All Time Famous Joseph Campbell Quotes

Joseph John Campbell (March 26, 1904 – October 30, 1987) was an American writer. He was a professor of literature at Sarah Lawrence College who worked in comparative mythology and comparative religion. His work covers many aspects of the human experience. Campbell’s best-known work is his book The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949), in which he discusses his theory of the journey of the archetypal hero shared by world mythologies, termed the monomyth. Since the publication of The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Campbell’s theories have been applied by a wide variety of modern writers and artists. His philosophy has been summarized by his own often repeated phrase: “Follow your bliss.” He gained recognition in Hollywood when George Lucas credited Campbell’s work as influencing his Star Wars saga. Campbell’s approach to folklore topics such as myth and his influence on popular culture has been the subject of criticism, especially from academic folklorists.

Joseph Campbell Quotes

1. “You are the hero of your own story.”
— Joseph Campbell

2. “All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.”
— Joseph Campbell

3. “We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
— Joseph Campbell

4. “The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”
— Joseph Campbell

5. “Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.”
— Joseph Campbell

6. “Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.”
— Joseph Campbell

7. “The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.”
— Joseph Campbell

8. “If you are falling, dive.”
— Joseph Campbell

9. “Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.”
— Joseph Campbell

10. “If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.”
— Joseph Campbell

11. “Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.”
— Joseph Campbell

12. “A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.”
— Joseph Campbell

13. “Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.”
— Joseph Campbell

14. “The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.”
— Joseph Campbell

15. “I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.”
— Joseph Campbell

16. “Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.”
— Joseph Campbell

17. “If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be.”
— Joseph Campbell

18. “People forget facts, but they remember stories.”
— Joseph Campbell

19. “There is perhaps nothing worse than reaching the top of the ladder and discovering that you’re on the wrong wall.”
— Joseph Campbell

20. “The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves.”
— Joseph Campbell

21. “The call to adventure signifies that destiny has summoned the hero.”
— Joseph Campbell

22. “When you follow your bliss, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you.”
— Joseph Campbell

23. “The fates lead him who will; him who won’t they drag.”
— Joseph Campbell

24. “If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it’s not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That’s why it’s your path.”
— Joseph Campbell

25. “Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.”
— Joseph Campbell

26. “Passion will move men beyond themselves, beyond their shortcomings, beyond their failures.”
— Joseph Campbell

27. “Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and its spectacular.”
— Joseph Campbell

28. “To find your own way is to follow your bliss.”
— Joseph Campbell

29. “The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.”
— Joseph Campbell

30. “He who thinks he knows, doesn’t know. He who knows that he doesn’t know, knows.”
— Joseph Campbell

31. “Regrets are illuminations come too late.”
— Joseph Campbell

32. “The ultimate dragon is within you, it is your ego clamping you down.”
— Joseph Campbell

33. “The dark night of the soul comes just before revelation.”
— Joseph Campbell

34. “Every hero must have the courage to be alone, to take the journey for himself.”
— Joseph Campbell

35. “If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.”
— Joseph Campbell

36. “The warrior’s approach is to say ‘yes’ to life: ‘yes’ to it all.”
— Joseph Campbell

37. “You’ve got to find the force inside you.”
— Joseph Campbell

38. “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

39. “There is what I would call the hero journey, the night sea journey, the hero quest, where the individual is going to bring forth in his life something that was never beheld before.”
— Joseph Campbell

40. “It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.”
— Joseph Campbell

41. “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

42. “Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.”
— Joseph Campbell

43. “Truth is one, the sages speak of it by many names.”
— Joseph Campbell

44. “You don’t ask what dance means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what the world means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what you mean. You enjoy it.”
— Joseph Campbell

45. “At the darkest moment comes the light.”
— Joseph Campbell

46. “No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.”
— Joseph Campbell

47. “Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.”
— Joseph Campbell

48. “Every story you tell is your own story.”
— Joseph Campbell

49. “In choosing your god, you choose your way of looking at the universe. There are plenty of Gods. Choose yours.”
— Joseph Campbell

50. “The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of yourself.”
— Joseph Campbell

51. “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.”
— Joseph Campbell

52. “All religions are true but none are literal.”
— Joseph Campbell

53. “When we talk about settling the world’s problems, we’re barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It’s a mess. It has always been a mess. We’re not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.”
— Joseph Campbell

54. “The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.”
— Joseph Campbell

55. “A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. A goal is what specifically you intend to make happen. Dreams and goals should be just out of your present reach but not out of sight. Dreams and goals are coming attractions in your life.”
— Joseph Campbell

56. “The place to find is within yourself.”
— Joseph Campbell

57. “Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’”
— Joseph Campbell

58. “It is within you that the divine lives.”
— Joseph Campbell

59. “The call to adventure is the point in a person’s life when they are first given notice that everything is going to change, whether they know it or not.”
— Joseph Campbell

60. “Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.”
— Joseph Campbell

61. “You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules.”
— Joseph Campbell

62. “The schizophrenic is drowning in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight. Edgar Cayce made the same observation in his readings.”
— Joseph Campbell

63. “Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.”
— Joseph Campbell

64. “The key to the Grail is compassion, ‘suffering with,’ feeling another’s sorrow as if it were your own. The one who finds the dynamo of compassion is the one who’s found the Grail.”
— Joseph Campbell

65. “Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.”
— Joseph Campbell

66. “Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.”
— Joseph Campbell

67. “The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure – fearlessness and achievement.”
— Joseph Campbell

68. “Sit in a room and read – and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time.”
— Joseph Campbell

69. “We save the world by being alive ourselves.”
— Joseph Campbell

70. “A bit of advice Given to a young Native American At the time of his initiation: As you go the way of life, You will see a great chasm. Jump. It is not as wide as you think.”
— Joseph Campbell

71. “Breaking out is following your bliss pattern, quitting the old place, starting your hero journey, following your bliss. You throw off yesterday as the snake sheds its skin.”
— Joseph Campbell

72. “If you follow your bliss you will find a path laid out before you that has been waiting for you all along and you will begin to live the life you ought to be living.”
— Joseph Campbell

73. “The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.”
— Joseph Campbell

74. “Participate joyfully in the sorrows of life.”
— Joseph Campbell

75. “The function of artists is “the mythologization of the world.””
— Joseph Campbell

76. “If you want to see what a society really believes in, look at what the biggest buildings on the horizon are dedicated to.”
— Joseph Campbell

77. “The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.”
— Joseph Campbell

78. “In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship.”
— Joseph Campbell

79. “The images of Myth are reflections of Spiritual and Depth potentialities of every one of us. Through contemplating those we evoke those powers in our own lives to operate through ourselves.”
— Joseph Campbell

80. “The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light.”
— Joseph Campbell

81. “There is no security in following the call to adventure.”
— Joseph Campbell

82. “First you must find your trajectory, and then comes the social coordination.”
— Joseph Campbell

83. “How to get rid of ego as a dictator and turn it into messenger and servant and scout, to be in your service, is the trick.”
— Joseph Campbell

84. “When an idea is important to a person or culture it will find its way into imagery.”
— Joseph Campbell

85. “Don’t do anything that isn’t play.”
— Joseph Campbell

86. “There is no way you can use the word “reality” without quotation marks around it.”
— Joseph Campbell

87. “A temple is a landscape of the soul.”
— Joseph Campbell

88. “We are kept out of the Garden by our own fear and desire in relation to what we think to be the goods of our life.”
— Joseph Campbell

89. “Life is a guy trying to play a violin solo in public while learning the music and his instrument at the same time.”
— Joseph Campbell

90. “Everything starts with a story.”
— Joseph Campbell

91. “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

92. “The goal is to live with God-like composure on the full rush of energy, like Dionysus riding the leopard, without being torn to pieces.”
— Joseph Campbell

93. “When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.”
— Joseph Campbell

94. “Life is but a mask worn on the face of death. And is death, then, but another mask? ‘How many can say,’ asks the Aztec poet, ‘that there is, or is not, a truth beyond?’”
— Joseph Campbell

95. “And that Aha! that you get when you see an artwork that really hits you is, ‘I am that.’ I am the very radiance of energy that is talking to me through this painting.”
— Joseph Campbell

96. “You yourself are participating in the evil, or you are not alive. Whatever you do is evil for somebody. This is one of the ironies of the whole creation.”
— Joseph Campbell

97. “The object becomes aesthetically significant when it becomes metaphysically significant.”
— Joseph Campbell

98. “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?”
— Joseph Campbell

99. “What the artist must render is a living moment somehow, a living moment actually in action or an inward experience.”
— Joseph Campbell

100. “All the old bindings are broken. Cosmological centers now are anywhere and everywhere. The earth is a heavenly body, most beautiful of all, and all poetry is now archaic that fails to match the wonder of this view.”
— Joseph Campbell

101. “The Navajo have that wonderful image of what they call the pollen path. The Navajo say, ‘Oh, beauty before me, beauty behind me, beauty to the right of me, beauty to the left of me, beauty above me, beauty below me, I’m on the pollen path.’”
— Joseph Campbell

102. “Sin always finds its root in our own selfish desires and self-gratification.”
— Joseph Campbell

103. “You enter the forest at the darkest point, where there is no path. Where there is a way or path, it is someone else’s path. You are not on your own path. If you follow someone else’s way, you are not going to realize your potential.”
— Joseph Campbell

104. “Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.”
— Joseph Campbell

105. “Love is perfect kindness.”
— Joseph Campbell

106. “We’re not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.”
— Joseph Campbell

107. “You know the rule: If you are falling, dive. Do the thing that has to be done.”
— Joseph Campbell

108. “If you live with the myths in your mind, you will find yourself always in mythological situations. They cover everything that can happen to you. And that enables you to interpret the myth in relation to life, as well as life in relation to myth.”
— Joseph Campbell

109. “Instead of clearing his own heart the zealot tries to clear the world.”
— Joseph Campbell

110. “We keep thinking of deity as a kind of fact, somewhere; God as a fact. God is simply our own notion of something that is symbolic of transcendence and mystery. The mystery is what’s important.”
— Joseph Campbell

111. “If you want to change the world, you have to change the metaphor.”
— Joseph Campbell

112. “When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.”
— Joseph Campbell

113. “The function of the society is to cultivate the individual. It is not the function of the individual to support society.”
— Joseph Campbell

114. “What you have to do, you do with play. The universe is God’s play.”
— Joseph Campbell

115. “Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed.”
— Joseph Campbell

116. “The best things cannot be told because they transcend thought. The second best are misunderstood because they are the thoughts that are supposed to refer to that which cannot be thought about. The third best are what we talk about.”
— Joseph Campbell

117. “Marriage is not a simple love affair, it’s an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one.”
— Joseph Campbell

118. “What will they think of me? Must be put aside for bliss.”
— Joseph Campbell

119. “Follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and door will open where you didn’t know they were going to be.”
— Joseph Campbell

120. “Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.”
— Joseph Campbell

121. “The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet.”
— Joseph Campbell

122. “The best we can do is lean towards the light.”
— Joseph Campbell

123. “Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.”
— Joseph Campbell

124. “I should have said, ‘Follow your blisters.’”
— Joseph Campbell

125. “I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To see life as a poem and yourself participating in a poem is what the myth does for you.”
— Joseph Campbell

126. “Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.”
— Joseph Campbell

127. “If you’re going to have a story, have a big story, or none at all.”
— Joseph Campbell

128. “You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don’t know what was in the newspapers that morning a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be.”
— Joseph Campbell

129. “To find your own way is to follow your bliss. This involves analysis, watching yourself and seeing where real deep bliss is – not the quick little excitement, but the real deep, life-filling bliss.”
— Joseph Campbell

130. “Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon, but to our ignorance and complacency coming to an end.”
— Joseph Campbell

131. “Every religion, every mythology is true in this sense: It is true as metaphorical of the human and cosmic mystery.”
— Joseph Campbell

132. “Awe is what moves us forward.”
— Joseph Campbell

133. “The insecure way is the secure way.”
— Joseph Campbell

134. “The Deadheads are doing the dance of life and this I would say is the answer to the atom bomb.”
— Joseph Campbell

135. “The demon that you can swallow gives you its power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.”
— Joseph Campbell

136. “Mythology helps you to identify the mysteries of the energies pouring through you. Therein lies your eternity.”
— Joseph Campbell

137. “Seek to know the power that is within you.”
— Joseph Campbell

138. “The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.”
— Joseph Campbell

139. “It’s only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.”
— Joseph Campbell

140. “Follow your inner heart and the world moves in and helps.”
— Joseph Campbell

141. “What I think is that a good life is one hero journey after another. Over and over again, you are called to the realm of adventure, you are called to new horizons. Each time, there is the same problem: do I dare? And then if you do dare, the dangers are there, and the help also, in the fulfillment or the fiasco.”
— Joseph Campbell

142. “Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.”
— Joseph Campbell

143. “The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure.”
— Joseph Campbell

144. “The adventure is always and everywhere a passage beyond the veil of the known into the unknown; the powers that watch at the boundary are dangerous; to deal with them is risky; yet for anyone with competence and courage the danger fades.”
— Joseph Campbell

145. “You must have a place to which you can go in your heart, your mind, or your house, almost every day, where you do not owe anyone and where no one owes you – a place that simply allows for the blossoming of something new and promising.”
— Joseph Campbell

146. “The problem in middle life, when the body has reached its climax of power and begins to decline, is to identify yourself not with the body, which is falling away, but with the consciousness of which it is a vehicle. This is something I learned from myths.”
— Joseph Campbell

147. “God is an intelligible sphere known to mind, not to the senses- whose center is everywhere and whose circumference nowhere.”
— Joseph Campbell

148. “Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain. Love itself is pain, you might say -the pain of being truly alive.”
— Joseph Campbell

149. “Our life evokes our character. You find out more about yourself as you go on. That’s why it’s good to put yourself in situations that will evoke your higher nature rather than your lower.”
— Joseph Campbell

150. “The idea of the Bodhisattva is the one who out of his realization of transcendence participates in the world. The imitation of Christ is joyful participation in the sorrows of the world.”
— Joseph Campbell

151. “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

152. “For we have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heroes of all time have gone before us…”
— Joseph Campbell

153. “The experience of Eternity right here and now is the function of life.”
— Joseph Campbell

154. “A one-sentence definition of mythology? Mythology is what we call someone else’s religion.”
— Joseph Campbell

155. “A hero is not a champion of things become, but of things becoming; the dragon to be slain by him is precisely the monster of the status quo.”
— Joseph Campbell

156. “Whether you call someone a hero or a monster is all relative to where the focus of your consciousness may be.”
— Joseph Campbell

157. “You have been thinking one way. Now you have to think a different way.”
— Joseph Campbell

158. “You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.”
— Joseph Campbell

159. “God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.”
— Joseph Campbell

160. “Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.”
— Joseph Campbell

161. “One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only when one has accepted death, not as contrary to life, but as an aspect of it.”
— Joseph Campbell

162. “Every people is a chosen people in its own mind. And it is rather amusing that their name for themselves usually means mankind.”
— Joseph Campbell

163. “When we follow our bliss, we are met by a thousand unseen helping hands.”
— Joseph Campbell

164. “When you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.”
— Joseph Campbell

165. “The ground of being is the ground of our being, and when we simply turn outward, we see all of these little problems here and there. But, if we look inward, we see that we are the source of them all.”
— Joseph Campbell

166. “Through dreams a door is opened to mythology, since myths are of the nature of dreams, and that, as dreams arise from an inward world unknown to waking consciousness, so do myths: so, indeed, does life.”
— Joseph Campbell

167. “When you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.”
— Joseph Campbell

168. “Our true reality is in our identity and unity with all life.”
— Joseph Campbell

169. “Mythological symbols touch and exhilarate centers of life beyond the reach of vocabularies of reason and coercion.”
— Joseph Campbell

170. “Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy. The warrior’s approach is to say “yes” to life: “yea” to it all.”
— Joseph Campbell

171. “Mythology is often defined as ‘other peoples’ religions’, religion can be thought of as misinterpreted mythology.”
— Joseph Campbell

172. “Writer’s block results from too much head. Cut off your head. Pegasus, poetry, was born of Medusa when her head was cut off. You have to be reckless when writing. Be as crazy as your conscience allows.”
— Joseph Campbell

173. “Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.”
— Joseph Campbell

174. “The adventure of the hero is the adventure of being alive.”
— Joseph Campbell

175. “Poetry comes out of an elite experience, the experience of people whose ears are opened to the song of the universe.”
— Joseph Campbell

176. “When before the beauty of a sunset or a mountain, you pause and exclaim, ‘Ah,’ you are participating in divinity.”
— Joseph Campbell

177. “Money is congealed energy, and releasing it releases life’s possibilities.”
— Joseph Campbell

178. “If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.”
— Joseph Campbell

179. “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.”
— Joseph Campbell

180. “We are the consciousness of the earth. We are the eyes of the earth. The voice of the earth.”
— Joseph Campbell

181. “The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.”
— Joseph Campbell

182. “The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.”
— Joseph Campbell

183. “The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact.”
— Joseph Campbell

184. “The familiar life horizon has been outgrown: the old concepts, ideals, and emotional patterns no longer fit; the time for the passing of a threshold is at hand.”
— Joseph Campbell

185. “The dance is the highest symbol of life itself.”
— Joseph Campbell

186. “Life lives on life. This is the sense of the symbol of the Ouroboros, the serpent biting its tail. Everything that lives lives on the death of something else. Your own body will be food for something else. Anyone who denies this, anyone who holds back, is out of order. Death is an act of giving.”
— Joseph Campbell

187. “Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object.”
— Joseph Campbell

188. “At first you might find that nothing happens there. But if you have a sacred space and use it, eventually something will happen. Your sacred space is where you find yourself again and again.”
— Joseph Campbell

189. “Myth is what we call other people’s religion.”
— Joseph Campbell

190. “The realms of the gods and demons – heaven, purgatory, hell – are of the substance of dreams. Myth, in this view, is the dream of the world.”
— Joseph Campbell

191. “Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life.”
— Joseph Campbell

192. “The latest incarnation of Oedipus, the continued romance of Beauty and the Beast, stands this afternoon on the corner of 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue, waiting for the traffic light to change.”
— Joseph Campbell

193. “The one radiance shines through all things.”
— Joseph Campbell

194. “Ducunt volentem fata, nolentem trahunt: “The Fates lead him who will; him who won’t, they drag.”
— Joseph Campbell

195. “God is within you! You yourself are the creator. If you find that place within you from which you brought this thing about, you will be able to live with it and affirm it, perhaps even enjoy it, as your life.”
— Joseph Campbell

196. “Perhaps some of us have to go through dark and devious ways before we can find the river of peace or the high road to the soul’s destination.”
— Joseph Campbell

197. “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

198. “There’s nothing you can do that’s more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way, you will find, live, and become a realization of your own personal myth.”
— Joseph Campbell

199. “The priests used to say that faith can move mountains, and nobody believed them. Today the scientists say that they can level mountains, and nobody doubts them.”
— Joseph Campbell

200. “You can get a lot of work done if you stay with it and are excited and its play instead of work.”
— Joseph Campbell