The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
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JOSEPH CAMPBELL Enter, stranger, but take heed
Of what awaits the sin of greed,
For those who take, but do...
J.K. ROWLING A disciplined mind (saiyamit mun), a disciplined body (saiyamit deha) and a disciplined speech (saiy...
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WAYNE CHIRISA 'Star Wars' or 'The Lord of the Rings' deal with great big Joseph Campbell-style myt...
PETER DINKLAGE The path you fear to take may be the one filled with an abundance of riches you seek.
LORRIN L. LEE I've never read Joseph Campbell, and I don't know all that much about story archetypes.
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN Every person is a living treasure box. Listening holds the key.
MOLLIE MARTI The Gods only go with you if you put yourself in their path. And that takes courage.
MARY STEWART Your treasure - your perfection - is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the busy co...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Only a fortunate few seek the Beloved. Only a blessed few seek to enter the shrine of the heart.
DADA VASWANI Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is...
WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY, JR. It is not failure itself that holds people back; it is the fear of failure that paralyzes
you.
BRIAN TRACY The Word of God is a treasure map. That treasure map is the most valuable thing you have until you g...
ERIC LUDY The saying "seek first the kingdom",simply means seek first a veritable philosophy of life & abundan...
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LOUIS BINSTOCK Me: "Touch the cave wall."
Computer: "You touch the cave wall. It is moist."
Isaac: "Lick ...
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DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA You should enter a ballpark the way you enter a church.
BILL LEE Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS... I believe that this idea of story or myth or this thing that Joseph Campbell writes about is sort of...
DAMON LINDELOF The house you built can cave you in if you didn't do it right.
UNARINE RAMARU Life's irony;Fear the world for it is a dangerous place,for they are only waiting for you to arrive,...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power to overcome the thing you greatly fear is by learning never to leave the thing you fear al...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) You need music, I dont know why.It's probably one of those Joseph Campbell questions, why we need ri...
JERRY GARCIA If your heart is full of fear, you won't seek truth; you'll seek security. If a heart is full of lov...
WILLIAM SLOANE COFFIN, JR. If your heart is full of fear, you won't seek truth; you'll seek security. If a heart is full of lov...
WILLIAM SLOANE COFFIN JR. When selfishness is gone, then one becomes the Lord Himself; seek the Sanctuary of the treasure of m...
ATHARVA VEDA Dream Bravely. Find fearlessness inside of you. Dare, and fear will falter. Challenge, and fear will...
CAREW PAPRITZ The Book of Mormon is a second witness of Jesus Christ and a manifestation of the truthfulness of th...
DIETER F. UCHTDORF Any war or conflict you enter where you are likely to lose more Americans and expend more treasure i...
STANLEY A. MCCHRYSTAL And what else would he get into? Kavinsky's dead so--Jesus Chrirst, listen to me. Jesus Christ." The...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER You know, Glen Campbell sang with the group right before I joined the group.
BRUCE JOHNSTON You may dream of the future, or prepare for the future or even fear the future, but you may never en...
AARON SANTOS Life is a canvas it starts off plain and simple to become your own masterpiece.Gary F Evans...
GARY F EVANS... Little drops of rain Whisper of the pain Tears of love Lost in the days gone by.
ROBERT PLANT "THANK YOU" Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge...
MARILYN FRENCH You are just about to enter the results season. It's premature to take a large long position as you ...
KEVIN SCULLY What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Confused by the mind and diffused by the senses, we seek Pleasure and lose the great Treasure called...
RVM Everything has boundaries. The same holds true with thought. You shouldn't fear boundaries, but you ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI They hope to make you so mad at Bill Campbell that you will lose sight of justice.
BILLY MARTIN Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY You seek the heights of manhood when you seek the depths of God.
EDWIN LOUIS COLE Somewhere along the way, during this hunt for Glendower, he'd forgotten to notice how much magic the...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER If you're going to go to the moon, you don't shoot the rocket right at the moon. You have to...
DREW HOUSTON Treasure the things about you that make you different and unique.
KAREN KAIN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work!
DEYTH BANGER To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world...
GARY F EVANS... The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist.
APURVA GAGLANI If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ...
GARY F EVANS... i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g...
SIMI GREWAL Can you believe I have a favorite cave?
VERONICA ROSSI The Master's Sacred Knowledge.
Love is the treasure you should seek!
The grea...
ALLAN RUFUS ... when someone sees a soul disturbed and unable to see something, he won't laugh mindlessly, but h...
PLATO Seek out wisdom and when you find her she will tell you the answers you seek.
JIM GENOVESE Beauty is the light within. Only when you see the light within yourself will others see it in you.
F. JOHNSON Woe unto you if you have come to this world just to fear man,for man is nothing but ordinary dust wi...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Learn to cherish the chase as much as you treasure the trophy.
JOE CARUSO What you don’t understand you cannot treasure
SUNDAY ADELAJA How you're still always trapped.
How your head is the cave, your eyes the cave mouth. How...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK If you seek money, be wise; if you seek power, be strong; if you seek honor, be virtuous; if you see...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, becau...
MARILYN FERGUSON I'm an adventurer, looking for treasure
PAULO COELHO If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.
EDWARD KOCH Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
TECUMSEH In politics, it often pays to be ahead of the curve. That holds true for corporate governance too, e...
MMANTI UMOH It's not what the world holds for you. It's what you bring to it.
KEVIN SULLIVAN I read 'The Crystal Cave' book by Mary Stewart, and I thought it was a really, really intere...
COLIN MORGAN I didn't learn much about writing at Sarah Lawrence, but I learned a lot about the sources of po...
CAROLYN KIZER You go back to the start of time. One cave guy was fighting another cave guy because his club was bi...
DALE EARNHARDT Everywhere you hang your hat is home. Home is the bright cave under the hat.
LANCE MORROW Dumbledore was on his feet again, pale as any of the surrounding Inferi, but taller than any too, th...
J.K. ROWLING Knowing you is like hitting the biggest treasure of my life---treasure that makes my heart feel smal...
HAMEED QURESHI My God, Joseph, your toasted sandwiches are the fucking shit. You do know that right?
BETH ASHWORTH Darkness is nothing
but an opportunity
to spread light
JACKIE VIRAMONTEZ The only thing that holds true happiness is that moment when you're in it. Nothing can be contro...
ELIZA DOOLITTLE Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS I wait, you play. You speak, I cave. I promise, you break. You game me, daily, you play me.
COCO J. GINGER When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.
MARGARET ATWOOD When you seek advice, do not withhold any facts from the person whose advice you seek.
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LADY GAGA If you enter a goat stable, bleat; if you enter a water buffalo stable, bellow
INDONESIAN PROVERB You go back to the start of time. One cave guy was fighting another cave guy because his club was bi...
DALE EARNHARDT If you have good friends, don’t look for treasure because you are already rich; if you have just t...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN So to get back to being intimidated, yes, you get intimidated when you're on the runway with Nao...
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JOSEPH CAMPBELL Vegetarianism is the first turning away from life, because life lives on lives. Vegetarians are just...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL In choosing your god, you choose your way of looking at the universe. There are plenty of Gods. Choo...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL You should be willing to be eaten also. You are food body.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to th...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL The only way you can talk about this great tide in which you’re a participant is as Schopenhauer d...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL Every moment is utterly unique and will not be continued in eternity. This fact gives life its poign...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL The best way to help mankind is through the perfection of yourself.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL We must be willing to get rid of
the life we’ve planned, so as to have
the life that is ...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL Awe is what moves us forward.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to th...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL Nietzsche was the one who did the job for me. At a certain moment in his life,the idea came to him o...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL Writer’s block results from too much head. Cut off your head. Pegasus, poetry, was born of Medusa ...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL Follow your bliss.
If you do follow your bliss,
you put yourself on a kind of track
t...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL [I have no doubt that I stand here at the very center of creation. Every fir tree, each of its needl...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL I would say that all our sciences are the material that has to be mythologized. A mythology gives sp...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL You don't ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don't ask what the world means. You enjoy it. Yo...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner val...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves
JOSEPH CAMPBELL If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, w...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your ow...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL They thought that it would be a disgrace to go forth as a group. Each entered the forest at a point ...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
We must be willing to get rid of the l...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL You can't say life is useless because it ends in the grave.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL