Adventure Quotes by Joseph Campbell

The adventure evoked a quality of his character that he didn't know he possessed.

— Joseph Campbell

The adventure that the hero is ready for is the one he gets.

— Joseph Campbell

Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure.

— Joseph Campbell

The call to adventure signifies that destiny has summoned the hero.

— Joseph Campbell

For we have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heros of all time have gone before us...

— Joseph Campbell

The adventure of the hero is the adventure of being alive

— Joseph Campbell

The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.

— Joseph Campbell

There is no security in following the call to adventure.

— Joseph Campbell

Questing... is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.

— Joseph Campbell

The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure-- fearlessness and achievement.

— Joseph Campbell

The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve…

— Joseph Campbell

The quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating.

— Joseph Campbell

And so Galahad decided that it would be a disgrace to set off on a quest with the other knights. Alone he…

— Joseph Campbell

This is all I ever wanted - to help students and artists see myth as a reflection of the one sublime adventure…

— Joseph Campbell

Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing…

— Joseph Campbell

There is what I would call the hero journey, the night sea journey, the hero quest, where the individual is going to…

— Joseph Campbell

The myth is the public domain and the dream is the private myth. If your private myth, your dream, happens to coincide…

— Joseph Campbell

What I think is that a good life is one hero journey after another. Over and over again, you are called to…

— Joseph Campbell

“The dreamer is a distinguished operatic artist, and, like all who have elected to follow, not the safely marked general highways of…

— Joseph Campbell

Thinking in mythological terms helps to put you in accord with the inevitables of this vale of tears. You learn to recognize…

— Joseph Campbell

The achievement of the hero is one that he is ready for and it's really a manifestation of his character. It's amusing…

— Joseph Campbell

The usual hero adventure begins with someone from whom something has been taken, or who feels there is something lacking in the…

— Joseph Campbell

Typically, the hero of the fairy tale achieves a domestic, microcosmic triumph, and the hero of myth a world-historica l, macrocosmic triumph.…

— Joseph Campbell

Life, in both its knowing and its doing, has become today a "free fall," so to say, into the next minute, into…

— Joseph Campbell

Furthermore, we have not even to risk the adventure alone; for the heroes of all time have gone before us, the labyrinth…

— Joseph Campbell

I prefer the gradual path My feeling is that mythic forms reveal themselves gradually in the course of your life if you…

— Joseph Campbell

“ The Hero Path We have not even to risk the adventure alone for the heroes of all time have gone before…

— Joseph Campbell

“There is a passage in the Old French Queste del Saint Graal that epitomizes the true spirit of Western man. It tells…

— Joseph Campbell

“The moral, I suppose, would be that the first requirements for a heroic career are the knightly virtues of loyalty, temperance, and…

— Joseph Campbell

The call to adventure is the point in a person’s life when they are first given notice that everything is going to…

— Joseph Campbell

The senses are a kind of reason. Taste, touch and smell, hearing and seeing, are not merely a means to sensation, enjoyable…

— Joseph Campbell

The adventure is always and everywhere a passage beyond the veil of the known into the unknown; the powers that watch at…

— Joseph Campbell

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. Fear of the unknown is our greatest fear. Many of us…

— Joseph Campbell

“A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and…

— Joseph Campbell

They thought that it would be a disgrace to go forth as a group. Each entered the forest at a point that…

— Joseph Campbell

Your adventure has to be coming out of your own interior. If you are ready for it then doors will open where…

— Joseph Campbell

The conquest of the fear of death is the recovery of life's joy. One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only…

— Joseph Campbell