Joseph Campbell

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.

Joseph Campbell

There is perhaps nothing worse than reaching the top of the ladder and discovering that you’re on the wrong wall.

Joseph Campbell

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

Joseph Campbell

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. A goal is what specifically you intend to make happen. Dreams and goals should be just out of your present reach but not out of sight. Dreams and goals are coming attractions in your life.

Joseph Campbell

Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life.

Joseph Campbell

Deep down inside, we don’t seek the meaning of life, but the experience of being alive.

Joseph Campbell

Do what gives you bliss.

Joseph Campbell

Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.

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

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