Joseph Campbell Quotes

There is nothing more beautiful than finding your course as you believe you bob aimlessly in the current. And wouldn't you know that your path was there all along, waiting for you to knock, waiting for you to become. This path does not belong to your parents, your teachers, your leaders, or your lovers. Your path is your character defining itself more and more every day.

If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path.

Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.

I don't think I've decided much in my life. Don't you think life just happens?

Every person has his or her own journey.

'Karwaan' was meant for me.

The finest life is spent creating oneself, not procreating.

Your life is your art.

For as long as they praise you, never forget that it is not yet your own path that you walk, but another person's.

Shri Krishna says: "Better die in your own path than attempt the path of another."

I am a man, Jupiter, and each man must invent his own path.

His way isn't the same as mine, nor mine as his. But we're both in search of our destinies, and I respect him for that.

Listen to your Own Heart Concerning the Path you Wish to Travel.

Whatever it is that calls us, that's our path. And as we walk that path, we have a chance to shine forth who we are. It affects other people around us.

Leadership is a journey. Each one of us has to take our own path, and get there our own way.

If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else's; the whole point is to find your own way.

If you want guarantees in life, then you don't want life. You want rehearsals for a script that's already been written. Life by its nature cannot have guarantees, or its whole purpose is thwarted.

Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know. Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land.

When I said, "I am my mother, but I'm not," I was saying my path would be my own.

You don't have control of the car, but you can drive it. Life takes you where it wants you to go and where you need to go.

I do know where I'm going and it's just a matter of finding the language to get there.

Everyone's journey is completely different.

And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.

Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone... the path follows you and rolls up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their own way.

As a child I prayed that my calling be revealed - but not with expectation and not with a destination. I became an artist because I didn't know what to do and I thought it was really fun to make things.