Joseph Campbell

Quotes

• “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 ...”
• “What we're learning in our schools is not the wisdom of life. We're learning technologies, we're getting information. Th...”
• “When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love...”
• “Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own ...”
• “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 ar...”
• “I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive...”
• “Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.”
• “We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
• “We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.”
• “Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.”
• “A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.”
• “Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.”
• “Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.”
• “The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves”
• “Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.”
• “If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.”
• “The fates lead him who will; him who won't they drag.”
• “The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.”
• “Myth is what we call other people's religion.”
• “All religions are true but none are literal.”
• “Love is a friendship set to music.”