black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.

Joseph Campbell

No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Ability Inspirational Oneself Possession World
Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Dimension Forever Future Past
Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Follow Life Mystery Path Problem Yourself
Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Fools Practical Wisdom World
Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Artist Love Mistake Perfection Person
Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

End Expectation Figure Life Movie Question
The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure– fearlessness and achievement.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Achievement Adventure Courage Fear Life
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

Day Decision Victory Win World
Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Funny People Scream
Regrets are illuminations come too late.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Illumination Late Regret
When you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that’s always been there, waiting for you. And the life that you should be living, is the one that you will be living.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Follow Kind Life Track Wait Yourself
Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Devil Encounter God Transformation
The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Fate Guide Journey Path
Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Burn Happiness Pain Place
And so Galahad decided that it would be a disgrace to set off on a quest with the other knights. Alone he would enter the dark forest where there was no path. This is the myth of The Hero’s Journey.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Alone Darkness Decision Grace Journey
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Challenge Deep Life Opportunity Ourselves Power

Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Joseph Campbell Quotes