"Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves..." - Quote by Joseph Campbell
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when lifeseems most challenging. Negativism to the pain and ferocity of life is negativism to life. We are not there until we can say 'yea' to it all.
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“If you really want to help this world, what you will have to teach is how to live in it.”
“Men sometimes confess they love war because it puts them in touch with the experience of being alive. In going to the office every day, you don't get that experience, but suddenly in war, you are ripped back into being alive. Life is pain; life is suffering; and life is horror - but, by God, you are alive.”
“If you follow someone else's way, you are not going to realize your potential.”
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“You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.”
“Every company has room for the man who has a definite plan of action which is to the advantage of that company.”
“Today is an opportunity to do something positive. Today is your chance to add new value to your life and to your world. Make the commitment to fill this day with meaningful richness and purposeful effort. This is your day to live, so do so with vigor and enthusiasm.”
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“To get into just those situations where sham virtues will not suffice, but rather where, as with the ropedancer on his rope, one either falls or stands--or gets down.”
“The only way out is to go through”
“We seldom break a leg as long as we are climbing wearily upwards in our lives, instead we do it when we start going easy on ourselves and choosing the comfortable paths.”