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The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact.

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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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Dreams Myth Privacy Public
If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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Ideas Innovation Spontaneous Yourself
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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Big Hero Herself Life
Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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Fools Practical Wisdom World
The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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Fate Guide Journey Path
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 Old Oneself Planning Skin Willing
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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Boundary God Hero Journey Step Yourself
You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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Authority Life Maturity 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
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
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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Challenge Deep Life Opportunity Ourselves Power
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
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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Life Privilege Time Yourself
Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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Learning Wave World
The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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Capability God Oneself Worship
You’ve got to find the force inside you.
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Force Yourself

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