Quotes from Joseph Campbell

When you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.

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.

What is a god? A god is a personification of a motivating power of a value system that functions in human life and in the universe.

Hell is life drying up.

I think it's important to live life with a knowledge of its mystery, and of your own mystery.

There is no greater privilege in life than being yourself.

A woman is a vehicle of life. Life has overtaken her. Woman is what it is all about-the giving of birth and the giving of nourishment.

Money is congealed energy, and releasing it releases life's possibilities.

The adventure evoked a quality of his character that he didn't know he possessed.

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.

Our life evokes our character and you find out more about yourself as you go on.

Myths are so intimately bound to culture, time, and place that unless the symbols, the metaphors, are kept alive by constant recreation through the arts, the life just slips away from them.

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.

The perfect human being is uninteresting-the Buddha who leaves the world, you know. It is the imperfections of life that are lovable.

You can't say life is useless because it ends in the grave.

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of life

For people who are really alive to have life awakened is more important than to get a sandwich.

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

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

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?

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.

Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure.

Essentially, mythologies are enormous poems that are renditions of insights, giving some sense of the marvel, the miracle and wonder of life.

Mythology is the womb of mankind's initiation to life and death.