James Hillman Quotes

You can spend time self-identifying and figuring out what you are on that, but at some point, you just want to be who you are and not walk around telling people.

Before you can be anything, you have to be yourself. That's the hardest thing to find.

You have to know who you are, if you don't you have nightmares.

If you can understand the inner life, then you can wear the uniform, the tattoos, or whatnot and realize that the things that are different about us become superficial.

Argue with anything else, but don't argue with your own nature.

Figure out who you are.

We all want to be someone else but without ceasing to be ourselves. I think it's very important to defend this idea in real life too.

I don't know what else I would be if I wasn't me. I am not looking from the outside, looking back. I am who I am.

I think, personally, it's our flaws that define us to us - or maybe it's just me.

I know who I am. And after all these years, there's a victory in that.

Even if I turned myself in, it wouldn't change anything. It wouldn't make me one of them. I knew that when I got my powers, but really I knew it before then. I learned it as a child on my first day of school, on the warm rainy streets of Bangkok, and in college. If you're different you always know it, and you can't fix it even if you want to. What do you do when you find out your heart is the wrong kind? You take what you're given, and be the hero you can be. Hero to your own cold, inverted heart.

Success takes the courage to know who you really are and be comfortable with that.

One of the basic laws of human existence is: find yourself, know yourself, be yourself.

There are a lot of parts of who I am that no one in the public has ever known, but the older I've gotten, the more I've appreciated my own strange little self and come to terms with that.

Don't get confused with what people say you are, with who you know you are.

You only can hurt me if I don't know who I am.

For the future, I shall rely only upon those elements of my character which I have tested. Who would ever have said that I should find pleasure in shedding tears? That I should love the man who proves to me that I am nothing more than a fool?

The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.

True beauty is knowing who you are and what you want and never apologizing for it.

As a consumer of entertainment, as a director, I'm always interested in questions of identity and who someone is and how they're perceived and who they are versus who they thought they'd be.

You can't lose yourself.

I have never seen myself as leading for others. What's important is that I know who I am. Not completely. But I'm coming around third base.

I'd take a look at my own self in the mirror and wonder how it was possible that anybody could manage such an enormous thing as being what he was.

It took me years to learn that character is fate and that no one can be made over.

Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self: in which case, it is best that the garment be loose, a little like the robes of the desert, through which one's nakedness can always be felt, and, sometimes, discerned. This trust in one's nakedness is all that gives one the power to change one's robes.