Joseph Campbell

"When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity."

"Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again."

"Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble."

"Love is a friendship set to music."

"What we're learning in our schools is not the wisdom of life. We're learning technologies, we're getting information. There's a curious reluctance on the part of faculties to indicate the life values of their subjects."

"Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer."

"I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive."

"If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's."

"We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us."

"The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves"

"Love is a friendship set to music."

"Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself."

"A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself."

"A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself."

"We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us."

"Myth is what we call other people's religion."

"The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are."

"We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us."

"A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself."

"Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls."