You know the rule: If you are falling, dive. Do the thing that has to be done. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The object becomes aesthetically significant when it becomes metaphysically significant. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
If you can see your path clearly in front of you, it's probably someone else's. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
If you follow someone else's way, you are not going to realize your potential. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The Greeks, it will be recalled, regarded Eros, the god of love, as the eldest of the gods; but also as the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Economics and politics are the governing powers of life today, and that's why everything is so screwy. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man, it is my hometown love of the human, the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Mythology is often defined as 'other peoples' religions', religion can be thought of as misinterpreted mythology. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The seizure of passionate love can be, in such a context, only illicit, breaking in upon the order of one's dutiful life… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Marriage is not a love affair. A love affair has to do with immediate personal satisfaction. Marriage is an ordeal; it means… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Perfection isn't human. Human beings are not perfect. What evokes our love--and I mean love, not lust--is the imperfection of the human… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Modern romance, like Greek tragedy, celebrates the mystery of dismemberment, which is life in time. The happy ending is justly scorned as… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
This death to the logic of emotional commitments of our chance moment in the world of space and time, this recognition of,… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The world, as we know it, is coming to an end. The world as the center of the universe, the world divided… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The principle of compassion is that which converts disillusionment into a participatory companionship. This is the basic love, the charity, that turns… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
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… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“CAMPBELL: Read myths. They teach you that you can turn inward, and you begin to get the message of the symbols. Read… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Nietzsche was the one who did the job for me. At a certain moment in his life,the idea came to him of… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Moyers: Then what does love have to do with morality? Campbell: Violates it…Insofar as love expresses itself, it is not expressing itself… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
And then he says, "The writer must be true to truth." And that's a killer, because the only way you can describe… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“There is an important idea in Nietzsche, of Amor fati , the "love of your fate," which is in fact your life.… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Nietzsche was the one who did the job for me. At a certain moment in his life, the idea came to him… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Marriage is not a love affair. A love affair is a totally different thing. A marriage is a commitment to that which… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
If a person does not listen to the demands of their own spiritual and heart life and insists on a certain program, you're going… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The eternal principle, which never was born, never will die: it is in all things: it is in you now. You are the wave… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means 'filled with a god,' so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it.… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
What we're learning in our schools is not the wisdom of life. We're learning technologies, we're getting information. There's a curious reluctance on the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The fall [of your soul] from perfection into duality...was naturally followed by the discovery of the duality of good and evil...This is the Biblical… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
So that's what destiny is: simply the fulfillment of the potentialites of the energies in your own system. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Your ego is your embodiment and your self is your potentiality and that's what you listen to when you listen for the voice of… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
When you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that's always been there, waiting for you. And the life that you should… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To see life as a poem… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
![“Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain. Love itself is pain, you might say -the pain of being truly alive. [...] But love bears all things. [...] Love itself is pain, you might say - the pain of being truly alive.” quote by Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d20/joseph-campbell-300_life_love-is-the-burning-point-of-life-and-si_3227751.jpg)
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