You… are the symbol of the revolution that will transform Aryavarta; you are the one who has brought us to this. – Panchali Draupadi
In Buddhist culture, offering food to the monk symbolizes the action of goodness, and if you have no opportunity to support the practice of spirituality, then you are somehow left in the realm of darkness.
Throughout history, ambassadors have always been symbolic incarnations of the sovereignty of their nations and the dignity of their leaders.
Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists.
It was Jung who first said to explain the symbol as if talking to a man from mars who knew nothing about our life on earth.
Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.
The language of clothing is high symbolism and we all, in moments where we need to know this, realize it.
For women, men creates war, even though women are the symbols of love, peace, and harmony.
Information comes through to me in 3 basic ways seen, hearing, and feeling the energy of the person that's crossed over. In which it is a symbolic type of language.
But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.
Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning.
A praying mother symbolizes grace, strength and wisdom; she is an icon of productivity and ingenuity.
Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
Sufficiently simple natural structures are predictable but uncontrollable, whereas sufficiently complex symbolic descriptions are controllable but unpredictable.
An achievement award is not the end goal; but rather a symbolic confirmation of your potential future success.
Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.
People always try to put a title or a symbol on you. If you work in a bank, you are a banker. For me, they see a co-founder of Facebook.
When I’d remember this night in weeks, months, or even years, it wouldn’t be the sex. Sex would fade and so would the need to be filled with him, but right now I felt him inscribe his soul around my chest, and the reminder would be there with eve...
Israelis are a mix of North African, Levantine, and Eastern European, which inflames the politics but does amazing things for the women.
Sexism is not confined by border, race, class, sexuality or gender and, to my mind (and Margo Kingston's in Chapter 6), it is inextricably bound up with a mindset of entitlement that also afflicts our relationship with the planet.
