More quotes by Joseph Campbell

"We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us."
"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."
"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."
"Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is."