Quotes About Heroic Journey

#1. Interestingly, it's as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey, the embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.

Alan Hirsch

#2. A Quest of any kind is a heroic journey. It is a rite of passage that carries you to an inner place of silence and majesty and encourages you to live life more courageously and genuinely.

Denise Linn

#3. When you accept your imperfections-and still are willing to brush yourself off and start again-you can make changes ... for you are on a heroic journey of the heart. To me this is the best kind of hero. The kind of hero I strive to be.

Denise Linn

#4. America sold VX nerve gas and anthrax to Iraq for years, even after the Halabja gas attack, which killed thousands of Kurds.

Henry Rollins

#5. I have found that you have only to take that one step toward the gods, and they will then take ten steps toward you. That step, the heroic first step of the journey, is out of, or over the edge of, your boundaries, and it often must be taken before you know that you will.

Joseph Campbell

#6. To have contrary [negative, wrong] intellect has become an odd rule in this current era, hasn't it? The one who proceeds with caution will win.

Dada Bhagwan

#7. When you're writing fiction, you don't have notes necessarily. You don't carve it, it's not like a piece of sculpture, it's more like water color.

Joan Didion

#8. If we had loads of money as a family, things would be different and they'd come to visit more and I'd get to spend more time here. But I'm laying down roots in America so when I'm there, just being at home, it's harder to break away from that.

Rick Allen

#9. I feel like I'm wasting time if I repeat myself.

Heath Ledger

#10. Winds blew, evil winds, winds that pissed on the citizens, piss disguised as rain.

Orly Castel-Bloom

#11. The epoch of individuality is concluded, and it is the duty of reformers to initiate the epoch of association. Collective man is omnipotent upon the earth he treads.

Giuseppe Mazzini

#12. Once, I thought I had a novel, and it turned out it was only a short story. I wrote about 800 pages, but it ended up being a short story. And if it ever happens to me again, I Will Go Insane.

Richard Bausch

#13. Very large scale disasters, especially those that have occurred in the developing world, have very long recovery periods.

Irwin Redlener

#14. When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

Eric Hoffer

#15. You may weep more if you wish it, he announced, feeling exceedingly generous.

Lynn Kurland

#16. I would say that the emblematic photographic image is a picture from inside a room looking out. I think this defines photography. It's the metaphor for the notion of first sight. What one saw first.

Robert Polidori

#17. The United States is the result of an enlightened philosophy; China is the outcome of traditions and history.

Patrick Mendis