Quotes by Joseph Campbell

• I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
• 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.
• Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
• Love is a friendship set to music.
• Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?
• I don't have to have faith, I have experience.
• Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.
• God is a metaphor for that which trancends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.
• Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
• 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.
• Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
• A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
• It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
• When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
• Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
• Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.
• The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
• The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
• The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
• We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
• We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.
• 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.
• Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
• When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
• Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.
• 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.
• When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.
• Greatness is not measured by the heights you reach, but by the depths from which you rise.
• Sometimes you have to let go of the life you have planned, to make room for the life that is waiting for you.
• Character is not built in moments of ease and comfort, but in times of challenge and adversity.
• Strength grows in the moments when you think you can't go on but you keep going anyway.
• We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
• Success is not about getting to the destination, but enjoying the journey with all its twists and turns.
• Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
• Strength lies in embracing your fears, not in avoiding them.
• Embrace the chaos, for within it lies the seeds of transformation and growth.
• Do not be afraid to stand alone, for true strength lies in the courage to embrace your uniqueness.
• Wisdom is not in the knowing, but in the willingness to keep learning.
• We must let go of the life we have planned in order to embrace the one that is waiting for us.
• Dreams are like stars; you may never touch them, but if you follow them, they will lead you to your destiny.
• We must be willing to let go of the life we've planned, to have the life that is waiting for us.
• The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
• We must let go of the life we have planned, to embrace the one that is waiting for us.
• We must be willing to let go of the life we had planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
• We must let go of the life we have planned, to accept the one that is waiting for us.
• Success is not in the achieving, but in the striving.
• The cave you fear to enter holds the treasures you seek
• Success is not in what we gather, but in who we become.
• Success is not about finding happiness but creating it.
• The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature
• Do what you love and the universe will open doors where there were only walls
• Follow your bliss, and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.
• We must be willing to let go of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
• Do what you love and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.