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#1

“I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page.”
― Naomi Shihab Nye

tags: books, literature, reading, words

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#2

“Every second he breathed, the smell of the grass, the cool air on his face, was so precious: To think that people had years and years, time to waste, so much time it dragged, and he was clinging to each second.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

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#3

“We are all victims of what is done to us. We can either use that as an excuse for failure, knowing that if we fail it isn't really our fault, or we can say, 'I want something better than that, I deserve something better than that, and i'm going to try to make myself a life worth living.”
― Howard Dully, My Lobotomy

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#4

“Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier. ”
― Kathleen Thompson Norris, Hands Full of Living

tags: books

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#5

“Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.”
― Joseph Campbell

tags: meaning-of-life

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#6

“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
― Joseph Campbell

tags: change, life, open-heart, open-mind, resilience

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#7

“If you do 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. Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.”
― Joseph Campbell

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#8

“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.”
― Joseph Campbell

tags: action, belief, faith, follow-your-bliss, life

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#9

“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.”
― Joseph Campbell, A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

tags: hero-s-journey

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#10

“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”
― Joseph Campbell

tags: cave, fear

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#11

“People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances with our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.”
― Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

tags: inspirational

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#12

“If you are falling....dive.”
― Joseph Campbell

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#13

“If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.”
― Joseph Campbell

tags: life

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#14

“Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.”
― Joseph Campbell, Creative Mythology

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#15

“Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.”
― Joseph Campbell

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#16

“Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time.”
― Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

tags: advice-for-daily-living, inspirational, reading

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#17

“Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.”
― Joseph Campbell

tags: inspirational, life-lesson, spirituality

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#18

“Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.”
― Joseph Campbell

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#19

“All religions are true but none are literal.”
― Joseph Campbell

tags: morality, religion

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#20

“We're not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.”
― Joseph Campbell

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#21

“Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half contends that they are not facts at all. As a result we have people who consider themselves believers because they accept metaphors as facts, and we have others who classify themselves as atheists because they think religious metaphors are lies.”
― Joseph Campbell, Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor

tags: atheists, believers, metaphor, myth, organized-religion, religion, theists

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#22

“The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.”
― Joseph Campbell, A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

tags: hero-s-journey, life, nature, universe

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#23

“Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.”
― Joseph Campbell

tags: inspirational

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#24

“I sincerely hope I’ll never fathom you. You’re mystical, serene, intriguing; you enclose such charm within you. The lustre of your presence bewitches me. I like the unreality of your mind; the whole thing is very splendid and voluptuous and absurd. It is not mere words on paper, Mrs. Nicholson, it is both my mind and heart addressing you.”
― Virginia Woolf

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#25

“If you love something, set it free, if it comes back to you, it's yours; if not, then he's an asshole.”
― Ali Wentworth, Ali in Wonderland: And Other Tall Tales

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#26

“She will choose a bath over a shower, a play over a movie, and the ocean over a pool. She has saved herself from intense pain in her life with strong, pulled-up bootstraps and terrifying organizational skills. She has the legs for tennis, the grace for skiing, and such high-arched eyebrows they could bring the Supreme Court to their knees.”
― Ali Wentworth, Ali in Wonderland: And Other Tall Tales – A Funny and Warm Memoir from Washington Elite to Hollywood Comedy

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#27

“The triumph was mustering up the courage to believe in the value of my purpose and myself. For lunch I treated myself to a Philly cheesesteak hero; after all, it was a big day for me: I had grown a pair of balls. Marriage HERE’S ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT MEN AND WOMEN: WOMEN ARE CRAZY, MEN ARE STUPID.”
― Ali Wentworth, Happily Ali After: And Other Fairly True Tales

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#28

“If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with.”
― Noel Langley, The Wizard of Oz Screenplay

tags: contentment, desire, home, satisfaction

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#29

“Now I know I've got a heart because it is breaking.
- Tin Man”
― Noel Langley, The Wizard of Oz Screenplay

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#30

“I shall take the heart. [...] For brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

tags: 55, happiness, life-lesson, thoughts

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