Joseph Campbell Quotes

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

I really wanted to find my own path.

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

Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone's idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path.

I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out.

At some point, we have to move away from the pack to take certain journeys on our own.

Women are always being tested ... but ultimately, each of us has to define who we are individually and then do the very best job we can to grow into it.

Each individual's way is going to be different. Never follow anybody. That is the greatest calamity that can happen to a man. Once you start following somebody else, you become a carbon copy. You become an imitation.

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.

I mean I am not Hilary Duff. Like I have my own path that I'm going to go on.

In a very slow way, I found my path. Even now, I think, 'If I can't do it my way, I'd rather not do it.'

What I wanted to do and what I needed to do was something entirely different, and through reading Roussel I learned that I could do what I wanted all on my own and that I didn't have to rely on what had actually happened in my somewhat limited life and reading.

Part of the reason that I moved to Los Angeles is that even though my mom introduced me to all kinds of music, I really wanted to work on having my own identify, on being who I am and doing what I do, and seeing how people responded.

I needed to carve out my own place and find out what I was going to do.

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.

Sometimes you want to make your own experiences.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.

There's no pressure; like Kate said, it is about carving your own future. No one is going to try to fill my mother's shoes; what she did was fantastic. It's about making your own future and your own destiny, and Kate will do a very good job of that.

You just get out there and be what you want to be. That's part of evolving and part of staying true to yourself - part of remaining alive in a real authentic, long-term sense creatively: not listening to what other people tell you to be.

My motto is to help people love themselves sooner. I can't teach them how to do that. They have to figure that out on their own - that's their journey.

Everyone's path is their own.

I love to have my own story, my own path, and forge ahead because my career isn't going to be like anyone else's.

In school, no one teaches you to look for things that are right for you.

Every person has his or her own journey.