"Your adventure has to be coming out..." - Quote by Joseph Campbell
Your adventure has to be coming out of your own interior. If you are ready for it then doors will open where there were no doors before, and where there would not be doors for anyone else. And you must have courage. It's the call to adventure, which means there is no security, no rules.
More by Joseph Campbell
“When your mind is simply trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have misread the image.”
“There's something inside you that knows when you're in the center, that knows when you're on the beam or off the beam. And if you get off the beam to earn money, you've lost your life. And if you stay in the center and don't get any money, you still have your bliss.”
“Their task [creative artists], therefore, is to communicate directly from one inward world to another, in such a way that an actual shock of experience will have been rendered: not a mere statement for the information or persuasion of a brain, but an effective communication across the void of space and time from one center of consciousness to another.”
More on Adventure
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
“Oh the places you'll go! There is fun to be done!”
“Travelling is like a novel: it's what happens that counts.”
More on Self Discovery
“All these things shall love do unto youthat you may know the secrets of your heart,and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life's heart.”
“I'm trying to find myself as a person, sometimes that's not easy to do. Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do. The best way for me to find myself as a person is to prove to myself that I am an actress.”
“The function of (heroic) symbols is to give you a sense of Aha! Yes, I know what it is, it's myself.”