Quotes by Lecturers - Page 18

If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
Joseph Campbell
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe can we not take the leap?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.
Henry Giles
Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Language is fossil poetry
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
You don't ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don't ask what the world means. You enjoy it. You don't ask what you mean. You enjoy it.
Joseph Campbell
How to get rid of ego as dictator and turn it into messenger and servant and scout, to be in your service, is the trick.
Joseph Campbell
Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Write every day, line by line, page by page, hour by hour. Do this despite fear. For above all else, beyond imagination and skill, what the world asks of you is courage, courage to risk rejection, ridicule and failure. As you follow the quest for stories told with meaning and beauty, study thoughtfully but write boldly. Then, like the hero of the fable, your dance will dazzle the world.
Robert McKee
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes by making them the fruit of his character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you translate the Bible with excessive literalism, you demythologize it. The possibility of a convincing reference to the individual's own spiritual experience is lost. (111)
Joseph Campbell
Historians have shown that "parents in the Middle Ages worried about their kids no less than we worry about ours today," and by the nineteenth century there is evidence of bars being placed on windows to protect toddlers from falling out as well as "leading strings so that young children wouldn't wander off during walks.
Alfie Kohn
The images of Myth are reflections of Spiritual and Depth potentialities of every one of us. Through contemplating those we evoke those powers in our own lives to operate through ourselves.
Joseph Campbell
Although drinking to the point of becoming incapacitated is unwise and risky for anyone, the blame for rape must be put on the rapist who preys on a drunk woman, not a drunk woman who becomes prey. If my car is stolen after I’ve parked it with the door unlocked in a neighborhood known for car theft, a crime has been committed, and I have the right and expectation to report the crime to the police. No one would tell me that the thief is the one who deserves sympathy, and that apprehending him would ruin his life. No one would tell me I’m a terrible person for getting my car stolen, and that I deserve to have my car stolen. They would be right to question my judgment, but not the fact that a crime has been committed. But when it comes to rape, the victim’s pre-rape actions are used to justify the crime.
Leora Tanenbaum
Money will buy a pretty good dog but it won't buy the wag of his tail.
Josh Billings
It is a happy talent to know how to play.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We acquire the strength we have overcome.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Writer’s block results from too much head. Cut off your head. Pegasus, poetry, was born of Medusa when her head was cut off. You have to be reckless when writing. Be as crazy as your conscience allows.
Joseph Campbell
Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
SMILE!!!!! TODAY is the TOMORROW you worried about YESTERDA"Y
Dale Carnegie
For people who like that kind of thing, this is the kind of thing they like.
Artemus Ward
Three out of ten women in the United States have an abortion by the time they are forty-five years old. And women who need abortions get abortions, whether or not the procedure is legal or safe, according to the Guttmacher Institute. Blaming women who need abortions through slut-shaming is not only morally reprehensible, it also is medically irresponsible.
Leora Tanenbaum
To fill the hour──that is happiness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Spiritual growth is the gradual, I would say, transition from a God of tradition to a God of experience.
Neville Goddard
Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The earth laughs in flowers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love, and you shall be loved.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
Joseph Campbell
Man should not be in the service of society, society should be in the service of man. When man is in the service of society, you have a monster state, and that's what is threatening the world at this minute.
Joseph Campbell
Scatter joy!
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Flowers and fruits are always fit presents; flowers, because they are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. These gay natures contrast with the somewhat stern countenance of ordinary nature: they are like music heard out of a work-house. Nature does not cocker us; we are children, not pets; she is not fond; everything is dealt to us without fear or favor, after severe universal laws. Yet these delicate flowers look like the frolic and interference of love and beauty. Men use to tell us that we love flattery even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted. Something like that pleasure, the flowers give us: what am I to whom these sweet hints are addressed?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love looks through a telescope envy through a microscope.
Josh Billings
Give all to love obey thy heart.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Live in day-tight compartments.
Dale Carnegie
The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitants of the northern temperate zone wiser and abler than his fellow who enjoys the fixed smile of the tropics.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
All men are poets at heart.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Even god doesn't propose to judge a man till his last days, why should you and I?
Dale Carnegie
The only way you can talk about this great tide in which you’re a participant is as Schopenhauer did: the universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.
Joseph Campbell
I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world I thank God I am alive.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man but he is brave five minutes longer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Marrying for love may be a bit risky but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
Josh Billings
If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.
Joseph Campbell
No matter our talent, we all know in the midnight of our souls that 90 percent of what we do is less than our best.
Robert McKee
Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work youbelieve in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you willfind happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
Dale Carnegie
You really can't follow a guru. You can't ask somebody to give The Reason, but you can find one for yourself; you decide what the meaning of your life is to be. People talk about the meaning of life; there is no meaning of life--there are lots of meanings of different lives, and you must decide what you want your own to be.
Joseph Campbell
It is not the length of life, but the depth.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Humans need to be a little crazy, spontaneous, unusual, free-flowing, and creative.
Stuart Wilde
Act as if you were already happy and that will tend to make you happy.
Dale Carnegie
To look deep into your child's eyes and see in him both yourself and something utterly strange, and then to develop a zealous attachment to every aspect of him, is to achieve parenthood's self-regarding, yet unselfish, abandon. It is astonishing how often such mutuality had been realized - how frequently parents who had supposed that they couldn't care for an exceptional child discover that they can. The parental predisposition to love prevails in the most harrowing of circumstances. There is more imagination in the world than one might think.
Andrew Solomon
Do research. Feed your talent. Research not only wins the war on cliche, it's the key to victory over fear and it's cousin, depression.
Robert McKee
As a man thinketh so is he and as a man chooseth so is he.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Imitation cannot go above its model.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world belongs to the energetic.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
All writing is discipline, but screenwriting is a drill sergeant.
Robert McKee
Artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like bees they must put their lives into the sting they give.
Ralph Waldo Emerson