Quotes about Adventure
Thinking in mythological terms helps to put you in accord with the inevitables of this vale of tears. You learn to recognize the positive values in what appear to be the negative moments and aspects of your life. The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
- Joseph Campbell
The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
- Joseph Campbell
If you are going to have a story, have a big story, or none at all.
- Joseph Campbell
The adventure of the hero represents the moment in his life when he achieved illumination - the nuclear moment when, while still alive, he found and opened the road to the light beyond the dark walls of our living death
- Joseph Campbell
Chodte za svojim stastim a vesmir vam otvori dvere aj tam, kde dovtedy boli iba mury.
- Joseph Campbell
The hero is the champion of things becoming, not of things become, because he is.
- Joseph Campbell
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: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man.[6
- Joseph Campbell
Follow your bliss.
- Joseph Campbell
What I think is that a good life is one hero journey after another. Over and over again, you are called to the realm of adventure, you are called to new horizons. Each time, there is the same problem: do I dare? And then if you do dare, the dangers are there, and the help also, in the fulfillment or the fiasco. There's always the possibility of a fiasco. But there's also the possibility of bliss.
- Joseph Campbell
Turn around, Piglet. Step lightly, Pooh. This silly ol' dance is perfect for two.
- AA Milne
Wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest, a little boy and his Bear will always be playing.
- AA Milne
Now then, Pooh," said Christopher Robin, "where's your boat?" "I ought to say," explained Pooh as they walked down to the shore of the island, "that it isn't just an ordinary sort of boat. Sometimes it's a Boat, and sometimes it's more of an Accident. It all depends." "Depends on what?" "On whether I'm on the top of it or underneath it.
- AA Milne