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“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.”
Joseph Campbell
“It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.”
Joseph Campbell
“The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.”
Joseph Campbell
“A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.”
Joseph Campbell
“One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.”
Joseph Campbell
“What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.”
Joseph Campbell
“When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.”
Marilyn Monroe
“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.”
John William Gardner
“We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.”
John William Gardner
“Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.”
John William Gardner
“If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.”
Marcus Garvey
“Progress is the attraction that moves humanity.”
Marcus Garvey
“Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.”
Khalil Gibran
“Love is trembling happiness.”
Khalil Gibran
“You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.”
Walter Hagen
“The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.”
Helen Hayes
“A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.”
Lou Holtz
“Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.”
Lou Holtz
“Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.”
Lou Holtz
“See, winners embrace hard work.”
Lou Holtz
“Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.”
Elbert Hubbard
“When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.”
Joseph Joubert
“If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.”
Andy Rooney
“Nothing in fine print is ever good news.”
Andy Rooney
“Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.”
Will Smith
“Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there.”
Will Smith
“I want the world to be better because I was here.”
Will Smith
“Whatever your dream is, every extra penny you have needs to be going to that.”
Will Smith
“The family is one of nature's masterpieces.”
George Santayana
“Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.”
George Santayana
