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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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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You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don't know what was in the newspapers that morning… a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be.

—Joseph Campbell

Marriage is not a love affair. A love affair has to do with immediate personal satisfaction. Marriage is an ordeal; it means yielding, time and again. That's why it's a sacrament: you give up your personal simplicity to participate. And you are not giving to the other person; you are giving to the relationship. Because you are not giving to the other person, it is not impoverishing—it is life-building, life-fostering, enriching.

—Joseph Campbell

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.

—Joseph Campbell

Our schizophrenic patient is actually experiencing inadvertently that same beatific ocean deep which the yogi and saint are ever striving to enjoy: except that, whereas they are swimming in it, he is drowning.

—Joseph Campbell

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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

—Joseph Campbell

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Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment.

A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.

—George S. Patton

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood… Make big plans, aim high in hope and work.

—Daniel H. Burnham

Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Plan more than you can do, then do it.

The things that go wrong often make the best memories.

—Gretchen Rubin in The Happiness Project

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