The hero, whether god or goddess, man or woman, the figure in a myth or the dreamer of … - Joseph Campbell

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I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.

Joseph Campbell

The hero, whether god or goddess, man or woman, the figure in a myth or the dreamer of a dream discovers and assimilates his opposite (his own unsuspected self) either by swallowing it or by being swallowed.

Dream, Goddess, Hero, Men, Unsuspected, Woman

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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.

Achievement, Adventure, Courage, Yield, Yields

Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.

Let, Rock, Rocks, Wave, Waves, World

You are more than you think you are. There are dimensions of your being and a potential for realization and consciousness that are not included in your concept of yourself. Your life is much deeper and broader than you conceive it to be here. What you are living is but a fractional inkling of what is really within you, what gives you life, breadth, and depth.

Conceive, Depth, Giving, Included, Living, Thinking

If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else's; the whole point is to find your own way.

Inspirational, Path, Point, Way, Whole

Breaking out is following your bliss pattern, quitting the old place, starting your hero journey, following your bliss. You throw off yesterday as the snake sheds its skin.

Hero, Journey, Snake, Snakes, Starting

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Thomas Brooks

There are three things that earthly riches can never do; they can never satisfy divine justice, they can never pacify divine wrath, nor can they every quiet a guilty conscience. And till these things are done man is undone.

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George Carlin

I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.

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John Green

But pizza was originally Italian, although, Italian pizza doesn't taste much like this because this pizza is fortified with sodium. Which is a mineral. . . or a vitamin. All I know is that it's good for you.

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Julian Baggini

The capacity to make free choices is not something we either have entirely or not at all. Rather, choices become freer the more they are the result of our own capacity to reflect on and assess facts and arguments.

Argument, Choices, Facts, Reflect, Result

Joshua Foer

As bad as we are at remembering names and phone numbers and word-for-word instructions from our colleagues, we have really exceptional visual and spatial memories.

Memories, Motivation, Inspiration, Spatial, Exceptional, Instructions