Joseph Campbell Quotes

Many people come to reinvention when life changes around them, but people come in all different stripes. I'm oriented to change.

I accepted a change in my life. I didn't choose that change and those are the best changes to make.

Leaving things behind and starting again is a way of coping with difficulties. I learnt very early in my life that I was able to leave a place and still remain myself.

My life has been about big changes.

When I shaved my hair, my friends asked me to keep it, maybe make my own wig out of it, but I wanted the old hair to go; it was not mine. I wanted to let go.

To honor life, we must be willing to grow through what we don't know yet, and outgrow what we know no longer fits us. We must be willing to give in to the process, moment by moment, realizing a new plot may be unfolding.

We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden.

Release and detach from every person, every circumstance, every condition, and every situation that no longer serves a divine purpose in your life. All things have a season, and all seasons must come to an end. Choose a new season, filled with purposeful thoughts and activities.

Die each moment so that you are renewed each moment.

You have to let go of who you were, to become who you will be.

I hope to grow up and see myself accepting myself and accepting time going by and everything falls.

I have to reinvent myself.

I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives.

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

I guess I'm in a state of becoming. Even though I've had a full career and I've been around a long time, it's like dinosaurs are coming back. It's all new. I'm having to be on my own and seeing how exciting life can be now.

Movies are open doors, and at every door, I change character and life... I live for the present always. I accept this risk. I don't deny the past, but it's a page to turn.

I was feeling a strong need to change, grow, and break with particular things that were going on in my life and my history, and the material was the perfect answer for that.

Even when I retired, there was part of me that didn't want to retire. But once you decide it's time to move on then you have to stick with it.

Cutting my hair, I feel like I'm going to another level. Cutting my hair was a step for me. Anybody that has had hair for so long, when you're used to something, it's like reforming your life.

You need to dismount when your horse is dead. What was relevant 20 years ago is no longer relevant today. Therefore, you need to reinvent yourself.

The quicker you let go of old cheese, the sooner you find new cheese.

*I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago... *So soon you will be in that part of the book where you are holding the bulk of the pages in your left hand, and only a thin wisp of the story in your right. *We get one story, you and I, and one story alone....It might be time for you to go. It might be time to change, to shine out.