We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

—Joseph Campbell

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About Joseph Campbell

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Joseph John Campbell (March 26, 1904 – October 30, 1987) was an American writer. He was a professor of literature at Sarah Lawrence College who worked in comparative mythology and comparative religion. His work covers many aspects of the human condition. Campbell's best-known work is his book The Hero with...

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Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.

—Joseph Campbell

To expect too much compassion from yourself might be a little destructive of your own existence. Even so, at least make a try, and this goes not only for individuals but also for life itself. It's so easy. It's a fashionable idiocy of youth to say the world has not come up to your expectations. "What? I was coming, and this is all they could prepare for me?" Throw it out. Have compassion for the world and those in it.

—Joseph Campbell

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Love is a friendship set to music.

—Joseph Campbell

If we think of ourselves as coming out of the earth, rather than having been thrown in here from somewhere else, we see that we are the earth; we are the consciousness of the earth. These are the eyes of the earth. And this is the voice of the earth.

—Joseph Campbell

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We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

—Joseph Campbell

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One possible reason why things aren't going according to plan is that there never was a plan.

—Ashleigh Brilliant

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We don't always plan what happens in our life. Sometimes things just unravel.

—Scott Hildreth in Finding Parker

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He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

—Thomas Paine

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

—Publilius Syrus

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