Joseph Campbell

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

"If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be."

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

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

"All religions are true but none are literal."