Joseph Campbell
The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy -- not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy ? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call 'following your bliss'. If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.
Love is perfect kindness
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The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
No pain, No gain.
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
Love like you'll never be hurt.
Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes but that would be a mistake.
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.
If you love someone, set them free.
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We can not choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
Bitterness imprisons life, love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life, love empowers it. Bitterness sours life, love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life, love heals it. Bitterness blinds life, love anoints it's eyes.
Fill your hands, you son-of-a-bitch !
The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.
Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
For one person to love another, that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the last test and proof, the work for which all else is but preparation.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
Freedom from the known is death, and then you are living.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Our schools and are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work.
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.
Nature does nothing uselessly.
The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
One who seeks no friends is his own enemy.
Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
Who so loves believes the impossible.
To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
It is the level-headed man, the calm man, of good judgment and cool nerves, of great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.
Yippie-ki-yay, motherfucker !
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
No man can stand on top because he is put there.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere, they're in each other all along.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Love is like a mustard seed, planted by god and watered by men.
It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.
There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.
The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.
You only get out what you put in.
The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
What do they think I am, dumb or something ? Why, I make more money than Calvin Coolidge ! Put together !
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. It's eternal goal is life.
The dove is my emblem... . I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it... . I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
A mature man is his own judge. In the end, his only form of support is being faithful to his own convictions. The advice of others may be welcomed invaluable, but it does not free him from responsibility.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.
I bet you can squeal like a pig.
All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men , they act out their dreams to make them reality.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
There are no gains without pains.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
It is not our purpose to become each other , it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat. Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
Are great things ever done smoothly ? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.
If it matters to you, you will find a way. If it doesn't you will find an excuse
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out.
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
Don't fall victim to your own melodrama. Keep things in perspective. The odds are that your problem is solvable. Address the solution and don't dwell on the problem to the point at which it paralyzes you.
May you live all the days of your life.
Honesty is the best image.
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the truth.