Quotes about Growth
It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
— Joseph Addison
The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light.
— Joseph Campbell
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
— Joseph Campbell
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
— Joseph Campbell
Marriage . . . is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92)
— Joseph Campbell
The problem of the hero is to pierce himself (and therewith his world) precisely through that point; to shatter and annihilate that key knot of his limited existence.
— Joseph Campbell
The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
— Joseph Campbell
Our life evokes our character. You find out more about yourself as you go on. That's why it's good to be able to put yourself in situations that will evoke your higher nature rather than your lower.
— Joseph Campbell
The hero is the champion of things becoming, not of things become, because he is.
— Joseph Campbell
Where you stumble, there your treasure lies.
— Joseph Campbell
first book of Corinthians: "When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
— Joseph Campbell
The passage to fulfillment lies between the perils of desire and fear.
— Joseph Campbell