#mo

The usual hero adventure begins with someone from whom something has been taken, or who feels there is something lacking in the normal experience available or permitted to the members of society. The person then takes off on a series of adventures beyond the ordinary, either to recover what has been lost or to discover some life-giving elixir. It's usually a cycle, a coming and a returning. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#experience

If people and their manner of living were alike everywhere, there would not be much point in moving from one place to another. ↗

— Paul Bowles

#another #everywhere #living #manner #moving

His view of me and my ways were expressed with some degree of force to our family physician who, when at the age of a hundred and fifty-three I came down with the mumps, having summoned the whole family and said that I would burst before morning, was met by a reassuring observation from Adam that he wouldn't believe I was dead even if I had been buried a year. "It is the good who die young, Doctor," he said. "On that principle this young malefactor will live to be the oldest man in the world. ↗

— John Kendrick Bangs

#age

I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness. ↗

— Brandon Boyd

#excited #happiness #i #important #important ways

Compared to the United States, physicians in Europe have a much more conservative approach to joint replacement in general. ↗

— Allen Boyd

#compared #conservative #europe #general #joint

Our government has made a number of promises to the men and women who served in our nation's armed forces. Sadly, these promises of health care, education and other benefits have existed more in rhetoric than in reality. ↗

— Allen Boyd

#armed forces #benefits #care #education #existed

Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature. ↗

— Malcolm Boyd

#both #deeply #differences #essential #huge

The experience reminds me of a favorite saying: Most of the yield from research efforts comes from the coal that is mined while looking for diamonds. ↗

— Paul D. Boyer

#comes #diamonds #efforts #experience #favorite

I thought I was going to be a lot more freaked out by being naked onstage. I think on film I would have been more freaked out, because film is less forgiving. But onstage it's lit so beautifully. It would make my mother look good. ↗

— Lorraine Bracco

#because #been #being #film #forgiving

Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have. ↗

— Ed Bradley

#better #hard #harder #hope #little