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Life Is Quotes by Joseph Campbell
- Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.
- 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…
- The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
- What I think is that a good life is one hero journey after another. Over and over again, you are called to the realm of…
- Christianity isn’t moving people’s lives today. What’s moving people’s lives is the stock market and the baseball scores. What are people excited about? It’s a…
- 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…
- You are more than you think you are. There are dimensions of your being and a potential for realization and consciousness that are not included…
- Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if…
- Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure.
- In meditating, meditate on your own divinity. The goal of life is to be a vehicle for something higher. Keep your eyes up there between…
- 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…
- The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
- Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it.
- How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means 'filled with a god,' so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it. So…
- Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself... The problem is not to blame or explain…
- It [music] has an awakening function. Life is a rhythm. Art is an organization of rhythms. Music is a fundamental art that touches our will…
- In one of the Upanishads it says, when the glow of a sunset holds you and you say 'Aha,' that is the recognition of the…
- Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and…
- The first step to the knowledge of the wonder and mystery of life is the recognition of the monstrous nature of the earthly human realm…
- The big problem of any young person's life is to have models to suggest possibilities. Nietzsche says, 'Man is the sick animal.' Man is the…
- 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…
More Life Is Quotes
- I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business. — Chester A. Arthur
- Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. — Isaac Asimov
- The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters. — Mary Astell
- If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in life is… — David Attenborough
- The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you're opposed to it. But when you're writing… — Margaret Atwood
- Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart. — Kevyn Aucoin
- We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and… — Saint Augustine
- The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks… — Marcus Aurelius
- Our life is what our thoughts make it. — Marcus Aurelius
- Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil. — Marcus Aurelius
- To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution. — Marcus Aurelius
- Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a… — Sri Aurobindo