The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWhen you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.
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It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
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I always tell my students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don’t let anyone throw you off.
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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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If you follow your bliss…the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
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Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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We 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. –
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Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.
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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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All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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