Joseph Campbell Quotes

The inward journey is about finding your own fullness, something that no one else can take away.

It has been my observation that the happiest of people, the vibrant doers of the world, are almost always those who are using - who are putting into play, calling upon, depending upon-the greatest number of their God-given talents and capabilities.

The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself.

The very purpose of life is to reach the highest possible flowering.

The spiritual life is not a special career, involving abstraction from the world of things. It is a part of every man's life; and until he has realized it, he is not a complete human being, has not entered into possession of all his powers.

Remember this, you don't have to be important or special or glamorous; all you actually need is success and pleasure from whatever it is that you choose to do with your life. You don't have to become something in the eyes of others, you only have to become something in your own reality. From this humble attitude flows a sweet serenity which comes naturally from personal healing and spiritual reconciliation.

You find God the moment you realize that you don't need to seek God

For me, life isn't about being recognized or having everyone know who I am. That's not why I'm here. To me, my foundation is the most important thing I do or have ever done. That's what my life is about.

In the end, I want to be able to say, 'My life was what I made it.'

I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.

The will of man is his happiness.

The most important thing in my life is to live my life and enjoy it - to do what I think is right and what I think is good.

It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own choosing; when we do, the performance is itself the wage.

The only thing that I am ambitious about is to live a good life. Full stop.

This is my spiritual journey through life, my way of making sense of the world. I don't need permission from anyone or accolades from anyone; it is completely internal.

Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.

Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can.

Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome.

My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself.

Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come.

The joy of working at something to find out what it means to me is what I grew up with.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.

It's good for people to look at me and think, 'This guy is doing his thing and enjoying what he's doing and successful at it and living his life.' And that's what I'm doing, and I'm very happy.