Joseph Campbell Quotes

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.

I am just like you and everyone else. I am trying to live my life as best I can.

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

On some level, I think we want our reading self to represent our best self.

Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

I like this idea of becoming fully realised.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?

I believe that men are here to grow themselves into best good that they can be - at least, this is what I want to do.

All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

Everybody grows in their own way.

Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.

I just try to live my life and do my thing.

I don't think my approach to acting is all necessarily in service of the character. I think, selfishly, I've put it in service of myself, my perspective on the world and helping my life.

Don't go through life, grow through life.

I'm on a missionary journey to become the best version of myself.

I say that virtue is really all about enjoying yourself, living fully; but of course it is far from obvious what living fully actually means.

My daughter's 19. I'm not asking her to develop as an artist. I'm just asking her to develop as a full person, human being.

It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me.

I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least some part of that finished product in whose fabrication we are most concerned: ourselves.