James Hillman Quotes About Fathers

Quotes about: Fathers

• 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

  Father, Mirrors, Childhood

  James Hillman, Michael Ventura (1992). “We've had a hundred years of psychotherapy-- and the world's getting worse”, Harpercollins

• I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is one of the very few mistakes the Founding Fathers made

  James Hillman

  Father, Mistake, Thinking

• I just read about John Le Carre, the great spy novelist. He had an absolutely miserable childhood. His mother deserted him when he was young. His father was a playboy and a drunk. He was shifted around to many different homes. He knew he was a writer when he was about nine, but he was dyslexic. So here was a person with an absolutely messed-up childhood and a symptom that prevented him from doing what he wanted to do most. Yet that very symptom was part of the calling. It forced him to go deeper.

  James Hillman

  Mother, Father, Home

  Source: scottlondon.com

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