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Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.

Joseph Campbell

Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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Illumination Late Regret
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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Break Live Ourselves Problem Talk Tree World Wrong
You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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Authority Life Maturity Yourself
Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
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Hell Myself Need
People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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Fact Forget People Remember Story
If you follow your bliss…the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
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Follow Life Oneself Yourself
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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Day Decision Victory Win World
Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and its spectacular.
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Alive God Inspirational Life Pain Suffering
If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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Ideas Innovation Spontaneous Yourself
It’s only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.
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Demon Himself Man Tame World
The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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Art Experience Goal Life
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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Body Feeling Soul Stay Student Yourself
The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure– fearlessness and achievement.
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Achievement Adventure Courage Fear Life
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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Alive Believe Experience Life Meaning Myself People
You must have a place to which you can go in your heart, your mind, or your house, almost every day, where you do not owe anyone and where no one owes you – a place that simply allows for the blossoming of something new and promising.
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Day Heart Home Mindset Place Promise Yourself
We’re not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.
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Influence Journey Person Save World

Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.

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