All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.
In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition.
Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods - moods of the masses and moods of individuals, the latter no less fickle and unreliable than the former - but no opinion.
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
To expect the world to receive a new truth, or even an old truth, without challenging it, is to look for one of those miracles which do not occur.
Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.
