James Hillman Quotes

I don't want to go anywhere; I don't want to leave anybody behind. Happiness is right here, right now, in this world, in this room. I am happiest wherever it is that I am.

Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

I don't need much to be happy.

The reason you want every single thing that you want, is because you think you will feel really good when you get there. But, if you don't feel really good on your way to there, you can't get there. You have to be satisfied with what-is while you're reaching for more.

Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

I really - I try not to look ahead too far into the future and really just appreciate the here and now.

The secret to life is finding joy in ordinary things. I'm interested in happiness.

You can be happy where you are.

There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way.

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

If you are not happy here and now, you never will be.

Enjoy doing nothing, and you can enjoy doing anything. Enjoy having nothing, and you can enjoy whatever you have.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available - more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don't have to run into the future in order to get more.

Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have.

Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy, but how much you enjoy what you have.

Don't think you're going to be happy when you get something. You have to be happy on your way to happy.

Happiness is found by deeply experiencing the exact moment we are in.

I've just learned to enjoy every moment for what it is and take it all in.

I'm sounding like Oprah, but if you're not practicing contentment where you are now, you're not getting contentment when you get what you want.

Sometimes I think we live in a world where, even when things are good, people always feel unsatisfied with wherever they are, so I think first I just want to enjoy being happy where I am now and not let my ambition take away from being in the moment.

I just see what's in front of me. That's what I'm happy with.