Joseph Campbell

If marriage isn’t a first priority in your life, you’re not married.

Joseph Campbell

If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.

Joseph Campbell

If you follow someone else’s way, you are not going to realize your potential.

Joseph Campbell

If you really want to help this world, what you will have to teach is how to live in it.

Joseph Campbell

If you’re going to have a story, have a big story, or none at all.

Joseph Campbell

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

Joseph Campbell

It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.

Joseph Campbell

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.

Joseph Campbell

Our life evokes our character. You find out more about yourself as you go on. That’s why it’s good to be able to put yourself in situations that will evoke your higher nature rather than your lower.

Joseph Campbell

People forget facts, but they remember stories.

Joseph Campbell