There were dragons to slay in the old days. Nixon was a good dragon.
There were dragons to slay in the old days. Nixon was a good dragon.
The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes.
Stress is an important dragon to slay - or at least tame - in your life.
Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
Earth, where we rode to slay or be slain,
Our love shall redeem unto life.
If within my heart there's mould,
If the flame of Poesy
And the flame of Love grow cold,
Slay my body utterly.
It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.
I am a comic writer, which means I get to slay the dragons, and shoot the bull.
Slay -- and my Soul shall rise
Chanting to Paradise --
Still thine.
Mark, young man, the line you succeed in will be of yourown finding. The Davids in life do not slay the Goliaths ofdifficulty and temptation in another's armor, even thoughit be the king's, but with their own self-made weapons,though they be nothing more formidable than a sling anda pebble.
In this view of the world, the job of heroes is to enlighten the world by loving itstarting with themselves. Their task is not to slay the dragonwithin or withoutbut to affirm the deepest level of truth about it that is, that we are all one.
Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.
It is well for our vanity that we slay the criminal, for if we suffered him to live he might show us what we had gained by his crime.
A woman today lives in perpetual conflict. She cannot slay the dragon of the unconscious without severing her own essential contact with it without in fact destroying her feminine strength and becoming a mere pseudo-man. Her task is a peculiarly difficult one. She needs the focused consciousness her animus alone can give her, yet she must not forsake her womans role of mediator to man. Through a woman, man finds his soul. She must never forget this. Through a woman, not through a pseudo-man. Through man, woman finds the animus who can express the soul she has never lost. Her burning need is to trust her own diffuse awareness, to know what she knows and to learn to speak of it, for until it is expressed she does not wholly know it.
Take it from a guy: If you're in love with somebody, you will swim the stream, you will climb the mountain, you will slay the dragon. You're going to get to her somehow, some way.
Or does love still shudder and steel still slay,
Where the bones of the brave in the wave are lying?
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
© 2020 Inspirational Stories