2,981 Quotes About Adventure

  • Author John Carroll
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    A teleology directed to material ends has been substituted for the lust for adventure, variety, and play.

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  • Author Joseph Campbell
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    The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure-- fearlessness and achievement.

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  • Author Joseph Campbell
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    This is all I ever wanted - to help students and artists see myth as a reflection of the one sublime adventure of life, and then to breathe new life into it.

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  • Author Joseph Campbell
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    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.

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  • Author Joseph Campbell
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    Questing... is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.

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  • Author Joseph Campbell
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    Your adventure has to be coming out of your own interior. If you are ready for it then doors will open where there were no doors before, and where there would not be doors for anyone else. And you must have courage. It's the call to adventure, which means there is no security, no rules.

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