James Hillman Quotes

I'm not a potato sack; I've never sat on my couch. If I'm home, I'm cleaning, feeding my dogs, doing stuff. Life is too precious to waste time.

If you nurture your mind, body, and spirit, your time will expand. You will gain a new perspective that will allow you to accomplish much more.

I took some time out for life.

Give yourself permission to get the most out of your life. If you're spending all your time scrubbing corners with a toothbrush, you're kind of missing the point. Taking shortcuts doesn't mean shortcutting the end result.

The older I get the more I try not to waste my time on negative energy.

I believe in nurturing the inner world.

We all strive for balance, often moving to extremes to find ourselves somewhere in the middle where we can sustainably exist in optimal inspiration. Working toward balance takes a lot of ingredients. We need courage, reflection, attention, action, and a push-and-pull relationship between effort and relaxation.

It's important to know when we need to stop, reflect, and receive. In our competitive world, that might be called a waste of time.

Until my Yoga practice became the great facilitator of all things in my life, the integration of career, purpose and motherhood felt like an unattainable dream.

We live life in the marketplace and then we go off to the cave or to the meditation mat to replenish ourselves.

Sometimes we think we are too busy to pray. That is a great mistake, for praying is a saving of time.

We need time to dream, time to remember, and time to reach the infinite. Time to be.

Continued work and application form my soul's nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live.

We have been moving along at such a fast pace that we no longer know what we are doing. Now we have to wait until our soul catches up with us.

Yes, take a little time to play And look at life the other way. God rested when the world was made: Rest now, old friend; be not afraid. But think not that your work is over, That you are now a foot-free rover, A rambler upon idle ways, Whittling away the golden days. For in the road climb to the goal There's no long furlough for a soul. There's no long pause: on every height Another summit swims in sight. The long road rises, scene by scene, With little restings in between.

My biggest change is what is important to me, and what is not. What's worthy worrying about, and what is not. When we're younger, we tend to spend too much time worrying and going over the unnecessary. I'm no longer running the hamster wheel.

I find that when I put my spiritual life first, the rest of my life is easy. When I put my career first, that's when I have problems.

What we spend our time on is probably the most important decision we make.

But by taking the time away, getting myself off the treadmill, and just slowing down and learning, I felt I had so much more to give back. And maybe that was something that needed to happen for all of us.

The beauty comes with the balance. Everyone should find his own balance in his personal as well as his professional life. Once you do so, you will feel and look beautiful.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Early One Morning takes time and, I mean, all things like that I felt were very important.

You would not believe how much time people waste in a day. And how little time they put into things they genuinely love.

One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren't enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.

I learned early that you only have so much energy to give. You have to spend it correctly.