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Call Quotes by Joseph Campbell
- There is no security in following the call to adventure.
- The usual marriage in traditional cultures was arranged for by the families. It wasn't a person-to-person decision at all. . . . In the Middle…
- Your adventure has to be coming out of your own interior. If you are ready for it then doors will open where there were no…
- There are mythologies that are scattered, broken up, all around us. We stand on what I call the terminal moraine of shattered mythic systems that…
- 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…
- The Navajo have that wonderful image of what they call the pollen path. The Navajo say, 'Oh, beauty before me, beauty behind me, beauty to…
- The call to adventure is the point in a person’s life when they are first given notice that everything is going to change, whether they…
- Dragons, you know, we have a good deal of biology and zoology about the dragon; we know their habits. The dragon tends to guard things,…
- There is what I would call the hero journey, the night sea journey, the hero quest, where the individual is going to bring forth in…
- Myth is what we call other people's religion.
- There seem to be only two kinds of people: Those who think that metaphors are facts, and those who know that they are not facts.…
- The hero’s journey always begins with the call. One way or another, a guide must come to say, 'Look, you’re in Sleepy Land. Wake. Come…
More Call Quotes
- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- Yeah, I know, some people are against drunk driving, and I call those people 'the cops.' But you know, sometimes, you've just… — Dave Attell
- All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which means characters… — Margaret Atwood
- There's a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke it, you… — Margaret Atwood
- The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion… — Saint Augustine
- My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what… — Jane Austen
- Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully… — Paul Auster
- I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.' — Lauren Bacall
- I would hate now to be married. It does occur to me on occasion that, if I fall and hit my head,… — Lauren Bacall