Love Quotes by James Hillman

10 Love quotes by James Hillman

James Hillman’s ten notes on love weave together myth and mind, giving you a compact look at how the heart can be both fragile and fierce. It’s a concise stop for anyone who enjoys a reflective turn of phrase.

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We cannot be studied or cured apart from the planet...

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Words, like angels, are powers which have invisible power over us…

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By seeing differently, we do differently

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Each person enters the world called.

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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…

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Attention is the cardinal psychological virtue. On it depends perhaps the other cardinal virtues, for there can hardly be faith nor hope…

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The psyche is highly flammable material. So we are always wrapping things in asbestos, keeping our images and fantasies at arm's length…

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We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language. . . . We have affection We have genes for usefulness,…

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Why do we focus so intensely on our problems? What draws us to them? Why are they so attractive? They have the…

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How can we know ourselves by ourselves? . . . Soul needs intimate connection, not only to individuate, but simply to live.…

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Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind.

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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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