Carl Jung on Change Quotes

"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."

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

"What you resist, persists."

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

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

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

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

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

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

"An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough."

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

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

"The transition from morning to afternoon means a revaluation of the earlier values."

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

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