Carl Jung on Change Quotes

"What you resist, persists."

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

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

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

"Shrinking from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose."

"The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved, but only outgrown."

"There is no coming to consciousness without pain."

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

"Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also."

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

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

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

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

"Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling."

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself."

"Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart."

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

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

"If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool."

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

"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."

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

"Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."

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

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

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

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