"The adventure of the hero is the..." - Quote by Joseph Campbell

“Life, in both its knowing and its doing, has become today a "free fall," so to say, into the next minute, into the future. So that, whereas, formerly, those not wishing to hazard the adventure of an individual life could rest within the pale of a comfortably guaranteed social order, today all the walls have burst. It is not left to us to chooseto hazard the adventure of an unprecedented life: adventure is upon us, like a tidal wave.”

“Our life evokes our character. You find out more about yourself as you go on. That's why it's good to put yourself in situations that will evoke your higher nature rather than your lower.”

“A bit of advice Given to a young Native American At the time of his initiation: As you go the way of life, You will see a great chasm. Jump. It is not as wide as you think.”

“Nobody, they say, is a hero to his valet. Of course; for a man must be a hero to understand a hero. The valet, I dare say, has great respect for some person of his own stamp.”

“A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.”

“One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk.”

“Be lord of a day, through wisdom and justice, and you can put up your history books.”

“Men come together in cities in order to live: they remain together in order to live the good life”

“The universe, he observed, makes rather an indifferent parent, I am afraid.”