James Hillman Quotes

But words are more powerful than anything.

Words are also actions.

There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner.

Words are not simple things: they take unto themselves, as they have through time, power and meaning.

Your words are containers for power, and by the words you speak you frame your world!

Words people say not only have a shelf life but have the ability to shape life.

The power of the visible is the invisible.

Be careful with words, they're dangerous. Be wary of them. They begat either demons or angels. It's up to you to give life to one or the other. Be careful, I tell you, nothing is as dangerous as giving free rein to words

Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power.

To me, words are like stickpins. I can throw a word at you and it will bounce right off your body. But if I take that little stickpin and wire it to the back of an iron bar called human emotion, I can put that thing right through your heart.

Words are containers for power

A thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well.

Angels are men of a superior kind; Angels are men in lighter habit clad.

The older you get, the more power you have with language as a writer, which means that you have to be extra responsible for what you say, whether it's in print or in front of a microphone, because those words can go out and kill or go out and plant seeds for peace.

Two or three angels Came near to the earth. They saw a fat church. Little black streams of people Came and went in continually. And the angels were puzzled To know why the people went thus, And why they stayed so long within.

And this Feare of things invisible, is the naturall Seed of that, which every one in himself calleth Religion; and in them that worship, or feare that Power otherwise than they do, Superstition.

Few people realize the profound part angelic forces play in human events.

The rhetoric is the first step, it coarsens attitudes

To see the angel in the malady requires an eye for the invisible, a certain blinding of one eye and an opening of the other to elsewhere.

If words can be lethal weapons, I must provide them with an arsenal.

But most it is presumption in us when the help of heaven we count the act of men.

The pressure disappeared with the first word he put on paper. He thought--while his hand moved rapidly--what a power there was in words; later, for those who heard them, but first for the one who found them; a healing power, a solution, like the breaking of a barrier. He thought, perhaps the basic secret the scientists have not discovered, the first fount of life, is that which happens when a thought takes shape in words.

The word is not just a sound or a written symbol. The word is a force; it is the power you have to express and communicate, to think, and thereby to create the events in your life. The word is the most powerful tool you have as a human; it is a tool of magic.

Was it really so far-fetched to think that words had a way of shaping a person's whole life?

Words have power. Use the language of leadership versus the vocabulary of a victim.