The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLA hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
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The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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When we talk about settling the world’s problems, we’re barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It’s a mess. It has always been a mess. We’re not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
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It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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You don’t ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what the world means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what you mean. You enjoy it.
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We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
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Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.
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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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I have found that you have only to take that one step toward the gods, and they will then take ten steps toward you. That step, the heroic first step of the journey, is out of, or over the edge of, your boundaries, and it often must be taken before you know that you will.
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The dreamer and his dream are the same…the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world.
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When you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.
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