James Hillman Quotes

The most wonderful thing in the world is somebody who knows who they are and knows where they're going and knows what they were created to do

Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.

To find one's calling is perhaps not the easiest thing in the world, but probably the most important.

There's nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you're meant to do. It's like falling in love.

It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?

Sometimes you just know what you're placed on this earth to do.

You do have to follow your heart, otherwise you're living a false life.

I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist.

Change makes you find your calling, your legacy, and God's divine plan for your life. Don't run from it.

I feel like in a world where we all try to figure out our place and our purpose here, your passions are one of your most obvious guides.

Your job is not just to do what your parents say, what your teachers say, what society says, but to figure out what your heart calling is and to be led by that.

After a few years, I understood that this is what I was meant to do.

There's a purpose for me. And my purpose is to wake people up.

There's the part of me that's the organizer, part of me that's the artist, part of me that's the person who, even with those two things, wants to figure out what my place in the world is. How to engage with it and whether my life has any meaning.

The two most important days in your life are the day your are born and the day you find out why.

It's a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you've been to all the places you don't need to be.

There are lots of things we're able to do, but I'd like to land on the one thing I was MADE to do.

Vocation does not come from willfulness. It comes from listening. I must listen to my life and try to understand what it is truly about-quite apart from what I would like it to be about-or my life will never represent anything real in the world, no matter how earnest my intentions…..Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am. I must listen for the truths and values at the heart of my own identity, not the standards by which I must live-but the standards by which I cannot help but live if I am living my own life.

Finding your passion isn't just about careers and money. It's about finding your authentic self. The one you've buried beneath other people's needs.

Find your purpose, find your voice.

Do what you really want to do. That's why God put you on this earth.

When I was growing up in Terrell, Texas, I felt that it was not where I was supposed to be. I knew that I was meant for a different destination. I think that the minute I was born, there was something inside telling me where I would go, it's like energy - an intangible destiny.

Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.

I believe life takes us where we need to be.

I'm really clear about what my life mission is now. There's no more depression or lethargy, and I feel like I've returned to the athlete I once was. I'm integrating all the parts of me - jock, musician, writer, poet, philosopher - and becoming stronger as a result.