Hero Journey Quotes:

Furthermore, we have not even to risk the adventure alone; for the heroes of all time have gone before us, the labyrinth is fully known; we have only to follow the thread of the hero-path. And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence; where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world.

- Joseph Campbell

topic: Inspirational, Hero, Adventure, Journeys And Paths, Abomination

The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.

- Joseph Campbell

topic: Hero, Journey, Self, Hero Journey

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

- Joseph Campbell

topic: Inspiring, Courage, Veterans Day, Something Bigger Than Yourself, Inspirational Military

What I think is that a good life is one hero journey after another. Over and over again, you are called to the realm of adventure, you are called to new horizons. Each time, there is the same problem: do I dare? And then if you do dare, the dangers are there, and the help also, and the fulfillment or the fiasco. There's always the possibility of fiasco. But there's also the possibility of bliss.

- Joseph Campbell

source: Joseph Campbell, David Kudler (2004). “Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation”, p.133, New World Library

topic: Good Life, Military, Hero, New Horizons, Hero Journey

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

- Joseph Campbell

topic: Inspirational, Appreciation, Being Yourself, Power Of Myth, Becoming Who You Are

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

- Joseph Campbell

source: Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.151, Anchor

topic: Inspirational, Hero, Adventure, Abomination, Power Of Myth

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

- Joseph Campbell

source: Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.48, New World Library

topic: Hero, Adventure, Destiny, Hero Journey

You enter the forest at the darkest point, where there is no path. Where there is a way or path, it is someone else's path. You are not on your own path. If you follow someone else's way, you are not going to realize your potential.

- Joseph Campbell

topic: Inspirational, Way, Path, Hero Journey, Follow Your Bliss

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.

- Joseph Campbell

topic: Inspirational, Life, Spiritual, Life Goal, Sacred Space

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.

- Joseph Campbell

topic: Inspirational, Life, Faith, Meaningful Work, Power Of Myth

The journey of the hero is about the courage to seek the depths; the image of creative rebirth; the eternal cycle of change within us; the uncanny discovery that the seeker is the mystery which the seeker seeks to know. The hero journey is a symbol that binds, in the original sense of the word, two distant ideas, the spiritual quest of the ancients with the modern search for identity, “always the one, shape-shifting yet marvelously constant story that we find.

- Phil Cousineau

source: Joseph Campbell, Phil Cousineau, Stuart L. Brown (1990). “The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work”, p.19, New World Library

topic: Spiritual, Hero, Journey, Uncanny, Search For Identity

There is what I would call the hero journey, the night sea journey, the hero quest, where the individual is going to bring forth in his life something that was never beheld before.

- Joseph Campbell

source: Joseph Campbell, Phil Cousineau, Stuart L. Brown (1990). “The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work”, p.76, New World Library

topic: Hero, Night, Journey, Hero Journey

A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder. Fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won.

- Joseph Campbell

source: Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.23, New World Library

topic: Hero, Victory, World, Hero Journey

Regrets are illuminations come too late.

- Joseph Campbell

topic: Inspirational, Regret, Illumination, Temper Tantrums, Hero Journey

Breaking out is following your bliss pattern, quitting the old place, starting your hero journey, following your bliss. You throw off yesterday as the snake sheds its skin.

- Joseph Campbell

topic: Hero, Journey, Snakes, Old Places, Hero Journey

While the hero journeys for external fame, fortune, and power, the heroine tries to regain her lost creative spirit… Once she hears the cries of this lost part of herself needing rescue, her journey truly begins.

- Valerie Estelle Frankel

source: Valerie Estelle Frankel (2010). “From Girl to Goddess: The Heroine's Journey through Myth and Legend”, p.20, McFarland

topic: Hero, Journey, Creative, Creative Spirit, Hero Journey

For the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the self-scattering of the wakened state,

- Joseph Campbell

topic: Self, Favors, Bliss, Hero Journey

All religions are true but none are literal.

- Joseph Campbell

topic: Inspirational, Power Of Myth, Hero Journey