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Something Quotes by Joseph Campbell
- A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
- 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…
- Sacred space and sacred time and something joyous to do is all we need. Almost anything then becomes a continuous and increasing joy. What you…
- Revolution doesn't have to do with smashing something, it has to do with bringing something forth. If you spend all your time thinking about that…
- Shakespeare said that art is a mirror held up to nature. And that’s what it is. The nature is your nature, and all of these…
- Anyone who has had an experience of mystery knows that there is a dimension of the universe that is not that which is available to…
- The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact
- Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up.
- One cannot predict the next mythology any more than one can predict tonight's dream; for a mythology is not an ideology. It is not something…
- The principle of compassion is that which converts disillusionment into a participatory companionship. This is the basic love, the charity, that turns a critic into…
- When you are in accord with nature, nature will yield its bounty. This is something that is coming up in our own consciousness now...recognizi ng…
- We keep thinking of deity as a kind of fact, somewhere; God as a fact. God is simply our own notion of something that is…
- In meditating, meditate on your own divinity. The goal of life is to be a vehicle for something higher. Keep your eyes up there between…
- You must have a place to which you can go in your heart, your mind, or your house, almost every day, where you do not…
- Perfection isn't human. Human beings are not perfect. What evokes our love--and I mean love, not lust--is the imperfection of the human being. So, when…
- There are something like 18 billion cells in the brain alone. There are no two brains alike; there are no two hands alike; there are…
- Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up. The earth must be broken to bring forth life. If the seed…
- 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…
- You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don’t know what was in the newspapers that morning, you…
- The usual hero adventure begins with someone from whom something has been taken, or who feels there is something lacking in the normal experience available…
- Life lives on life. This is the sense of the symbol of the Ouroboros, the serpent biting its tail. Everything that lives lives on the…
- When you find a writer who really is saying something to you, read everything that writer has written and you will get more education and…
- At first you might find that nothing happens there. But if you have a sacred space and use it, eventually something will happen. Your sacred…
More Something Quotes
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous. — J. J. Abrams
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail. — Giorgio Armani
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
- The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of. — J. J. Abrams
- I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in… — Fred Armisen