Joseph Campbell Quotes

I hope you find these Motivational Joseph Campbell Quotes useful in achieving your personal and career goals in life.

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell

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

The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell

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

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves
come when life seems most challenging.
- Joseph Campbell

When you follow your bliss,
doors will open for you
that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell

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

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
- 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

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
- Joseph Campbell

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

Follow your bliss and doors will open
where there were no doors before.
- Joseph Campbell

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

When you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track
that has been there all the while waiting for you,
and the life you ought to be living is the one you are living.
When you can see that, you begin to meet people
who are in the field of your bliss,
and they open the doors to you.
I say, follow your bliss and don't be afraid,
and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.
If you follow your bliss,
doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell

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

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

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

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

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

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
- Joseph Campbell

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

Love is a friendship set to music.
- Joseph Campbell

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

A hero is someone who has given his life to
something bigger than himself
or something other than himself.
- Joseph Campbell

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

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

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

I don't have to have faith, I have experience.
- Joseph Campbell

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

When you follow your bliss... doors will open
where you would not have thought there would be doors,
and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell

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

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

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

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.
- Joseph Campbell

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

God is a metaphor for that which trancends all levels of intellectual thought.
It's as simple as that.
- Joseph Campbell

The unknown is like the darkness of a cave -
it can be illuminated by the brief light
of one adventurer's small candle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We fear the unknown,
perhaps more than we fear anything else,
and yet we are, at heart, adventurers.
We seek to expand our realm of knowledge and dominion.
Perhaps we are attempting to overcome and crush the unknown,
but our duel with the unknown is such a one-sided clash
that we must know in our hearts
that our adventure is no more than a child's game.
Perhaps we hope that the unknown
is like the darkness of a cave
and that the brief light of our adventurer's candle
can illuminate the entire cave.
Nonetheless, the path of the adventurer
is a path of joy, while the way of fear is one of suffering.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.
- Marshall McLuhan

The lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics.
His songs are very narrative.
- Stephen Malkmus

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting
in a cave eating raw meat,
because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
- Orson Welles

I don't back down.
I don't cave when the pressure gets too great from
these partisan political ideological forces.
- Dan Rather

When I'm on stage the savage in me is released.
It's like going back to being a cave man.
It takes me six hours to come down after a show.
- Angus Young

Man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces
upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare
experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage.
- Morris West

Everywhere you hang your hat is home.
Home is the bright cave under the hat.
- Lance Morrow

One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army.
- Jose Marti

Houses mean a creation, something new,
a shelter freed from the idea of a cave.
- Stephen Gardiner

I'm Andrea Thompson, and unless you've been living in a cave,
you probably already know that.
- Andrea Thompson

I'm not that tough; I'm not that smart.
I need life telling me who I am, showing me my mind constantly.
I wouldn't see it in a cave.
- Richard Gere

I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going
to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort,
but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men.
- Maria Mitchell

The day I initiated divorce proceedings against Michael Farmer,
I was ready to retire to a desert cave and rethink my life.
- Gloria Swanson

I think the rich will eventually have to cave in too,
because the economic situation around the world is
not gonna tolerate the United States being on top forever.
- Nina Simone

Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock
you on your head and drag you to her cave.
She is there, but people must want her,
and seek her out.
- William F. Buckley, Jr.

Every few thousand years some shepard inhales smoke
from a burning bush and has a vision or eats moldy
rye bread in a cave and sees God.
- Kerry Thornley

The frame of the cave leads to the frame of man.
- Stephen Gardiner

It was relatively easy to write 'The Cave of Lost Souls',
though, because it came to me one night in a dream.
I remember waking up and having this idea for a complete story -
from start to finish -
in my head,
so I jotted it down, then later began writing the thing.
- Paul Kane

It's like a prehistoric reflex, you know,
going out and getting the meat and bringing it back to the cave.
You feel you're supposed to make it better,
but more than likely she's asking you to tell her how you feel.
- Fred Ward

You are also caught with the fact that man is a creature
who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of
his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences
of his spiritual pilgrimage.
- Morris West

Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain,
attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific forces at our disposal,
which we are clever enough to release,
but whose consequences we cannot comprehend.
- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because
I get asked such bloody miserable questions.
- Nick Cave

The weather was turning cold and I remember that Dante
was using nothing but natural light as his electric department was away,
prepping the scene in the cave.
We stayed on that rock for the whole day.
- Madeleine Stowe

I've always had an obligation to creation,
above all.
- Nick Cave

An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and
in a state where he can receive information and inspiration.
You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.
- Nick Cave

How many deaf people do you know in real life? Unless they live in a cave,
or are 14, which seems to be true for most people in this business,
what could I possibly tell them that they don't already know?
- Marlee Matlin

You don't need a uniform color: We used a mixture of brick red,
browns and grays, and then threw in seashells,
branches and various types of rock, so our walls ended
up looking like cave paintings!
- Randy Bachman

I keep waiting for the roof to cave in.
I was raised to follow the Golden Rule,
you know, treat people the way you wish to be treated.
That's kind of the way I live my life.
Maybe someone up there likes me for that.
- Matt LeBlanc

What difference is there, do you think,
between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at
the shadows and images of various objects,
provided they are content and don't know what they miss,
and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?
- Desiderius Erasmus

If my world were to cave in tomorrow,
I would look back on all the pleasures,
excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had.
Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home,
but the joy of everything else.
It will have been enough.
- Audrey Hepburn

You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American
Novel and know it is utterly superb,
and then throw it page by page into the fire.
You just don't do that.
You send it out.
You have to send it out.
- Theodore Sturgeon

And then I met Jerry and he's such a creative fiction writer,
and I don't know if there's ever been a team put together the way we are -
where one person does the theological way out and suggestions,
and the other person goes into the cave and does the fiction writing.
- Tim LaHaye

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