Joseph Campbell

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

"I don't have to have faith, I have experience."

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

"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."

"Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths."

"One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that."

"Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy."

"The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature."

"The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are."

"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."

"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."

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

"Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again."