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[Quote No.40616] Need Area: Fun > Anticipation
"To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness [or else you don’t have anything to look forward to]. " - Bertrand Russell
winner Nobel Prize for Literature, 1950
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[Quote No.40620] Need Area: Fun > Anticipation
"For all that has been – Thanks!! To all that shall be – Yes!! " - Dag Hammarskjold
winner Nobel Prize for Peace, 1961
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[Quote No.40635] Need Area: Fun > Anticipation
"It is hope that gives life a meaning. And hope is based on the prospect of being able one day to turn the actual world into a possible one that looks better." - Francois Jacob
winner Nobel Prize for Medicine, 1965
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[Quote No.40637] Need Area: Fun > Anticipation
"Remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune!" - Boris Pasternak
winner Nobel Prize for Literature, 1958
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[Quote No.40639] Need Area: Fun > Anticipation
"In the depth of winter [difficulties], I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer [hope]." - Albert Camus
winner Nobel Prize for Literature, 1957
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[Quote No.40641] Need Area: Fun > Anticipation
"Without [hope and] confidence in a cause, there is no action. Ignorance may be enlightened, superstition wiped out; intolerance may become tolerant, and hate be changed into love; ideas may be quickened, intelligence widened, and men’s hearts may be ennobled; but from pessimism which can see nothing but gloomy visions nothing is to be expected." - Klas Arnoldson
winner Nobel Prize for Peace, 1908
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[Quote No.40643] Need Area: Fun > Anticipation
"[Never give up hope. Never give in to pessimism. Never despair.] No horse named Morbid ever won a race!" - Ernest Hemingway
winner Nobel Prize for Literature, 1954
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[Quote No.40644] Need Area: Fun > Anticipation
"To deride the hope of progress is the ultimate fatuity, the last word in poverty of spirit and meanness of mind. " - Peter Medawar
winner Nobel Prize for Medicine, 1960
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[Quote No.40646] Need Area: Fun > Anticipation
"Defeatism about the past is a grievous error; defeatism about the future is a crime!" - Philip Noel-Baker
winner Nobel Prize for Peace, 1959
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[Quote No.40688] Need Area: Fun > Anticipation
"I have had dreams and I’ve had nightmares. It is because of my dreams that I have overcome my nightmares. " - Linus Pauling
winner Nobel Prize for Chemistry, 1954; Peace, 1962
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[Quote No.40690] Need Area: Fun > Anticipation
"Find your own dream! Keep this dream and take good care of it and then sometime you will accomplish something [and feel the intense satisfaction that only the achievement of a long held, worthwhile goal can give]. " - Koichi Tanaka
winner Nobel Prize for Chemistry, 2002
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[Quote No.40692] Need Area: Fun > Anticipation
"Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream – whatever that dream might be. [So if you want to be happy don't ever give up on yourself and your dream.]" - Pearl S. Buck
winner Nobel Prize for Literature, 1938
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[Quote No.40694] Need Area: Fun > Anticipation
"From my earliest youth, I have known that while one is obliged to plan with care the stages of one’s journey, one is entitled to dream, and keep dreaming, of its destination." - Shimon Peres
winner Nobel Prize for Peace, 1994
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[Quote No.40870] Need Area: Fun > Anticipation
"Genuine fearlessness arises with the confidence that we will be able to gather the inner resources to deal with any situation that comes our way." - Matthieu Ricard
Initially a young researcher in cellular genetics at the French Institut Pasteur with Nobel Prize in Medicine winner, Francois Jacob, he has for the last 35 years been a Buddhist Monk, living and working on humanitarian projects in Tibet and Nepal. He has been dubbed the ‘happiest person in the world’ by the popular media. Quote from his best-selling book, ‘The Art of Happiness- A Guide to Developing Life’s Most Important Skill’.
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[Quote No.40897] Need Area: Fun > Anticipation
"When hearing a door creak, the optimist thinks it’s opening and the pessimist thinks it’s closing." - Matthieu Ricard
Initially a young researcher in cellular genetics at the French Institut Pasteur with Nobel Prize in Medicine winner, Francois Jacob, he has for the last 35 years been a Buddhist Monk, living and working on humanitarian projects in Tibet and Nepal. He has been dubbed the ‘happiest person in the world’ by the popular media. Quote from his best-selling book, ‘The Art of Happiness- A Guide to Developing Life’s Most Important Skill’.
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[Quote No.40898] Need Area: Fun > Anticipation
"Although the optimist may be a little giddy when foreseeing the future, telling himself that it will all work out in the end when that isn’t always the case, his attitude is more fruitful since, in the hope of undertaking a hundred projects, followed up by diligent action, the optimist will end up completing fifty. Conversely, in limiting himself to undertake a mere ten, the pessimist might complete five at best and often fewer, since he’ll devote little energy to a task he feels to be doomed from the start." - Matthieu Ricard
Initially a young researcher in cellular genetics at the French Institut Pasteur with Nobel Prize in Medicine winner, Francois Jacob, he has for the last 35 years been a Buddhist Monk, living and working on humanitarian projects in Tibet and Nepal. He has been dubbed the ‘happiest person in the world’ by the popular media. Quote from his best-selling book, ‘The Art of Happiness- A Guide to Developing Life’s Most Important Skill’.
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[Quote No.40899] Need Area: Fun > Anticipation
"But there is an even deeper dimension to optimism, that of realizing the potential for transformation [growth towards full potential, personal evolution, self-actualisation] that is in every human being, regardless of his or her condition. It is that potential, in the end, that gives meaning to human life [refer existentialism]. The ultimate pessimism is in thinking that life in general is not worth living [and therefore thoughts of suicide]. The ultimate optimism lies in understanding that every passing moment is a treasure, in joy as in adversity. These are not subtle nuances, but a fundamental difference in the way of seeing things [perspective]." - Matthieu Ricard
Initially a young researcher in cellular genetics at the French Institut Pasteur with Nobel Prize in Medicine winner, Francois Jacob, he has for the last 35 years been a Buddhist Monk, living and working on humanitarian projects in Tibet and Nepal. He has been dubbed the ‘happiest person in the world’ by the popular media. Quote from his best-selling book, ‘The Art of Happiness- A Guide to Developing Life’s Most Important Skill’.
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[Quote No.41001] Need Area: Fun > Anticipation
"It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living! " - Oliver Wendell Holmes

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[Quote No.41155] Need Area: Fun > Anticipation
"Feel the fear and do it anyway." - Susan Jeffers

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[Quote No.41210] Need Area: Fun > Anticipation
"The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to [wisely] be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come." - Peter Ustinov

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[Quote No.41279] Need Area: Fun > Anticipation
"Happiness consists in the full employment of our faculties in some pursuit." - Harriett Martineau

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[Quote No.41315] Need Area: Fun > Anticipation
"A task worth doing makes life worthwhile!" - Unknown

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[Quote No.41316] Need Area: Fun > Anticipation
"Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice!" - Arnold J. Toynbee

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[Quote No.41355] Need Area: Fun > Anticipation
"[Anticipation - with hope:] While researching the saying, 'This too shall pass away' as an example of eternal, timeless, ever applicable wisdom, I was struck by the idea that I knew another phrase that met the same criteria that this phrase was famous for doing, namely, as 'a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations' with the 'ability to make the happy [and proud] man [or woman], sad [and humble] and the sad man [or woman], happy [and hopeful]'. Let me explain:--- In 1852, the English poet Edward Fitzgerald included, unattributed, in his collection 'Polonius: A Collection of Wise Saws and Modern Instances', a version of a many-told tale, entitled 'Solomon's Seal'. It described a sultan requesting from King Solomon a sentence that would always be true in good times or bad; Solomon responded, 'This too will pass away'. This phrase and story had been recorded in many cultures over thousands of years, including Jewish, Arabic and Turkish folklore, to make the point that neither good nor bad lasts for ever and that 'all things are temporary'. The phrase seems to have originated in the writings of the medieval Persian Sufi poets, and is often attached to a fable of a great king who is humbled by the simple words. Some versions of the fable, beginning with that of Attar of Nishapur, add the detail that the phrase is inscribed on a ring, which therefore has the ability to make the happy man, sad and the sad man, happy. On September 30, 1859, Abraham Lincoln included a story similar to both Fitgerald's and the Sufi poet's criteria, in an address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society in Milwaukee: "It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: 'And this, too, shall pass away.' How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!" -- So the criteria that this phrase 'This too shall pass away' was famous for again was as, from Fitzgerald, 'a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations' with, from the Sufi poets, the 'ability to make the happy [and proud] man [and woman], sad [and humble] and the sad man [or woman], happy [and hopeful]'. The other phrase that I thought would meet the same criteria is 'It could be worse or better.' This is true and appropriate in any and all times and situations, because 'all things are relative, as well as temporary.' It also has the 'ability to make the happy [and proud] man [or woman], sad [and humble]' - because whatever he or she is happy or proud about 'could be better and may become worse' - and the 'ability to make...the sad man [or woman], happy [and hopeful]' - because whatever he or she is sad about 'could be worse and may become better'. I particularly like the phrase 'It could be worse' because it is always true and it makes me grateful and happy, all the time. I also like the phrase 'It could be better' because it too is always true and it helps me enjoy my past achievements and satisfactions with humility rather than excessive pride and then set goals in the future that I can anticipate hopefully, all the time. The phrase 'This too shall pass away', which is always true, helps me try to make the most of each moment and opportunity for they are fleeting and I will not live for ever and it helps me to persist through challenges as they can't last unchanged for ever. I hope you find these phrases that encapsulate the eternal truth that 'all things are relative and temporary' as helpful as I have." - Ben O'Grady
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Imagi-Natives' Company and the www.imagi-natives.com website. [The background historical explanation was based on information found at wikipedia.org and retrieved 9th May, 2012. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_too_shall_pass ]
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[Quote No.41449] Need Area: Fun > Anticipation
"I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else." - Winston Churchill
British Prime Minister during World War II and a winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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[Quote No.41453] Need Area: Fun > Anticipation
"Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our [negative] imagination." - Christian Nevell Bovee

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[Quote No.41456] Need Area: Fun > Anticipation
"Every exit is an entry somewhere else." - Tom Stoppard

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[Quote No.41479] Need Area: Fun > Anticipation
"Cultivate more joy by arranging [planning and organising] your life so that more joy will be likely." - Georgia Witkin

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[Quote No.41537] Need Area: Fun > Anticipation
"Worry is when you choose from millions of possible thoughts, only the few which deal with a potential misfortune or problem. Once you accept your worrying as the act of choosing specific thoughts, you can consciously make an effort to avoid those thoughts that cause you needless pain and choose more constructive, positive thoughts." - Rabbi Zelig Pliskin
Quote from his book, 'Gateway to Happiness', pp.157-8.
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[Quote No.41587] Need Area: Fun > Anticipation
"Hope is the ability to hear the music of the future; faith is the courage to dance to it today." - Peter Kuzmic
theologian and author. Quote from 'Guideposts' article, Sept 2002.
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[Quote No.41831] Need Area: Fun > Anticipation
"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." - Jim Morrison

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[Quote No.42274] Need Area: Fun > Anticipation
"Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear." - Dale Carnegie

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[Quote No.42312] Need Area: Fun > Anticipation
"Where there is no vision, there is no hope!" - George Washington Carver

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[Quote No.42373] Need Area: Fun > Anticipation
"You can always have it better. If you try... [This is the right attitude:] Never to feel [completely] satisfied, always to want to do something better!" - Alex Kapranos

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[Quote No.42398] Need Area: Fun > Anticipation
"[Freedom, individualism and being yourself, so long as it doesn't hurt the physical person or property of another:] To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying 'Amen' to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to keep your soul alive." - Robert Louis Stevenson

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[Quote No.42535] Need Area: Fun > Anticipation
"Live so that you can at least get the benefit of the doubt [about the future]." - Kin Hubbard

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[Quote No.42560] Need Area: Fun > Anticipation
"Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea [or goal] which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness." - Leon Trotsky

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[Quote No.42628] Need Area: Fun > Anticipation
"The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination." - Marion Zimmer Bradley

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[Quote No.42707] Need Area: Fun > Anticipation
"This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes [with gratitude that it isn't worse]." - Robert E. Speer

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[Quote No.42726] Need Area: Fun > Anticipation
"The things you don't have control over, you don't worry about. I have control over my attitude, my perception, how I do things, and you do the very best job you can. Other people have control over other things and you let them do their jobs." - Mike Sherman

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[Quote No.42760] Need Area: Fun > Anticipation
"Be carefree yet careful: While you should work on overcoming unnecessary worrying, have a healthy fear of danger and sensibly guard yourself from harm. Overcoming worry does not mean putting yourself in danger, but in having a calm attitude in dealing with difficulties and accepting what cannot be changed." - Rabbi Zelig Pliskin
Quote from his book, 'Gateway to Happiness', p.158.
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[Quote No.42903] Need Area: Fun > Anticipation
"[When anything happens, we interpret it as good or bad, but...] We do not know what is really good or bad fortune. [Only the future can decide. For example, what appears to be bad today may in fact lead us to a greater good tomorrow and by the very act of thinking and planning in that positive way, we can help make that good future come true.]" - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
(1712 – 1778), Franco-Swiss philosopher of the Enlightenment whose political ideas influenced the French Revolution, the development of socialist theory, and the growth of nationalism.
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[Quote No.42921] Need Area: Fun > Anticipation
"[Freedom, individualism and being yourself, so long as you don’t hurt another’s physical person or property:] If you do follow your bliss [your unique interests, enthusiasms, dreams, etc.,] you put yourself on a kind of track [your 'hero's journey'] that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living [your 'destiny'] is the one you are living!" - Joseph Campbell
(1904 – 1987), American professor, writer, and orator best known for his work in the fields of comparative mythology and comparative religion. His work is vast, covering many aspects of the human experience. Campbell's seminal work, ‘The Hero with a Thousand Faces’ (1949), discusses what Campbell called the monomyth — the cycle of the journey of the hero — a term that he borrowed directly from Joyce's ‘Finnegans Wake’. His work, ‘The Masks of God’, written between 1962 and 1968, in four-volumes covers mythology from around the world, from ancient to modern. Where ‘The Hero with a Thousand Faces’ focused on the commonality of mythology (the ‘elementary ideas’), ‘The Masks of God’ books focus upon historical and cultural variations the monomyth takes on (the ‘folk ideas’). In other words, where ‘The Hero with a Thousand Faces’ draws perhaps more from psychology, ‘The Masks of God’ books draw more from anthropology and history. The four volumes of ‘The Masks of God’ are as follows: ‘Primitive Mythology’, ‘Oriental Mythology’, ‘Occidental Mythology’, and ‘Creative Mythology’. At the time of his death, Campbell was in the midst of working upon a large-format, lavishly illustrated series entitled ‘Historical Atlas of World Mythology’. This series was to build on Campbell’s idea, first presented in ‘The Hero with a Thousand Faces’, that myth evolves over time through four stages: -1- ‘The Way of the Animal Powers’—the myths of Paleolithic hunter-gatherers which focus on shamanism and animal totems; -2- ‘The Way of the Seeded Earth’—the myths of Neolithic, agrarian cultures which focus upon a mother goddess and associated fertility rites; -3- ‘The Way of the Celestial Lights’—the myths of Bronze Age city-states with pantheons of gods ruling from the heavens, led by a masculine god-king, and; -4- ‘The Way of Man’—religion and philosophy as it developed after the Axial Age (c. 6th century BC), in which the mythic imagery of previous eras was made consciously metaphorical, reinterpreted as referring to psycho-spiritual, not literal-historical, matters. This transition is evident in the East in Buddhism, Vedanta, and philosophical Taoism; and in the West in the Mystery Cults, Platonism, Christianity and Gnosticism. Other well-known works of his are ‘Myths to Live By’ (1972), ‘Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation’ (2004) and ‘A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living’ (1991). Quote from his book, ‘Reflections on the Art of Living’.
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[Quote No.42927] Need Area: Fun > Anticipation
"[Freedom, individualism and being yourself so long as you don't hurt another's physical person or property:] Wherever the hero may wander, whatever he may do, he is ever in the presence of his own essence — for he has the perfected eye to see. There is no separateness. In the absence of an effective general mythology, each of us has his private, unrecognized, rudimentary, yet secretly potent pantheon of dreams!" - Joseph Campbell
(1904 – 1987), American professor, writer, and orator best known for his work in the fields of comparative mythology and comparative religion. His work is vast, covering many aspects of the human experience. Campbell's seminal work, ‘The Hero with a Thousand Faces’ (1949), discusses what Campbell called the monomyth — the cycle of the journey of the hero — a term that he borrowed directly from Joyce's ‘Finnegans Wake’. His work, ‘The Masks of God’, written between 1962 and 1968, in four-volumes covers mythology from around the world, from ancient to modern. Where ‘The Hero with a Thousand Faces’ focused on the commonality of mythology (the ‘elementary ideas’), ‘The Masks of God’ books focus upon historical and cultural variations the monomyth takes on (the ‘folk ideas’). In other words, where ‘The Hero with a Thousand Faces’ draws perhaps more from psychology, ‘The Masks of God’ books draw more from anthropology and history. The four volumes of ‘The Masks of God’ are as follows: ‘Primitive Mythology’, ‘Oriental Mythology’, ‘Occidental Mythology’, and ‘Creative Mythology’. At the time of his death, Campbell was in the midst of working upon a large-format, lavishly illustrated series entitled ‘Historical Atlas of World Mythology’. This series was to build on Campbell’s idea, first presented in ‘The Hero with a Thousand Faces’, that myth evolves over time through four stages: -1- ‘The Way of the Animal Powers’—the myths of Paleolithic hunter-gatherers which focus on shamanism and animal totems; -2- ‘The Way of the Seeded Earth’—the myths of Neolithic, agrarian cultures which focus upon a mother goddess and associated fertility rites; -3- ‘The Way of the Celestial Lights’—the myths of Bronze Age city-states with pantheons of gods ruling from the heavens, led by a masculine god-king, and; -4- ‘The Way of Man’—religion and philosophy as it developed after the Axial Age (c. 6th century BC), in which the mythic imagery of previous eras was made consciously metaphorical, reinterpreted as referring to psycho-spiritual, not literal-historical, matters. This transition is evident in the East in Buddhism, Vedanta, and philosophical Taoism; and in the West in the Mystery Cults, Platonism, Christianity and Gnosticism. Other well-known works of his are ‘Myths to Live By’ (1972), ‘Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation’ (2004) and ‘A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living’ (1991). Quote from ‘The Hero with a Thousand Faces’ (1949), Chapter 1.
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[Quote No.42961] Need Area: Fun > Anticipation
"We're in a free-fall into the future. We don't know where we're going. Things are changing so fast, and always when you're going through a long tunnel, anxiety comes along. And all you have to do to transform your hell into a paradise is to turn your fall into a voluntary act. It's a very interesting shift of perspective and that's all it is... joyful [acceptance and] participation in the [challenges, joys, fears and] sorrows and everything changes!" - Joseph Campbell
(1904 – 1987), American professor, writer, and orator best known for his work in the fields of comparative mythology and comparative religion. His work is vast, covering many aspects of the human experience. Campbell's seminal work, ‘The Hero with a Thousand Faces’ (1949), discusses what Campbell called the monomyth — the cycle of the journey of the hero — a term that he borrowed directly from Joyce's ‘Finnegans Wake’. His work, ‘The Masks of God’, written between 1962 and 1968, in four-volumes covers mythology from around the world, from ancient to modern. Where ‘The Hero with a Thousand Faces’ focused on the commonality of mythology (the ‘elementary ideas’), ‘The Masks of God’ books focus upon historical and cultural variations the monomyth takes on (the ‘folk ideas’). In other words, where ‘The Hero with a Thousand Faces’ draws perhaps more from psychology, ‘The Masks of God’ books draw more from anthropology and history. The four volumes of ‘The Masks of God’ are as follows: ‘Primitive Mythology’, ‘Oriental Mythology’, ‘Occidental Mythology’, and ‘Creative Mythology’. At the time of his death, Campbell was in the midst of working upon a large-format, lavishly illustrated series entitled ‘Historical Atlas of World Mythology’. This series was to build on Campbell’s idea, first presented in ‘The Hero with a Thousand Faces’, that myth evolves over time through four stages: -1- ‘The Way of the Animal Powers’—the myths of Paleolithic hunter-gatherers which focus on shamanism and animal totems; -2- ‘The Way of the Seeded Earth’—the myths of Neolithic, agrarian cultures which focus upon a mother goddess and associated fertility rites; -3- ‘The Way of the Celestial Lights’—the myths of Bronze Age city-states with pantheons of gods ruling from the heavens, led by a masculine god-king, and; -4- ‘The Way of Man’—religion and philosophy as it developed after the Axial Age (c. 6th century BC), in which the mythic imagery of previous eras was made consciously metaphorical, reinterpreted as referring to psycho-spiritual, not literal-historical, matters. This transition is evident in the East in Buddhism, Vedanta, and philosophical Taoism; and in the West in the Mystery Cults, Platonism, Christianity and Gnosticism. Other well-known works of his are ‘Myths to Live By’ (1972), ‘Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation’ (2004) and ‘A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living’ (1991). Quote from ‘Sukhavati’, (2002, reissued 2007).
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[Quote No.42965] Need Area: Fun > Anticipation
"Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil." - Aristotle

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[Quote No.42982] Need Area: Fun > Anticipation
"The great affair, the love affair with life, is to live as variously as possible, to groom one's curiosity like a high-spirited thoroughbred, climb aboard, and gallop over the thick, sun-struck hills every day. Where there is no risk, the emotional terrain is flat and unyielding, and, despite all its dimensions, valleys, pinnacles, and detours, life will seem to have none of its magnificent geography, only a length. It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between." - Diane Ackerman
'found poetry' from 'A Natural History of the Senses'
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[Quote No.43004] Need Area: Fun > Anticipation
"[Do you worry unnecessarily about the future? Remember most fears are just False Evidence Appearing Real. Don't let unfounded fears rob you of the joys of life or you too will say...] There has been much tragedy in my life; [and] at least half of it actually happened." - Mark Twain

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[Quote No.43052] Need Area: Fun > Anticipation
"There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings...Fear [False Evidence Appearing Real] grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light. " - Dorothy Thompson

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