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Lecturer Inspirational Quotes (1887)

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Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
Joseph Campbell
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When your mind is simply trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have misread the image.
Joseph Campbell
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Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
Gloria Steinem
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For the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the self-scattering of the wakened state.
Joseph Campbell
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A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that.
Herman Melville
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When you follow your bliss, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you.
Joseph Campbell
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Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
Joseph Campbell
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The more hideous the mental contortions, the greater the delight and bravos of the mass.
Emma Goldman
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Youth is immortal Tis the elderly only grow old!
Herman Melville
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There is no life in thee, now, except that rocking life imparted by a gently rolling ship by her, borrowed from the sea by the sea, from the inscrutable tides of God.
Herman Melville
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To let the child do as he likes when he has not yet developed any powers of control is to betray the idea of freedom.
Maria Montessori
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Human beings are communal beings and we can't exist or prosper by ourselves. We need each other's support.
Gloria Steinem
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Laughter, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss.
Allen Klein
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I believe that there is something far nobler than loyalty to any particular man. Loyalty to the truth as we perceive it - loyalty to our duty as we know it - loyalty to the ideals of our brain and heart - is, to my mind, far greater and far nobler than loyalty to the life of any particular man or God. . . .
Robert Green Ingersoll
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Consciousness is an illusion constructed by the memes.
Susan Blackmore
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What's your vision of what you think should happen? How can you make it happen? Go stand in your power and walk with intention to make it so.
Gloria Feldt
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Everywhere I go I see increasing evidence of people swirling about in a human cesspit of their own making.
Norman Angell
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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 wonderful poetic images of mythology are referring to something in you. When your mind is trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have misread the image.
Joseph Campbell
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One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment.
Joseph Campbell
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A government which can protect and defend its citizens from wrong and outrage and does not is vicious. A government which would do it and cannot is weak and where human life is insecure through either weakness or viciousness in the administration of law, there must be a lack of justice and where this is wanting, nothing can make up the deficiency.
Frances Harper
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Women have two choices: Either she's a feminist or a masochist.
Gloria Steinem
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There are now no more horizons. And with the dissolution of horizons we have experienced and are experiencing collisions, terrific collisions, not only of peoples but also of their mythologies. It is as when dividing panels are withdrawn from between chambers of very hot and very cold airs: there is a rush of these forces together.
Joseph Campbell
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It is still not clear from this study how laughter can directly help the heart but other studies have shown that laughter is beneficial for every system in the body.
Allen Klein
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Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life.
Joseph Campbell
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