We're not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.
― Joseph Campbell

All religions are true but none are literal.
― Joseph Campbell

Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
― Joseph Campbell

Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half contends that they are not facts at all. As a result we have people who consider themselves believers because they accept metaphors as facts, and we have others who classify themselves as atheists because they think religious metaphors are lies.
― Joseph Campbell, Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor

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.

And where we had thought to slay another we shall slay ourselves. Where we had thought to travel outwards 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

Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
― Joseph Campbell

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, The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work

We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.
― Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

As you proceed through life, following your own path, birds will shit on you. Don't bother to brush it off.  Getting a comedic view of your situation gives you spiritual distance. Having a sense of humor saves you.
― Joseph Campbell