43 quotes
"There is no coming to consciousness without pain."
- Carl Jung
Awareness
"Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism."
- Carl Jung
Awareness
"The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases."
- Carl Jung
Awareness
"The word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness."
- Carl Jung
Balance
"Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakes."
- Carl Jung
Transformation
"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate."
- Carl Jung
Self-awareness
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."
- Carl Jung
Self-awareness
"In each of us, there is another whom we do not know."
- Carl Jung
Self-awareness
"Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."
- Carl Jung
Self-awareness
"The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are."
- Carl Jung
Self-awareness
"Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."
- Carl Jung
Self-awareness
"Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart."
- Carl Jung
Self-awareness
"Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens."
- Carl Jung
Self-awareness
"The Moon can only fill up once it becomes empty. And it can only shine in all its glory once it's gone through its darkest expression. It doesn't berate its darkness or wish for it to be any other way (as far as we know)."
- Carl Jung
Personal Growth
"The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it."
- Carl Jung
Personal Growth
"I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become."
- Carl Jung
Personal Growth
"The Moon can only fill up once it becomes empty. And it can only shine in all its glory once it’s gone through its darkest expression. It doesn’t berate its darkness or wish for it to be any other way (as far as we know)."
- Carl Jung
Inspiration
"The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct."
- Carl Jung
Creativity
"You are what you do, not what you say you'll do."
- Carl Jung
Belief in Self
"Medicines cure diseases, but only doctors can cure patients."
- Carl Jung
Healing
"Medicines can cure diseases, but only doctors can cure patients."
- Carl Jung
Healing
""The meeting of two personalities is like contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.""
- Carl Jung
Connection to Earth
"The meeting of two personalities is like contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed."
- Carl Jung
Connection to Earth
"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens."
- Carl Jung
Insight
"People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious."
- Carl Jung
Insight
"We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses."
- Carl Jung
Change
"The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers."
- Carl Jung
Health
"Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health."
- Carl Jung
Health
"One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child."
- Carl Jung
Education
"Music should be an essential part of every analysis."
- Carl Jung
Education
"Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk."
- Carl Jung
Education
"One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is a vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child."
- Carl Jung
Education
"An understanding heart is everything in a teacher and cannot be esteemed highly enough."
- Carl Jung
Education
"One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings."
- Carl Jung
Gratitude
"I am not what happened to me; I am what I choose to become."
- Carl Jung
Self-improvement
"A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them."
- Carl Jung
Self-improvement
"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being."
- Carl Jung
Philosophy
"A human being would certainly not grow to be 70 or 80 years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species to which he belongs. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning."
- Carl Jung
Philosophy
"What you resist, persists"
- Carl Jung
Philosophy
"The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable."
- Carl Jung
Imagination
"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being."
- Carl Jung
Spirituality
"…the sole purpose of human experience is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being."
- Carl Jung
Spirituality
"Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also."
- Carl Jung
Knowledge