The best Quotes by Joseph Campbell

The best Quotes by Joseph Campbell

Joseph John Campbell (March 26, 1904 – October 30, 1987) was an American writer. He was a professor of literature at Sarah Lawrence College who worked in comparative mythology and comparative religion. His work covers many aspects of the human experience. Campbell's best-known work is his book The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949), in which he discusses his theory of the journey of the archetypal hero shared by world mythologies, termed the monomyth.

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.