938 Quotes by Joseph Campbell

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

I don't need faith. I have experience.

Economics and politics are the governing powers of life today, and that's why everything is so screwy.

The way to find out about happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you are really happy — not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what is called following your bliss.

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

Man was not breathed into the earth. Man came out of the earth.

Poets and artists who speak of the mystery are rare.

The theme of the Grail is the bringing of life into what is known as 'the wasteland.' The wasteland is the preliminary theme to which the Grail is the answer. . . It's the world of people living inauthentic lives - doing what they are supposed to do.

For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man, it is my hometown love of the human, the living and ordinary.