约瑟夫·坎贝尔的七句话

            
                英译汉：孙泽先

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

发现内心深处的快乐，这快乐会将痛苦付之一炬。

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

英雄是这样的人，他们把生命注入比自身更重大的事情上。

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.

我认为，一个为养家糊口而上班挣钱的人已经把自己变成奴隶。

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

我不相信人们会像寻求生存经验那样去寻求生活的意义。

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

当你把自己奉献给婚姻的时候，你奉献的对象不是彼此，而是两个人结成的整体。

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.

你的生活是你自己行为的结果，除了你自己，你不可以指责任何人。

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.

生活本无意义，是你把意义带入生活。生活的意义无非是你归结出来的。活着就是意义。

      约瑟夫·坎贝尔

（Joseph·Campbell，1904—1987），

美国研究比较神话学作家。他探讨人类文化中宗教信仰的共同点和神话的共性作用，并认为神话都有四个共性作用，这四个作用分别为神话学即形而上学，宇宙学，社会学和心理学。代表著作包括《千面一人的英雄》和《上帝的面具》。