Carl Jung Quotes

"The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely."

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."

"The emotions are the very stuff of which life is made."

"Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living."

"At times I feel as if I am spread out over the landscape and inside things, and am myself living in every tree, in the splashing of the waves, in the clouds and the animals, in the procession of the seasons."

"Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering."

"There is no coming to consciousness without pain."

"You cannot produce great work if you are constantly dividing your attention; the best ideas require the solitude of a quiet mind."

"You are what you do, not what you say you'll do."

"I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become."

"Everything depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves."

"Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other."

"Synchronicity is an ever-present reality for those who have eyes to see."

"The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are."

"People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls."

"Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people."

"Shame is a soul-eating emotion."

"Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness."

"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being."

"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed."

"Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."

"The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable."

"Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one’s being, but by integration of the contraries."

"In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order."

"The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases."

"Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge."

"The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers."

"Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence."

"A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them."

"The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity."

"Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself."

"Where your fear is, there is your task."

"Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you."