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I see happiness as a by-product. I dont think you can pursue happi

I see happiness as a by-product. I dont think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is one of the very few mistakes the Founding Fathers made. – James Hillman

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In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient. – James Hillman

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We cant change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently. – James Hillman

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I dont think anything changes until ideas change. The usual American viewpoint is to believe that something is wrong with the person. – James Hillman

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Before the boat docked, however, he confessed because he was contemplating running for president, he couldnt separate from his wife. I believed him when he told me he faced a difficult choice between pursuing personal happiness and his political destiny. – Donna Rice

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Ive had a good life. Enough happiness, enough success. – Michael Landon

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Every happiness is a hostage to fortune. – Arthur Helps

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I dont get a sense of American pride. I just get a sense that everyone is here, battling the same thing – that around the world everybodys after the same thing, just some minor piece of happiness each day. – Paul Thomas Anderson

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Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price. – Bill Keller

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He used this great, sad, motionless face to suggest various related things: a one-track mind near the tracks end of pure insanity; mulish imperturbability under the wildest of circumstances; how dead a human being can get and still be alive… – James Agee

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