power to master is the power of yielding. -Hestia ↗

— Rick Riordan

#mythology #percy-jackson #power #mythology

Let My worship be in the heart that rejoices, for behold, all acts of love and pleasure are My rituals. ↗

— Doreen Valiente

#love #pleasure #worship #love

He was Apollo, God of Light, Music, and Healing, an immortal who had lived for eons and about whom stories and poems had been written. But he was also wretchedly carsick. ↗

— P. C. Cast

#humor #p-c-cast #humor

As often as we made love I remembered what my poet told me, that this man was born of a goddess, the force that moves the stars and the waves of the sea and couples the animals in the fields in spring, the power of passion, the light of the evening star. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#mythology #passion #poetry #love

Domestic goddesses have infiltrated everybody's lives and raised the bar way too high. ↗

— Daisy Donovan

#domestic #everybody #goddesses #high #lives

Salma is just one of the great goddesses ever put on this Earth. ↗

— Woody Harrelson

#ever #goddesses #great #just #just one

At other times, at the edge of a wood, especially at dusk, the trees themselves would assume strange shapes: sometimes they were arms rising heavenwards, , or else the trunk would twist and turn like a body being bent by the wind. At night, when I woke up and the moon and the stars were out, I would see in the sky things that filled me simultaneously with dread and longing. I remember that once, one Christmas Eve, I saw a great naked women, standing erect, with rolling eyes; she must have been a hundred feet high, but along she drifted, growing ever longer and ever thinner, and finally fell apart, each limb remaining separate, with the head floating away first as the rest of her body continued to waver ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#fear #goddess #hallucinations #nature #night