Joseph Campbell

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.

We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

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.

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.

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

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.