Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWe must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. –
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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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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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
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A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder. Fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won.
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All we really want to do is dance.
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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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When you follow your bliss, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you.
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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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What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.
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