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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world
Joseph Campbell
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Joseph Campbell
Age: 83 †
Born: 1904
Born: March 26
Died: 1987
Died: October 30
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Ethnologist
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Historian Of Religion
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White Plains
New York
Joseph John Campbell
Joseph Cambell
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Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.
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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 inspiration and the voice of 'What am I here for? What can I possibly make of myself?'
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Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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Whenever men have looked for something solid on which to found their lives, they have chosen not the facts in which the world abounds, but the myths of an immemorial imagination.
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If you're going to have a story, have a big story, or none at all.
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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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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.
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Man actually needs the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him.
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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.
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You've got to find the force inside you.
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When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.
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