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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

If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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Clear Path Yourself
Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.
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Artist Love Mistake Perfection Person
The best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange.
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Best Conversation Understand
Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
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Hell Myself Need
We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.
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Achievement Alive Association Engagement Purpose
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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Big Hero Herself Life
Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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Art Carry Wings Yourself
God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.
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God Intellectual Level Simplicity Thinking
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
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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Life Meaning Question Yourself
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
When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.
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Darkness Life Lost Need
All we really want to do is dance.
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Dance Move One Liner
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
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
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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Dreams Myth Privacy Public

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