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Joseph Campbell Quotes: A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
         

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.


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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.



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Life is but a mask worn on the face of death. And is death, then, but another mask? 'How many can say,' asks the Aztec poet, 'that there is, or is not, a truth beyond?'

Life is but a mask worn on the face of death. And is death, then, but another mask? 'How many can say,' asks the Aztec poet, 'that there is, or is not, a truth beyond?'



Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.

Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.



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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.



When you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.

When you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.





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