"I don't believe people are looking for..." - Quote by Joseph Campbell
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
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“Every act has both good and evil results. The best we can do is lean to the light.”
“When you no longer are compelled by desire and fear . . . when you have seen the radiance in eternity from all forms of time . . . when you follow your bliss . . . doors will open where you would not have thought there were doors . . . and the world will step in and help.”
“Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life”
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“It was a harder day's journey than yesterday's, for there were long and weary hills to climb; and in journeys, as in life, it is a great deal easier to go down hill than up. However, they kept on, with unabated perseverance, and the hill has not yet lifted its face to heaven that perseverance will not gain the summit of at last.”
“Don't just count your days, make your days count.”
“Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.”
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“I think what I want Disneyland to be most of all is a happy place - a place where adults and children can experience together some of the wonders of life, of adventure, and feel better because of it.”
“True teaching cannot be learned from text-books any more than a surgeon can acquire his skill by reading about surgery.”
“We become lovers when we see Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet makes us students. The blood of Duncan is upon our hands, with Timon werage against the world, and when Lear wanders out upon the heath the terror of madness touches us. Ours is the white sinlessness of Desdemona, and ours, also, the sin of Iago.”