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“There is, one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath...”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“The sea waves stirred before me
they dashed against the rocks
Like a mermaid rising from its depths
curled white sea foam were her locks...”
― Giselle V. Steele

“O, train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note,
to drown me in thy sister’s flood of tears.”
― William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors

“What you leave behind is not what is engraved on stone momuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.”
― Pericles

“That is where my dearest and brightest dreams have ranged — to hear for the duration of a heartbeat the universe and the totality of life in its mysterious, innate harmony.”
― Hermann Hesse, Gertrude

“Come, weave us a scheme so I can pay them back!
Stand beside me, Athena, fire me with daring, fierce
as the day we ripped Troy's glittering crown of towers down.
Stand by me - furious now as then, my bright-eyed one -
and I would fight three hundred men, great goddess,
with you to brace me, comrade-in-arms in battle!”
― Homer, The Odyssey

“There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacing of the spheres. ”
― Pythagoras

“Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light.”
― Pythagoras

“There was not a philosopher of any notoriety who did not hold to this doctrine of metempsychosis, as taught by the Brahmans, Buddhists, and later by the Pythagoreans, in its esoteric sense, whether he expressed it more or less intelligibly. Origen and Clemens Alexandrinus, Synesius and Chalcidius, all believed in it; and the Gnostics, who are unhesitatingly proclaimed by history as a body of the most refined, learned, and enlightened men, * were all believers in metempsychosis. Socrates entertained opinions identical with those of Pythagoras; and both, as the penalty of their divine philosophy, were put to a violent death. The rabble has been the same in all ages. Materialism has been, and will ever be blind to spiritual truths. These philosophers held, with the Hindus, that God had infused into matter a portion of his own Divine Spirit, which animates and moves every particle. They”
― Helena P Blavasky, Works of H. P. Blavasky 31 Illustrated Books w/ links

“Everyone who wants to know what will happen ought to examine what has happened: everything in this world in any epoch has their replicas in antiquity.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli

“Show not what has been done, but what can be. How beautiful the world would be if there were a procedure for moving through labyrinths.”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

“It only takes two facing mirrors to build a labyrinth.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“As above, so below, as within, so without, as the universe, so the soul…”
― Hermes Trismegistus

“The gradually growing hegemony of the eye seems to be parallel with the development of Western ego-consciousness and the gradually increasing separation of the self and the world; vision separates us from the world whereas the other senses unite us with it.”
― Juhani Pallasmaa, The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses

“There are often evolutionary parallels on the different worlds because creation tends to be economical.”
― Julian May, Orion Arm

“The multiverse exists because every choice we make creates a fork in the road, which leads into a parallel world.”
― Blake Crouch

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.”
― E.Y. Harburg

“We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams.”
― Albert Einstein

“I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.”
― e.e. cummings

“There is nothing like a dream to create the future.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars, to change the world.”
― Harriet Tubman

“If you're trapped in the dream of the Other, you're fucked.”
― Gilles Deleuze

“Apollo Loves at first sight; he wants to marry Daphne, He hopes for what he wants—all wishful thinking!”
― Ovid, Metamorphoses: The New, Annotated Edition

“He saw her eyes bright as stars; he saw her lips, and was not satisfied with only seeing them.”
― Bulfinch, Thomas

“That which wounds, shall heal.”
― Apollo

“Here ease and comfort are the legacy,   The round and glowing cheek, the red, ripe mouth,   Here each possesses immortality   In his descendants’ happiness and health.   And thus in pure contentment, cloudless days,   The child grows up and fathers in his turn.   Amazed, we never cease to ask: Are these   High gods descended here or are they men?   Apollo, when he kept sheep, looked completely   The handsome shepherd in both form and face: 9900 Where Nature uninsulted rules serenely,   All worlds commingle, gods and men change place.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust: A Tragedy, Parts One and Two

“Notes of joy blend with the tearful dirge
When Apollo's voice rings forth,
when with his golden plectrum
He rouses rich music from his lute.
I too will chant the praise
Of one who has entered the night of the world below”
― Euripides, Herakles

“When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.”
― Albert Einstein

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
― Lao Tzu