Top 100 Hillman Quotes
#1. I was on the plane with Dwayne You can call me Whitley, I go to Hillman
Nicki Minaj
#2. Politics is the science of how who gets what, when and why. - Sidney Hillman
Zig Ziglar
#3. We have lost, as James Hillman once put it, the response of the heart to what is presented to the senses.
Stephen Harrod Buhner
#4. My brand is good storytelling. I really want [my company] Hillman Grad Productions to be associated with great stories, interesting characters; things that are three-dimensional and feel honest.
Lena Waithe
#5. Chris Hillman (of the Byrds) recounts ... 'What happened to the Buffulo Springfield at the Whisky was similar to what happened to us at Ciro's ... everybody wanted to be there. It became the place to be ... a great gig.'
Johnny Rogan
#6. A huge meringue with polio who drives everywhere in a beautifully restored Hillman Imp.
St John Morris
#7. By tomorrow at this time, I think you're going to have a much better idea of what crazy is.
Ev Hillman
Stephen King
#8. Sorrow is humbling. I want my pain to be fabulous. I don't need my pain to be worse than anyone else's; I just want it to be strangely, uniquely mine. Art to someone else's breakdown.
- Thea Hillman, "Dear Kath After"
from the anthology Pills, Thrills, Chills, and Heartache
Clint Catalyst
#9. Vessels expose the invisible Zeitgeist, the visible formed by the invisible.
James Hillman
#10. Behind all the falling rain, the sun still hangs in the sky. And if the sun can hang in there through the rain, surely you can, too.
Elsie Hillman-Gordon
#11. I was a lucky kid. You could have got 10 kids to be in The Byrds who were better than I was.
Chris Hillman
#12. To hope for nothing, to expect nothing, to demand nothing. This is analytical despair.
James Hillman
#13. "Go and Say Goodbye" by the Buffalo Springfield stands as one of the first examples of what would later be branded country rock
Chris Hillman
#14. God doesn't keep us from trouble; He keeps us through it.
Pam Hillman
#15. It does wonders for my own psyche to turn envy into inspiration. No matter how successful we become, we're never above that.
Hillman Curtis
#16. Words are like pillows: if put correctly they ease pain.
James Hillman
#17. The idea of death robs inquiry of its passionate vitality and empties our efforts of their purpose by coming to one predestined conclusion, death. Why inquire if you already know the answer?
James Hillman
#18. Love and loathing can hold no surprises for most people in middle age. What we haven't gorged on, we've sampled.
Robert Hillman
#19. Until the culture recognizes the legitimacy of growing down, each person in the culture struggles blindly to make sense of the darkness that the soul requires to deepen into life.
James Hillman
#20. Love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, boredom. Relationships fail not because we have stopped loving but because we first stopped imagining.
James Hillman
#21. My suggestion is that there's no way out of the human condition. Sex, death, marriage, children, parents, illness. There's no way out. They're a misery, all of them.
James Hillman
#22. Too many people have been analyzing their pasts, their childhoods, their memories, their parents, and realizing that it doesn't do anything-or that it doesn't do enough.
James Hillman
#23. Fatalism accounts for life as a whole. Whatever happens can be fit within the large generality of individuation, or my journey, or growth. Fatalism comforts, for it raises no questions. There's no need to examine just how events fit in.
James Hillman
#24. If you're always a giver, give yourself a break. Take time for yourself; your well-being is at stake. If you're always a receiver, try a turn at giving. Experience for yourself one of the joys of living.
Elsie Hillman-Gordon
#25. Each of us needs an adequate biography: How do I put together into a coherent image the pieces of my life? How do I find the basic plot of my story?
James Hillman
#26. 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 one. We want a 401-k plan and Social Security.
James Hillman
#27. Well, if I'm only a result of past causes, then I'm a victim of those past causes. There is no deeper meaning behind things that gives me a reason to be here.
James Hillman
#28. Yes, there's genetics. Yes, there are chromosomes. Yes, there's biology. Yes, there are environment, sociology, parenting, economics, class, and all of that. But there is something else, as well.
James Hillman
#29. It's very hard in our adversarial society to find a third view. Take journalism, where everything is always presented as one person against another: "Now we're going to hear the opposing view." There is never a third view.
James Hillman
#30. To see the angel in the malady requires an eye for the invisible, a certain blinding of one eye and an opening of the other to elsewhere.
James Hillman
#31. Anytime you're gonna grow, you're gonna lose something. You're losing what you're hanging onto to keep safe. You're losing habits that you're comfortable with, you're losing familiarity.
James Hillman
#32. I'm tired of resisting love. Love will never be safe, but we've seen the alternative.
Thea Hillman
#33. 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 here for.
James Hillman
#34. Our lives are determined less by our childhood than by the traumatic way we have learned to remember our childhoods.
James Hillman
#35. Politics is the science of who gets what, when, and why.
Sidney Hillman
#36. We are human less by virtue of our ideal goals than by the vice of our inferiority.
James Hillman
#37. I think Gram did his best work in co-writes. Sometimes when you're working with one other person, it's such a magical thing. You're editing each other and you're trying to create that one spark.
Chris Hillman
#38. Too often in the west we fail to realize that even in eastern disciplines the spiritual life is not meant as an escape from the worldly life. There is karma to be fulfilled on earth, within the dharma of necessity.
James Hillman
#39. My dad founded the 'Rancho Santa Fe Times' and won a lot of journalism awards.
Chris Hillman
#40. The soul of our civilization depends upon the civilization of our soul. The imagination of our culture calls for a culture of the imagination.
James Hillman
#42. You are born with a character; it is given, a gift, as the old stories say, from the guardians upon your birth ... Each person enters the world called.
James Hillman
#43. To the question, "Why am I old?" the usual answer is, "Because I am becoming dead." But the facts show that I reveal more character as I age, not more death.
James Hillman
#44. Anything you attend to carefully can bring blessing ...
James Hillman
#45. 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 to re-examine what their power is. We need to understand how to use it.
James Hillman
#46. I can't prove to you that there is a God, I just know. All this suffering has to have a reason.
Laura Hillman
#47. If Christ Himself needed to retire from time to time to the mountain-top to pray, lesser men need not be ashamed to acknowledge that necessity.
Burnett Hillman Streeter
#48. Remember that in the early days of the feminist movement, they refused to have a leader; different women would just stand up and speak. The early feminists were very careful to not put what was spontaneously arising back in the old bottle.
James Hillman
#49. Words, like angels, are powers which have invisible power over us ...
James Hillman
#50. That's my wish for our community, as it were, that during this very confusing and amazing time, we be gentle with ourselves, and with each other.
Thea Hillman
#51. We need to have an educational system that's able to embrace all sorts of minds, and where a student doesn't have to fit into a certain mold of learning.
James Hillman
#52. Many people nowadays who discover that they have a major symptom, whether psychological or physical, begin to study it. They get drawn very deeply into the area of their trouble. They want to know more than their doctor. That's a curious thing, and not at all the way it used to be.
James Hillman
#53. I don't think you can revive traditions on purpose.
James Hillman
#54. It's very important for men to look downward, to the next generation.
James Hillman
#55. By setting up a universe which tends to hold everything we do, see, and say in the sway of its cosmos, an archetype is best comparable with a God
James Hillman
#56. Writing books for me is anyway much like a military campaign. I confess to fighting my way through with military metaphors. There is a strategy, an overall concept, and there are tactics along the way ... Tradition would say I was a 'child of Mars.'
James Hillman
#57. The reason for designing new media is simple - to subtly and quietly change the world.
Hillman Curtis
#58. When I was playing bluegrass, I was living down in West Hollywood - starving.
Chris Hillman
#59. We dull our lives by the way we conceive them.
James Hillman
#60. It's better to go into the world half-cocked than not to go into the world at all.
James Hillman
#61. We forget that the soul has its own ancestors.
James Hillman
#62. I am not caused by my history-my parents, my childhood and development. These are mirrors in which I may catch glimpses of my image.
James Hillman
#63. From my perspective as a depth psychologist, I see that those who have a connection with story are in better shape and have better prognosis than those to whom story must be introduced.
James Hillman
#64. If you are still being hurt by an event that happened to you at twelve, it is the thought that is hurting you now.
James Hillman
#65. {She] ain't got the sense God gave a goat.
Pam Hillman
#66. You don't attack the grunts of Vietnam; you blame the theory behind the war. Nobody who fought in that war was at fault. It was the war itself that was at fault. It's the same thing with psychotherapy.
James Hillman
#67. So when you consider the archetypal, historical, and cultural background of whatever you do, it gives you a sense that your occupation can be a calling and not just a job.
James Hillman
#68. We vote for Perot. We think he's a great, marvelous, honest man. We send money to his campaign, even though he is one of the richest capitalists in our culture. Imagine, sending money to Perot! It's unbelievable, yet it's part of that worship of individuality.
James Hillman
#69. We are the oneness in love, joy and happy. We share this moment in time to experience the fullest and expansion of all our existence to collapse and be redefine into the truth of who and what we are and always will be. ~jh
Jennifer Hillman
#70. If you could ask that question more precisely, you probably wouldn't be interested in the answer anymore
Chris Hillman
#72. Miracle it is to find the right words, words that carry soul accurately,
James Hillman
#73. The transfiguration of matter occurs through wonder.
James Hillman
#74. Psychology, so dedicated to awakening human consciousness, needs to wake itself up to one of the most ancient human truths: we cannot be studied or cured apart from the planet.
James Hillman
#75. To be sane, we must recognise our beliefs as fictions.
James Hillman
#76. Psychology is ultimately mythology, the study of the stories of the soul.
James Hillman
#77. I've found that contemporary psychology enrages me with its simplistic ideas of human life, and also its emptiness.
James Hillman
#78. Pathology is not a problem to be solved, but the soul's way of working on itself.
James Hillman
#80. When they talk about family values, it's in a repressive way, as if our American tradition were only the Puritan tradition or the 19th century oppressive tradition. The Christian tradition.
James Hillman
#81. What you know
and don't deny that
you don't know
and knowing this
you know
what and why
you don't know.
Right?
Jennifer Hillman
#82. Do you have a situation in which you're having trouble discerning whether God is protecting you or Satan is hindering you? Ask God to show you His way.
Os Hillman
#83. Tell me what you yearn for and I shall tell you who you are. We are what we reach for, the idealized image that drives our wandering.
James Hillman
#85. Open your heart, your gaze, to the visitations of angels, even if the gifts they bring may not be centeredness and balance but eccentricity and a wholly unfamiliar sense of pleasure called joy.
James Hillman
#86. Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable.
James Hillman
#87. Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind.
James Hillman
#88. You can be many things if you are British and still belong.
Robert Hillman
#89. All along, I did what I was comfortable doing, which was to play the music I enjoyed and try to stretch the parameters a bit. Country and bluegrass and folk were my foundation.
Chris Hillman
#90. I wrote something when I was 9 that seemed pretty good for a 9 year old; it concerned flowers in our family garden - I was grateful my mother praised it. Of course, I found out later it was pretty silly, but it was the first poem I was proud of.
Brenda Hillman
#91. I can't read all the books I want to read, I can't watch all the phenomena that interest me in the world. The work calls me, and sometimes I wonder whether this is an obsession and I should drop it, or it's a necessity I'm obliged to fulfill.
James Hillman
#92. The kinds of things that poetry can offer are timeless - mainly the kind of compression it offers of powerful language, powerful feelings and images, and, you know, the inner experience becoming outer.
Brenda Hillman
#93. 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 is not just inside the kid; it's also in the system, the society.
James Hillman
#94. As an adult, I know about life and death. I know that good people can die too soon and bad ones can live too long. I know that life's not fair, and you take the bitter with the sweet and balance it all as best you can.
Elsie Hillman-Gordon
#96. We are driven by the results of the Big Bang, billions of years ago, which eventually produced life, which eventually produced human beings, and so on. But me? I'm an accident - a result - and therefore a victim.
James Hillman
#97. Food is so fundamental, more so than sexuality, aggression, or learning, that it is astounding to realize the neglect of food and eating in depth psychology.
James Hillman
#98. The moment the angel enters a life it enters an environment. We are ecological from day one.
James Hillman
#99. How can Hitler, or some other murderer, appear in this world? I don't think any single theory can account for the phenomenon, and I think it's a mistake to try to reduce it to being brutalized by your parents or having grown up in some horrible situation - like Charles Manson.
James Hillman
#100. Any symptom can force you to go deeper into some area.
James Hillman
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