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I think what weakens people most is fear of wasting their strength. ↗

— Etty Hillesum

#i #i think #most #people #strength

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 much will it cost, and when can I pick him up? ↗

— James Hillman

#approach #ask #cars #cost #doctor

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 the United States; and American exceptionalism. In fact, American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories, from education to infrastructure. ↗

— James Hillman

#admit #afraid #already #american #backward

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 patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient. ↗

— James Hillman

#attempts #black #bowels #depression #hatred

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

#damn #depression #down #dysfunction #functioning

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

#event #happened #hurt #hurting #now

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 would want to grow up in that world? ↗

— James Hillman

#computer #earlier #grow #grow up #hours

I don't think anything changes until ideas change. The usual American viewpoint is to believe that something is wrong with the person. ↗

— James Hillman

#anything #believe #change #changes #i

I don't want to be known as the Hilton heiress, because I didn't do anything for that. ↗

— Paris Hilton

#because #heiress #hilton #i #known

It is impossible to see the angel unless you first have a notion of it. ↗

— James Hillman

#first #impossible #notion #see #unless