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

- Joseph Campbell

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

- Joseph Campbell

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.

- The Power of Myth , Joseph Campbell

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

- Joseph Campbell

God is a metaphor for that which trancends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.

- 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.

- Joseph Campbell

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

- The Power of Myth , Joseph Campbell

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.

- Joseph Campbell

Love is a friendship set to music.

- Joseph Campbell

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

- Joseph Campbell

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

- Joseph Campbell

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

- Joseph Campbell

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

- Joseph Campbell

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

- A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living , Joseph Campbell

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

- Joseph Campbell

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

- Joseph Campbell