938 Quotes by Joseph Campbell

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

The quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating.

I think a person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave. Work begins when you don't like what you're doing. There's a wise saying: make your hobby your source of income. Then there's no such thing as work, and there's no such thing as getting tired. That's been my own experience. I did just what I wanted to do. It takes a little courage at first, because who the hell wants you to do just what you want to do; they've all got lots of plans for you. But you can make it happen.

Mythology helps you to identify the mysteries of the energies pouring through you. Therein lies your eternity.

Where there is a way or path, it is someone else's. Each of us has to find his own way.

The adventure of the hero is the adventure of being alive

The modern hero-deed must be that of questing to bring to light again the lost Atlantis of the co-ordinated Soul.

What the artist must render is a living moment somehow, a living moment actually in action or an inward experience.

The big problem of any young person's life is to have models to suggest possibilities. Nietzsche says, 'Man is the sick animal.' Man is the animal that doesn't know what to do with itself. The mind has many possibilities, but we can live no more than one life. What are we going to do with ourselves?