Joseph Campbell
American mythologist and author, 1904-1987
9 quotes.
Quotes by Joseph Campbell
- Find a place where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
- Follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be.
- 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.
- It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
- It's only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.
- Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it... Being alive is the meaning.
- The magic you are looking for is in the work you’re avoiding.
- The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
- We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.