938 Quotes by Joseph Campbell

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

Everything, all the time, is causing everything else.

You have to have a feeling for where you are. You’ve got only one life to live and you don’t have to live it for six people. Pay attention to it.

You can keep an old tradition going only by renewing it in terms of current circumstances.

Why re-enter such a world? Why attempt to make plausible, or even interesting, to men and women consumed with passion, the experience of transcendental bliss? As dreams that were momentous by night may seem simply silly in the light of day, so the poet and the prophet can discover themselves playing the idiot before a jury of sober eyes.

Love is a friendship set to music.

We must be willing to let go of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

We must be willing to let go of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

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