It's better to go into the world half-cocked than not to go into the world at all.

—James Hillman

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About James Hillman

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James Hillman (April 12, 1926 – October 27, 2011) was an American psychologist. He studied at, and then guided studies for, the C.G. Jung Institute in Zürich. He founded a movement toward archetypal psychology and retired into private practice, writing and traveling to lecture, until his death at his home...

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Do you really believe that humans invented the wheel out of their big brains alone, or fire, or baskets, or tools? Stones rolled downhill; bolts of fire shot from the sky and out of the earth; birds wove and probed and pounded, as did apes and elephants. The sciences that master nature were taught by nature how it could be mastered.

—James Hillman

There have been 5, 600 years of written history and 14, 600 wars have been recorded.

—James Hillman

For a relationship to stay alive, 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

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Our noses too, and our eyes and ears, are political instruments, protesters. An aesthetic response is a political action.… We know instinctively, aesthetically, when a fish stinks, when the sense of beauty is offended. Standing for these moments—and these moments occur each day, within every airless office building, seated in each crippling chair, inundated by senseless noise and fattened on industrial food—standing for our responses, these aesthetic reverberations of truth in the soul, may be the primary civic act of the citizen, the origin of caution and of the precautionary principle itself, with its warnings to stop, look, and listen.

—James Hillman

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Paradise is exactly like where you are right now… only much, much better.

—Laurie Anderson

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The only road to good shows is bad ones. Just go start having a bad time, and if you don't give up, you will get better.

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True love is supposed to make you into a better person—uplift you.

—Emily Giffin in Love the One You're With

Everyone should get to experience a love like that. That kind of love that makes us better people.

—R.K. Lilley in Grounded

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Lately I've been thinking it would have been better to have just been by myself. That way, at least all of high school wouldn't be tinged with his memory.

—Sarah Dessen in Along for the Ride

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