{"author":"Joseph Campbell","author_id":"Joseph+Campbell","total_quotes":153,"quotes":[{"text":"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 meaning.","author":"Joseph Campbell","tags":["meaning","meaning of life "],"id":2192,"author_id":"Joseph+Campbell"},{"text":"Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.","author":"Joseph Campbell","tags":["inspirational"],"id":2972,"author_id":"Joseph+Campbell"},{"text":"Follow your bliss and doors will open where there were no doors before.","author":"Joseph Campbell","tags":["inspiration","motivation","personal-transformation"],"id":7119,"author_id":"Joseph+Campbell"},{"text":"Our life evokes our character. You find out more about yourself as you go on. That’s why it’s good to be able to put yourself in situations that will evoke your higher nature rather than your lower.","author":"Joseph Campbell","tags":["character","development","learning","life"],"id":7704,"author_id":"Joseph+Campbell"},{"text":"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 part of faculties to indicate the life values of their subjects.","author":"Joseph Campbell","tags":["education","mythology"],"id":12949,"author_id":"Joseph+Campbell"},{"text":"God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.","author":"Joseph Campbell","tags":["god","simple","thought "],"id":18493,"author_id":"Joseph+Campbell"},{"text":"How to get rid of ego as dictator and turn it into messenger and servant and scout, to be in your service, is the trick.","author":"Joseph Campbell","tags":["ego","self-awareness","self-control"],"id":18775,"author_id":"Joseph+Campbell"},{"text":"One finds the same basic mythological themes in all the religions of the world, from the most primitive to the most sophisticated, from the North American plains to European forests to Polynesian atolls. The imagery of myth is a language, a lingua franca that expresses something basic about our deepest humanity. It is variously inflected in its various provinces.","author":"Joseph Campbell","tags":["humanity","myth","mythology","religion"],"id":23296,"author_id":"Joseph+Campbell"},{"text":"It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60).","author":"Joseph Campbell","tags":["arrogance","god","hubris","impudence","understanding"],"id":23620,"author_id":"Joseph+Campbell"},{"text":"A hero ventures forth from the worldof common day into a region ofsupernatural wonder. Fabulous forcesare there encountered and a decisivevictory is won.","author":"Joseph Campbell","tags":["fantasy","hero-s-journey","mythology-fiction"],"id":35160,"author_id":"Joseph+Campbell"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":153,"pages":16,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}