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Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.

Joseph Campbell

The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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Fate Guide Journey Path
How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means ‘filled with a god,’ so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it. So I have a little word: follow your bliss. The bliss is the message of God to yourself. That’s where your life is.
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Divine Follow God Message Power Word Yourself
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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Dreams Myth Privacy Public
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
Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain. Love itself is pain, you might say -the pain of being truly alive.
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Burn Life Love Pain Point Sorrow Yourself
Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.
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Life Reach Wall Wrong Yourself
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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End Expectation Figure Life Movie Question
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
The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact.
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Beyond Fact Information
You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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Authority Life Maturity Yourself
You’ve got to find the force inside you.
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Force Yourself
If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else’s; the whole point is to find your own way.
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Journey Path Way Yourself
If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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Hands Path Right Yourself
Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
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Hell Myself Need
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
Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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Funny People Scream

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