"Our lives are determined less by our childhood……" — James Hillman
"Our lives are determined less by our childhood than by the traumatic way we have learned to remember our childhoods."
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87 Quotes by James Hillman
James Hillman has 87 quotes on this site.
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The character truest to itself becomes eccentric rather than immovably centered, as Emerson defined the noble character of the hero.…
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The comic spirit masquerades in all things we say and do. We are each a clown and do not need…
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Tell me what you yearn for and I shall tell you who you are. We are what we reach for,…
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How can we know ourselves by ourselves? . . . Soul needs intimate connection, not only to individuate, but simply…
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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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Open your heart, your gaze, to the visitations of angels, even if the gifts they bring may not be centeredness…
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We would like otherworldly visitations to come as distinct voices with clear instructions, but they may only give small signs…
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By seeing differently, we do differently
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I am not caused by my history-my parents, my childhood and development. These are mirrors in which I may catch…
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Love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, boredom. Relationships fail not because we have stopped…
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Psychology is ultimately mythology, the study of the stories of the soul.
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I know my own deficiencies, one of which is that I had lived away from America for such a long…
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More Childhood Quotes
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one of 2,204 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood…
— Diane Ackerman
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If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem.
— Lance Armstrong
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The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
— Fred Astaire
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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
— Margaret Atwood
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I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't…
— Margaret Atwood
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Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story,…
— Paul Auster
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
— James A. Baldwin
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I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It…
— Ann Bancroft
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Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Genius is childhood recalled at will.
— Charles Baudelaire
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What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.
— Martha Beck
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I always wanted to be a rock star. That was my childhood dream. That's what I told everybody I was…
— Chester Bennington
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