#thing

When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home. ↗

— S. E. Hinton

#darkness #had #home #house #i

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

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

Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular path... this is what I must do, this is what I've got to have. This is who I am. ↗

— James Hillman

#call #got #i #i am #later

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

#behind #blame #fault #fought #grunts

Fear is a huge thing for older people. ↗

— James Hillman

#huge #huge thing #older #older people #people

The elder who is eliminating what time has done to the face, what life has done to the face, is making a statement for others to see: This is the way to be a good old person - it is to defeat this body that is doing things to you. Because you haven't changed. Your body's changing. ↗

— James Hillman

#body #changed #changing #defeat #doing

We carve out risk-free lives where nothing happens. ↗

— James Hillman

#happens #lives #nothing #out #risk-free

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

#air #another #back #bag #buy