James Hillman Quotes

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

We come into this world with a specific, personal destiny. We have a job to do, a calling to enact, a self to become. We are who we are from the cradle, and we're stuck with it.

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.

Each person has their own calling on this Earth.

For a while now I've had this feeling that there's something that I'm supposed to be doing or something that I'm supposed to contribute. I don't know what that is yet, but it's been plaguing me - like I've missed my calling somehow.

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

I always had the intuition, even as a little child, that I was called for a big project.

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.

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

I was always meant to be Khali.

Purpose has to do with one's calling - deciding what business you are in as a person.

You don't chose your passion, your passion choses you

All of us have to figure out our own passion, our own journey. Follow your heart.

Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.

Now at last I know why I was brought here and what I have to do.

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.

What I know for sure: Often we don't even realize who we're meant to be because we're so busy trying to live out someone else's ideas. But other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny.

I have a feeling that we have been placed on this earth for a special reason and although I have not fulfilled all my missions, I am trying.

We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.

It's a miracle when we finally discover whom we're best equipped to serve.

Instead of asking, “what do I want from life?,” a more powerful question is, “what does life want from me?

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

I had this great urge... I had it the day I was born. Some may call it destiny. My parents and friends called it dismaying.

Reading those turgid philosophers here in these remote stone buildings may not get you a job, but if those books have forced you to ask yourself questions about what makes life truthful, purposeful, meaningful, and redeeming, you have the Swiss Army Knife of mental tools, and it's going to come in handy all the time.