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Alive Quotes by 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- The world without spirit is a wasteland. People have the notion of saving the world by shifting things around, changing the rules, and who's on…
- The adventure of the hero is the adventure of being alive
- Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and its…
- Myths are so intimately bound to culture, time, and place that unless the symbols, the metaphors, are kept alive by constant recreation through the arts,…
- For people who are really alive to have life awakened is more important than to get a sandwich.
- People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re…
- We save the world by being alive ourselves.
- I don’t think people are really seeking the meaning of Life. I think we’re seeking an experience of being alive…we want to feel the rapture…
- Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another.
- Following your bliss is not self-indulgent, but vital; your whole physical system knows that this is the way to be alive in this world and…
- 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…
- I don't believe people are searching for the meaning of life. I believe they are searching for that feeling of being alive.
More Alive Quotes
- There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of… — David Attenborough
- No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think,… — Marcus Aurelius
- I think if we didn't contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive. — Paul Auster
- Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't. — Richard Bach
- The Holy Spirit is our comforter, our teacher. That's why, in prayer, we can ask the Lord to open up Scripture and… — Michele Bachmann
- A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for… — Pearl Bailey
- It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all… — James A. Baldwin
- I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul,… — Ansel Adams
- My biggest fear ever is to be involved in a plane crash, so when that happened... well, I'm just thankful to be… — Travis Barker
- As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I've… — Roseanne Barr
- The real truth is, I just want to keep the voice of dissent alive in all of our elections. I don't really… — Roseanne Barr