Character Quote by Joseph Campbell Download Open image “Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life” — Joseph Campbell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Disaster Improvement Inspiration Life Stature
My life hasn't always been a disaster, it's just that when it has, it's been a spectacular disaster. — Boy George Copy Share Image
“In life, little happens by chance, and most bad hands we’re dealt are the consequence of our actions, which are shaped by our wisdom… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Any ordeal that you can survive as a human being is an improvement in your character, and usually an improvement in your life. — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
I always tell myself every disaster is more material for my work and another anecdote to tell. — Hugh Dennis Copy Share Image
No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“You can be brave and confident as you like, you can convince yourself that you’re invulnerable, that you know what you’re dealing with. You… — Mo Hayder Copy Share Image
The only way of enduring one disaster after the next is to love the very idea of disaster: if we succeed, there are no… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Disaster is a natural part of my evolution toward tragedy and dissolution. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Disaster usually happens for me when everything I have counted on has stopped working, including all my best skills, intentions, and good ideas.” — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“If your life is a disaster it is absolutely because you are a disaster.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“Our disaster personalities are more complex and ancient than we think. But they are also more malleable.” — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
If a person does not listen to the demands of their own spiritual and heart life and insists on a certain program, you're going… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The eternal principle, which never was born, never will die: it is in all things: it is in you now. You are the wave… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means 'filled with a god,' so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it.… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
What we're learning in our schools is not the wisdom of life. We're learning technologies, we're getting information. There's a curious reluctance on the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The fall [of your soul] from perfection into duality...was naturally followed by the discovery of the duality of good and evil...This is the Biblical… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
So that's what destiny is: simply the fulfillment of the potentialites of the energies in your own system. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Your ego is your embodiment and your self is your potentiality and that's what you listen to when you listen for the voice of… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
When you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that's always been there, waiting for you. And the life that you should… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To see life as a poem… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do… — David Hudgins Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced to face issues and emotions, feelings, that they have. So it kind of forces them to face it head on, which I think is a really interesting dynamic. And I think it should be interesting and… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image