Character Quotes by James Hillman

8 Character quotes by James Hillman

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James Hillman’s eight short reflections on character delve into the psyche with a mythic twist, offering a compact taste of his depth psychology. The set invites readers to consider the archetypal layers of identity.

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Aging is no accident. It is necessary to the human condition, intended by the soul. We become more characteristic of who we…

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We are human less by virtue of our ideal goals than by the vice of our inferiority.

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You may not become a celebrity. You may even experience lots of illness or divorce, or unhappiness. But I think there is…

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It helps to regard soul as an active intelligence, forming and plotting each person's fate. Translators use "plot" to render the ancient…

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The character truest to itself becomes eccentric rather than immovably centered, as Emerson defined the noble character of the hero. At the…

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Character forms a life regardless of how obscurely that life is lived and how little light falls on it from the stars.

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You are born with a character; it is given, a gift, as the old stories say, from the guardians upon your birth...Each…

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I like to imagine a person's psyche to be like a boardinghouse full of characters. The ones who show up regularly and…

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“Each life is formed by its unique image, an image that is the essence of that life and calls it to a destiny. As…

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Fear is a huge thing for older people.

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You know, people come to therapy really for a blessing. Not so much to fix what's broken, but to get what's broken blessed.

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Until the culture recognizes the legitimacy of growing down, each person in the culture struggles blindly to make sense of the darkness that the…

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“The first way has been excellently presented by David Holt in his lecture on “Jung and Marx.” [1] There Holt shows that Jung imagined his…

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I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.

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There is more in a human life than our theories of it allow. Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular…

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Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind.

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The idea of death robs inquiry of its passionate vitality and empties our efforts of their purpose by coming to one predestined conclusion, death.…

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I'm in favor of destruction, aggression, hating things. Not bearing things anymore. We think the breakdown comes because our life is in bad shape.…

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In the past, friendship was a huge thing. But it's hard for us to think of friendship as a calling, because it's not a…

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Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong. If a kid is having trouble or is discouraged, the…

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The self divided is precisely where the self is authentically located. . . We all have identity crises because a single identity is a…

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Love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, boredom. Relationships fail not because we have stopped loving but because we…

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