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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
- Joseph Campbell
Related topics: Wisdom Dream Myth
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.
- Joseph Campbell 
Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is
whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
- Joseph Campbell
The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell
Find a place inside where there's joy,
and the joy will burn out the pain.
- Joseph Campbell
We must let go of the life we have planned,
so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
- Joseph Campbell
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.
- Joseph Campbell
God is a metaphor for that which transcends
all levels of intellectual thought.
It's as simple as that.
- Joseph Campbell
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves
and our own self-preservation,
we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
- Joseph Campbell
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
- Joseph Campbell
A hero is someone who has given his life to
something bigger than himself
or something other than himself.
- Joseph Campbell
Your sacred space is where you can
find yourself again and again.
- Joseph Campbell
When you follow your bliss,
doors will open for you
that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell
When you make the sacrifice in marriage,
you're sacrificing not to each other
but to unity in a relationship.
- Joseph Campbell
Your life is the fruit of your own doing.
You have no one to blame but yourself.
- Joseph Campbell
Follow your bliss and doors will open
where there were no doors before.
- Joseph Campbell
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves
come when life seems most challenging.
- Joseph Campbell
The big question is whether you are going to be able
to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
- Joseph Campbell
It is by going down into the abyss
that we recover the treasures of life.
Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
- Joseph Campbell
God is Within You!
You yourself are the creator.
If you find that place within you
from which you brought this thing about,
you will be able to live with it and affirm it,
perhaps even enjoy it, as your life.
- Joseph Campbell
What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea.
It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience,
something that never has been and never could
have been experienced by anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell
The goal of life is
to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe,
to match your nature with Nature.
- Joseph Campbell
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life
as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
- Joseph Campbell
Love is a friendship set to music.
- Joseph Campbell
When you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track
that has been there all the while waiting for you,
and the life you ought to be living is the one you are living.
When you can see that, you begin to meet people
who are in the field of your bliss,
and they open the doors to you.
I say, follow your bliss and don't be afraid,
and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.
If you follow your bliss,
doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell
When people get married because they think
it's a long-time love affair,
they'll be divorced very soon,
because all love affairs end in disappointment.
But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.
- Joseph Campbell
I think the person who takes a job in order to live -
that is to say, for the money -
has turned himself into a slave.
- Joseph Campbell
Computers are like Old Testament gods;
lots of rules and no mercy.
- Joseph Campbell
God is, even though the whole world deny him.
Truth stands, even if there be no public support.
It is self-sustained.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Truth stands, even if there be no public support.
It is self-sustained.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
Writers, alas, have to be fools in public,
while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
- Erica Jong
Imagine for yourself a character,
a model personality whose example you determine to follow,
in private as well as in public.
- Epictetus
The time comes upon every public man
when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
- Abraham Lincoln
One should respect public opinion insofar
as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison,
but anything that goes beyond this
is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
- Bertrand Russell
Life expands to fill your dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All our dreams can come true,
if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney
The future belongs to those
who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
May your life always be Counterpoint to the Clamor of the World.
May you delight in Dancing Lightly With Life.
May you soar on eagle wings, high above the madness of the world.
May you always sing Melody in the Symphony of Your Life.
May you taste, smell, and touch your dreams of a beautiful tomorrow.
May your sun always shine, and your sky be forever blue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Trust your own inner guidance.
Have faith that your steps are
carrying you toward your dreams.
Keep your eyes on the heavens
and believe that your feet will carry you well.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Knowledge is limited.
Imagination encircles the world.
- Albert Einstein
Our actions are constrained by fear of reprisal,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As you awaken,
may your dreams greet you by name,
and may you answer, "Yes!"
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Opening my mind to Spirit, I trust my intuition to deliver
powerful visions of my inspired future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is full of beauty. Notice it.
Notice the bumble bee, the small child,
and the smiling faces.
Smell the rain, and feel the wind.
Live your life to the fullest potential,
and fight for your dreams.
- Ashley Smith
Choose to soar. Choose to fly your dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die,
life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
- Langston Hughes
No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered
with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
- Winston Churchill
We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic.
Different people, different beliefs,
different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
- Jimmy Carter
When I examine myself and my methods of thought,
I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy
has meant more to me than
any talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
Dreams are renewable no matter what our age.
- Dale Turner
It does not do to dwell on dreams, ...
and forget to live.
- the movie Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Follow Your Dreams.
- Anonymous
The only place where your dream becomes impossible
is in your own thinking.
- Robert H. Schuller
May Your Most Beautiful Dreams Become Your Reality.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The canvas of life awaits You -
the painter of your dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
Choose in ways that support your dreams.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Society censors our actions,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have had dreams, and I have had nightmares.
I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.
- Jonas Salk
Live Your Dreams.
- Les Brown
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb
The biggest adventure you can take is
to live the life of your dreams.
- Oprah Winfrey
Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations.
For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
- Henry David Thoreau
May you taste, smell, and touch
your dreams of a beautiful tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I think we dream so we don't have to be apart for so long.
If we're in each other's dreams, we can be together all the time.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Yes! it takes courage to act upon your dreams.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams.
- Anonymous
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children
of the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
- Napoleon Hill
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