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The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy-not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self analysis. What is it that makes you happy? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call "following your bliss."

— Joseph Campbell

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It's only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.

Comments on a passage in Where the Wild Things Are (1963)

The achievement of the hero is one that he is ready for and it's really a manifestation of his character.

The Power of Myth (1988)

Wherever the hero may wander, whatever he may do, he is ever in the presence of his own essence — for he has the perfected eye to see. There is no separateness.

The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949)

The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as a contradiction, but as a transcendence of the universal tragedy of man.

The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949)

People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking.

The Power of Myth (1988)

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