What gods are there, what gods have there ever been, that were not from man’s imagination?
For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man, it is my hometown love of the human, the living and ordinary.
He must put aside his pride, his virtue, beauty and life and bow or submit to the absolutely intolerable.
The senses are a kind of reason. Taste, touch and smell, hearing and seeing, are not merely a means to sensation, enjoyable or otherwise, but they are also a means to knowledge – and are, indeed, your only actual means to knowledge.
A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder. Fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won.
If you follow someone else’s way, you are not going to realize your potential.
When you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that’s always been there, waiting for you. And the life that you should be living, is the one that you will be living.
The latest incarnation of Oedipus, the continued romance of Beauty and the Beast, stand this afternoon on the corner of 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue, waiting for the traffic light to change.
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.
I always tell my students follow your bliss. When you have that feeling then stay with it and don’t let anyone throw you off.
Heroism is a matter of integrity – beco ming more and more at each step ourselves.
We are standing on a whale fishing for minnows.
Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
The call to adventure signifies that destiny has summoned the hero.
You can’t say life is useless because it ends in the grave.
Whether you call someone a hero or a monster is all relative to where the focus of your consciousness may be.
Wars and temper tantrums are the makeshifts of ignorance; regrets are illuminations come too late.
The person who thinks he has found the ultimate truth is wrong.
Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it.
First you must find your trajectory, and then comes the social coordination.