"A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself."
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Joseph Campbell
31 quotes
Quotes by Joseph Campbell
"Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself."
"Love is a friendship set to music."
"Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls."
"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."
"Love is a friendship set to music."
"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."
"We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us."
"Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is."
"Love is a friendship set to music."
"The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves"
"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."
"Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again."
"Love is a friendship set to music."
"Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls."
"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."
"The fates lead him who will; him who won't they drag."
"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."
"We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us."