Carl Jung on Anxiety Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

"Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering."

"We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses."

"The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong."

"Deep down, below the surface of the average man's conscience, he hears a voice whispering, 'There is something not right,' no matter how much his rightness is supported by public opinion."

"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate."

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

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

"Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism."

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

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

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

"There is no coming to consciousness without pain."

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

"One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious."

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

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

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

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

"Shame is a soul-eating emotion."

"Depression is like a woman in black. If she turns up, don't rout her out. Invite her in, offer her a seat, treat her as a guest and listen to what she wants to say."

"Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not."

"Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts."

"Man’s task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious."

"The great problems of life are never solved. They are only outgrown."

"Shrinking from life is the equivalent of shrinking from oneself."

"The reason for the existence of the neurosis is the refusal to endure the suffering that is necessary."

"The greatest burden a child must bear is the unlived life of its parents."

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