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Carl Jung Quotes about Life

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

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

Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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

Life, Leadership, Thoughtful

Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.

Life, Positive, Law Of Attraction

Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, R. F.C. Hull (1954). “The practice of psychotherapy”, Bollingen

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

Life, Thoughtful, Shoes

Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.62, Psychology Press

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

Life, Wisdom, Thinking

Ernest Jones, Carl Gustav Jung, James Hillman (1995). “Salt and the alchemical soul: three essays”, Spring Pubns

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.

Love, Inspirational, Life

šber die Psychologie des Unbewussten (On the Psychology of the Unconscious, 1917) in Gesammelte Werke (1964) vol. 7, p. 58

The man who speaks with primordial images, speaks with a thousand tongues.

Inspirational, Life, Men

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

Love, Inspirational, Life

Memories, Dreams, Reflections ch. 11 (1962)

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

Life, Loving Life, Follow Your Heart

It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how he continually feeds it and keeps it going.

Life, Men, Tragedy

Carl Gustav Jung (1959). “pt. 1. The archetypes and the collective unconscious”

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Inspirational, Life, Children

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Inspirational, Life, Happiness

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

Life, Thoughtful, Heartache

Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.67, Psychology Press

Wo die Liebe herrscht, da gibt es keinen machtwillen, und wo die macht den vorrang hat, da fehlt die Liebe. Das eine ist der Schatten des andern. Translation: 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.

Life, Love Is, Shadow

šber die Psychologie des Unbewussten (On the Psychology of the Unconscious, 1917) in Gesammelte Werke (1964) vol. 7, p. 58

An old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as the young man who is unable to embrace it.

Life, Farewell, Men

Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.114, Psychology Press

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Inspirational, Funny, Life

Carl Gustav Jung (1969). “Psychology and religion: west and east”

The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility, deprives him of his wholeness and imposes a painful fragmentariness on his life.

Life, Failure, Responsibility

Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

As any change must begin somewhere, it is the single individual who will experience it and carry it through. The change must indeed begin with an individual; it might be any one of us. Nobody can afford to look round and to wait for somebody else to do what he is loath to do himself.

Life, Change, Waiting

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

Life, Acceptance, Important

Moreover, my ancestors' souls are sustained by the atmosphere of the house, since I answer for them the questions that their lives once left behind. I carve out rough answers as best I can. I have even drawn them on the walls. It is as if a silent, greater family, stretching down the centuries, were peopling the house.

Life, Wall, House

Carl Gustav Jung, Meredith Sabini (2002). “The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung”, p.36, North Atlantic Books

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