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Joy will burn out pain

4 April 2016 By Andrew Leave a Comment

Joseph Campbell

Find a place where there’s joy / and the joy will burn out the pain.

— Joseph Campbell, A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell Book 2)

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Adversity is like a strong wind

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Arthur Golden

Adversity is like a strong wind. I don’t mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are, and not merely as we might like to be.

— Arthur Golden, /Memoirs of a Geisha/ (Random House, 2008, p348)

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Building from the past

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Doménico Cieri Estrada

Bring the past only if you are going to build from it.

— Doménico Cieri Estrada (attrib.), Unknown

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