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 thoroughly 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; and where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Hero, Adventure

  "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" by Joseph Campbell, New World Library, (Ch. 1), 2008.

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

  Joseph Campbell

  Hero, Journey, Self

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

  Joseph Campbell

  Life, Inspiring, Veterans Day

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

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• 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

  Good Life, Military, Hero

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

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• The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Appreciation

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

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Hero, Adventure

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

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

  Joseph Campbell

  Hero, Adventure, Destiny

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

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• 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

  Inspirational, Way, Path

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

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

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

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Faith

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• 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

  Spiritual, Hero, Journey

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

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• 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

  Hero, Night, Journey

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

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• 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

  Hero, Victory, World

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

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• Regrets are illuminations come too late.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Regret, Illumination

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.101, New World Library

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• 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

  Hero, Journey, Snakes

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

  Joseph Campbell

  Way, Realizing, Follow Your Bliss

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• 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

  Hero, Journey, Creative

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

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

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Self, Favors

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.178, New World Library

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• All religions are true but none are literal.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Religion, Power Of Myth

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