"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
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"I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.“
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"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
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"Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble."
-Joseph Campbell
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"God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that."
-Joseph Campbell
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"When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship."
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"The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature."
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"There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way."
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"What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life."
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"Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change."
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"Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare."
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