Aging Quote by Joseph Campbell Download Open image “As a white candle / In a holy place, / So is the beauty / Of an aged face” — Joseph Campbell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Aging Beauty Candle Faces Holy Holy places White
“Her face, the face of a saint, a viking Madonna, shone through the faint motes that snowed across the candlelight, drew down its flush… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Don't be fooled by my beauty - the light of my face comes from the candle of my spirit. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Even though life may have moved wearily and painfully through such a person, they have still managed not to let it corrode their soul.… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
Dear Lord, who made the face of me not all that I would have it be, not really homely, only plain, but strong and… — Ruth Perry Copy Share Image
“Aesthetical expression of calmness and contentment glow on our face after burning ego into ashes” — Kishore Bansal Copy Share Image
It is lovely to meet an old person whose face is deeply lined, a face that has been deeply inhabited, to look in the… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
“On a dais in a London church, the Virgin Mary sits suprised by a rough crest of candlelight. The discomforture isn't in her expression… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
This beautifully stiched skin as white as wax, just like when they were alive. Their mouths that cannot clamour noisily or tell lies any… — The Undertaker Copy Share Image
O little souls! as pure as white And crystalline as rays of light Direct from heaven, their source divine; Refracted through the mist of… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Though beauty is, with the most apt similitude, I had almost said with the most literal truth, called a flower that fades and dies… — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
There is a slow-growing beauty which only comes to perfection in old age… I have seen sweeter smiles on a lip of seventy than… — Alexander Smith 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
In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only… — Tom Vilsack Copy Share Image
“Prayer of an Anonymous Abbess: Lord, thou knowest better than myself that I am growing older and will soon be old. Keep me from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The more I produce, the less I am certain. On the road along which the artist walks, night falls ever more densely. Finally, he… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and shrink to sordid, selfish,… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Aging is like enlightenment at gunpoint. Before I had cancer, I lived my life for my art. After I had cancer, I lived my… — Anna Halprin Copy Share Image
All the dangers in our world are like a blessed wake up call. They tell us to live life NOW... not tomorrow, not when… — Susan Jeffers Copy Share Image
“You could see the signs of female aging as diseased, especially if you had a vested interest in making women too see them your… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image