Quote by Joseph Campbell
Mythologies, in other words, mythologies and religions are great p

Mythologies, in other words, mythologies and religions are great poems and, when recognized as such, point infallibly through things and events to the ubiquity of a – Joseph Campbell

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If you follow your bliss, doors will open for you that wouldnt have opened for anyone else. – Joseph Campbell

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Passion
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It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. – Joseph Campbell

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Life
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He said myths and mythology wasnt to give meaning to life but to give us an experience of life, an experience of vitality in being alive. – Joseph Campbell

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There is nothing truer than myth: history, in its attempt to realize myth, distorts it, stops halfway; when history claims to have succeeded, this is nothing but humbug and mystification. Everything we dream is realizable. Reality does not have to be: it is simply what it is. – Eugene Ionesco

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in mens minds without their being aware of the fact. – Claude Levi-Strauss

It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths. – Greil Marcus

Myths which are believed in tend to become true. – George Orwell

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Natural childbirth has evolved to suit the species, and if mankind chooses to ignore her advice and interfere with her workings we must not complain about the consequences. We have only ourselves to blame. – Margaret Jowitt

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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction. – Jean de la Bruyere

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Only after I faced the unhappiness of my first marriage did I start on the path of personal growth. – Judith Wright

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It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union…. Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less. – Susan B. Anthony

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