Best James Hillman Sayings
- Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the… Drop
- If you are still being hurt by an event that happened to you at twelve, it is the thought that is hurting you now. Change
- We approach people the same way we approach our cars. We take the poor kid to a doctor and ask, What's wrong with him, how… Approach
- Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit; the loss of the empire of… Admit
- It is impossible to see the angel unless you first have a notion of it. Angel
- In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts to shock the… Aggression
- We forget that the soul has its own ancestors. Ancestor
- Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind. Beauty
- It's important to ask yourself, How am I useful to others? What do people want from me? That may very well reveal what you are… Ask
- I think we're miserable partly because we have only one god, and that's economics. Economic
- I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result. Class
- Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular path... this is what I must do, this is what I've got to have.… Call
- We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently. Begin
- Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong. If a kid is having trouble or is discouraged, the problem… All
- I don't think anything changes until ideas change. The usual American viewpoint is to believe that something is wrong with the person. American
- You don't know what you're going to get into when you follow your bliss. Bliss
- We need to work on the world so it will not be so oppressive. Inspirational
- All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who… Age
- As Plotinus tells us, we elected the body, the parents, the place, and the circumstances that suited the soul and that, as the myth says,… Belongs
- The capacity for people to kid themselves is huge. Living on illusions or delusions, and the re-establishing of these illusions or delusions requires a big… Affair
- Whether we like it or not, men have more of the offices, more of the higher jobs, more of the seats in Congress. Men need… Congress
- The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control? Control
- The culture is going into a psychological depression. We are concerned about our place in the world, about being competitive: Will my children have as… Car
- We're an air bag society that wants guarantees on everything that we buy. We want to be able to take everything back and get another… Able
- Why do we focus so intensely on our problems? What draws us to them? Why are they so attractive? They have the magnet power of… Attractive
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