Joseph Campbell Quotes

Play is where life lives

We want to remember to be playful! We're here in this wonderful and incredible world! Like, the grand architect of the universe created this playground. And we're supposed to have fun, and we're supposed to play.

I've never outgrown my childhood.

It strikes me every time I do an interview that I don't really sit around thinking about my goals and my life and my career. I do what I love doing and I get a lot of feedback. I'm free as a bird, you know? If I do something good, it's, 'Wow, that was brilliant,' and if I do something bad, it just goes away.

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

When you're a kid, you should be a kid.

I believe in the power of play.

Playing is the biggest thing there is.

Did you ever fly a kite in bed? Did you ever walk with ten cats on your head? Did you ever milk this kind of cow? Well, we can do it. We know how. If you never did, you should. These things are fun and fun is good.

Relax. Be yourself. Play a lot.

In the true man there is a child concealed who wants to play.

The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.

Ideas come from ordinary, everyday life. And from imagination. And from feelings. And from memories. Memories of dust in my sneakers and humming whitewalls down a hill called Monkey.

It's so important and easy to be a kid at heart.

Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.

If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

I'm still very much a kid inside myself.

You can be childlike without being childish. A child always wants to have fun. Ask yourself, 'Am I having fun?'

Sometimes it works. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Hospital'. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Pablo Picasso'. I've been playing a lot lately. I do it as long as I feel like it.

A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.

As you get older you're told to be sensible, but it's important for writing if you're a comic that you're able to still access that childlike thing.

Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.

Even though you're growing up, you should never stop having fun.

I do have a childlike enthusiasm at times. I certainly enjoy life and get pleasure sometimes in childish things.