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Revision as of 01:25, 10 November 2016
The Vanafolk Maxims are a collection of succinct formulations, ancient beyond the memory of woman, of fundamental principles, general truths, and rules of conduct for the Vanafolk. They constitute a very important part of Vanic Law.
List of Vanafolk Maxims
- A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.
- A lustful mind is a joy for life.
- A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.
- Always walk tall.
- As we journey through the day, the Gods are with us on our way.
- Anyone can pray to the Gods in whatever manner zie likes.
- Be bare or be square.
- Beauty must not be covered up.
- Being deeply loved by someone gives one strength, while loving someone deeply gives one courage.
- Before the Gods, we are small. With the Gods we walk tall.
- Courage is the most important of all the virtues for without courage, one cannot practice any other virtue consistently.
- Do as the Gods say, and good things shall come your way.
- Everything that lives is born out of sex, including the soul.
- Faith is a gateway to life, not a substitute for it.
- Faith is responsibility, or it is nothing at all.
- Fear not the Norns, for Frigg spins our way.
- Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
- Intuition is not the enemy, but the ally, of reason.
- Keep on smiling!
- Knowledge and beauty are the food and drink of the spirit.
- Let the beauty you love be what you do.
- Lots of laughter a day, keeps the medicinewoman away.
- Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
- Nudity is honesty.
- Rudeness is the weak person's imitation of strength.
- Sacred sexuality is the normal function of the body, and when it is nourished, cherished and maintained, so is our health, happiness, and contentment.
- Thanks to the Gods we have beauty within and beauty without, and beauty all around.
- The female body is the source of creation, the sacred fount from which all life emanates.
- The Gods love us, this we know; for they have told us so!
- The Gods will not do anything for us that we will not do for us ourselves.
- The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- There is nothing in all the world more beautiful or significant than the nude human body.
- Those who are guilty of conscience, cannot bear the innocence of others.
- Truth is in the heart of the beholder.
- We are what the Gods have made us.
- We reap only the best of what we sow.
- What do we want? Everything out!