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 CAMPBELLVegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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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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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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It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.
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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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If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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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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We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
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You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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It is within you that the divine lives.
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