"Furthermore, we have not even to risk the adventure alone; for the heroes of all time have gone before us, the labyrinth is fully known; we have only to follow the thread of the hero-path. And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence; where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world."

-- Joseph Campbell

#Inspirational Quotes #Hero Quotes #Adventure Quotes

“No, no, it was the relationships. That was that group. People believed that Rob and Laura were really married in real life. You know, a lot of people believed that.”
“If we would talk less and pray more about them, things would be better than they are in the world: at least, we should be better enabled to bear them.”

Source : John Owen (1862). “The Works of John Owen”, p.319
“Ah, books." Ziegler, smiling, came up behind me. "They bob like corks on an ocean. Float between worlds, messages in bottles.”
“For the best part of my childhood I visited the local library three or four times a week, hunching in the stacks on a foam rubber stool and devouring children's fiction, classics, salacious thrillers, horror and sci-fi, books about cinema and origami and natural history, to the point where my parents encouraged me to read a little less.”
“The Americans had not played a very prominent part in the war of 1914-1918, he (Adolf Hitler) thought, and moreover, had not made any great sacrifices of blood. They would certainly not withstand a trial by fire, for their fighting qualities were low. In general no such thing as an American people existed as a unit; they were nothing but a mass of immigrants from many nations and many races.”
“The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction of the vocal organs.”

Source : Edgar Rice Burroughs (2015). “THE LOST WORLD COLLECTION: Out of Time’s Abyss, The Land That Time Forgot, The Moon Men, The Man-Eater and more (Illustrated): Caspak Trilogy, The Pellucidar Series, The Moon Trilogy, The People That Time Forgot, The Moon Maid, The Red Hawk, The Cave Girl, The Eternal Lover, Jungle Girl...”, p.1747, e-artnow
“Rapture's self is three parts sorrow.”
“To find health should be the object of the doctor. Any one can find disease.”

Source : Andrew Taylor Still (1902). “The Philosophy and Mechanical Principles of Osteopathy”

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