Joseph Campbell Quotes

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

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.

Joseph Campbell

I don't have to have faith, I have experience.

Joseph Campbell

Love is a friendship set to music.

Joseph Campbell

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

Joseph Campbell

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.

Joseph Campbell

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

Joseph Campbell

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

Joseph Campbell

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

Joseph Campbell

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

Joseph Campbell

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.

Joseph Campbell

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

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.

Joseph Campbell

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

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

Joseph Campbell