Neil Stone

“The best way to help mankind is through the perfection of yourself.”
― Joseph Campbell, A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

“Intellectually, she recognized the summer could’ve lasted only so many days, but, in remembrance, it seemed to last epochs, from the creation of the Milky Way to its expiration. Not because the time was dull but rather it was so damn fun and so life-affirming, it could’ve been a magical potion concocted to revive the dead. Even in her advanced age, she could see that time, so clearly delineated in what the novelist John Dos Passos called the Camera Eye—mental snapshots, frozen in bliss, which neither age nor time could mar their perfection.”
― Ray Smith, The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen

“Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it.”
― Joseph Campbell, A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

“In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship.
You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it.
Awe is what moves us forward.”
― Joseph Campbell, A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living