Galina Krasskova > Galina's Quotes

“My principles are only those that, before the French Revolution, every well-born person considered sane and normal.”
― Julius Evola

“Neither pleasure nor pain should enter as motives when one must do what must be done.”
― Julius Evola, Ride the Tiger: A Survival Manual for the Aristocrats of the Soul

“We expect God’s presence to be thunderous, spectacular, monumental; but it is our need that is so large. The real presence slips past our demands for spectacle. It slips past our despair.”
― Tim Farrington, The Monk Downstairs

“Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“It is incredible how fear is built into you, by your parents and others surrounding you. You’re so innocent in the beginning; you don’t know.”
― Marina Abramović, Walk Through Walls: A Memoir

“If you experiment, you have to fail. By definition, experimenting means going to territory where you’ve never been, where failure is very possible. How can you know you’re going to succeed? Having the courage to face the unknown is so important. I”
― Marina Abramović, Walk Through Walls: A Memoir

“She cut through worlds, and joined them—that’s the important part—so that both became bigger.”
― Samuel R. Delany, Babel-17

“Holy places are dark places. It is life and strength, not knowledge and words, that we get in them. Holy wisdom is not clear and thin like water, but thick and dark like blood.”
― C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces

“In the general course of things, when beauty passes, the flower bows its head upon the stem and fails. Sometimes, though, when the petals droop, a framework of tempered steel is revealed within.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

“Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”
― Stephen Fry

“We are all of us, every one, our own works; we present our souls to our Patrons at the ends of our lives as an artisan presents the works of his hands.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Paladin of Souls

“This is what happens when you repudiate who you are. Once you do that, life works against you, and your fate is no longer your own.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Rules of Magic

“Fear would come in time, no doubt, but that did not mean she had to issue it a formal invitation.”
― C.S. Friedman, Wings of Wrath

“Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.”
― Rumi

“The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.”
― Selwyn Duke

“I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.”
― Alexander The Great

“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“God has judged me all my life. But that is God's privilege, my lady. Not yours.”
― Barbara Hambly, The Armies of Daylight

“Is that a thing selkies do, make ye pine?” [Their beauty is a defense. The idea is that humans won’t want to hurt them if they’re extraordinarily beautiful.] “Really? That seems like an epic misjudgment of humanity.”
― Kevin Hearne, Ink & Sigil

“My point, once again, is not that those ancient people told literal stories and we are now smart enough to take them symbolically, but that they told them symbolically and we are now dumb enough to take them literally.”
― John Dominic Crossan, Who Is Jesus? Answers to Your Questions About the Historical Jesus

“In the Old English translation, Christ’s statement that ‘where your gold-hoard is, there is your heart’ is particularly apt, because in Anglo-Saxon poetry the heart itself is often called a ‘hoard’, the place where the treasures of the spirit are kept. It’s the breosthord, feorhhord or sawelhord, the storehouse of thoughts, life or the soul.”
― Eleanor Parker, Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year

“The passions of the Gods are thus in themselves actions: the wrath of Apollo is the pestilence that begins the Iliad, the seeing of mortal suffering by Hera is the action she inspires.”
― Edward P. Butler, Essays on Hellenic Theology

“By causing ‘madness’ in Herakles, Hera leads him to the performance of labors resulting in new possibilities for humanity, the cause of which is symbolized as madness because ‘sanity’ for souls lies in turning back toward the sources of reason in them rather than pressing forward into new creations.”
― Edward P. Butler, Essays on Hellenic Theology

“Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.”
― Sappho

“In Rome’s social construct, dead family members informed the present and the future. Ancestors’ memorable actions translated into glory, dignity, and authority (gloria, dignitas, auctoritas), and they functioned as examples for family members and citizens.”
― Sarolta A. Takács, Vestal Virgins, Sibyls, and Matrons: Women in Roman Religion

“Some people think that “coven” is a word for a group of witches, and it’s true that’s what the dictionary says. But the real word for a group of witches is an “argument.”
― Terry Pratchett, Wintersmith

“Let nothing disturb you,
Let nothing frighten you,
All things are passing away:
God never changes.
Patience obtains all things.
Whoever has God lacks nothing;
God alone suffices.”
― Santa Teresa de Jesús

“Faxið glóandi akur
taglið knippi af korni
His mane a sunlit field
his tail a sheaf of corn”
― Gerður Kristný, Bloodhoof

“As in the case of the tea serjim, the shaman prepares the juniper serjim for someone else to use. In Mongolia and Siberia, the sacred smoke arsa (juniper) is kept on hand in large quantity because a shaman will often be required to prepare such a serjim, either by itself or in addition to other types of serjim. When the shaman prepares this serjim, he speaks over a few spoonfuls of ground juniper to invoke the spirits and ask them to empower the juniper for a particular intention. The shaman then wraps up the juniper into a little paper bundle. The client will burn a bit of it every day until it is gone in order to continue to energize the intention that has been introduced into the juniper.”
― Sarangerel, Chosen by the Spirits: Following Your Shamanic Calling