Carl Jung Quotes

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

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Thinking, People

  "Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies". Book by C.G. Jung, translated by R.F.C. Hull, 1969.

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• Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness's of other people. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. 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.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Heart, Light

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

  Carl Jung

  Relationship, Leadership, Spiritual

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

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• The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

  Carl Jung

  World, Knows, Asks

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  Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.

  Carl Jung

  Way, Like You, Deceiving

  Carl Gustav Jung (2009). “Liber Novus”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• That which we do not confront in ourselves we will meet as fate.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Fate

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• Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Doe, Research

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• Life calls not for perfection, but for completeness.

  Carl Jung

  Perfection, Completeness

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Scott Montague Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1953). “The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: Psychology and alchemy”

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

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Privilege, Introvert

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• VOCATUS ATQUE NON VOCATUS DEUS ADERIT.

  Carl Jung

  Tombstone, Pagan

  Carl Gustav Jung (2009). “Liber Novus”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• A man likes to believe that he is the master of his soul. But as long as he is unable to control his moods and emotions, or to be conscious of the myriad secret ways in which unconscious factors insinuate themselves into his arrangements and decisions, he is certainly not his own master.

  Carl Jung

  Believe, Men, Long

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• The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire

  Carl Jung

  Good Life, Fire, Differences

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• One finds one's destiny on the path one takes to avoid it.

  Carl Jung

  Destiny, Path

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• The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Letting Go, Healthy

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• In every adult there lurks a child— an eternal child, something that is always becoming, is never completed, and calls for unceasing care, attention, and education. That is the part of the personality which wants to develop and become whole.

  Carl Jung

  Children, Personality, Adults

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

  Carl Jung

  Life, Positive, Law Of Attraction

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

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• Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words.

  Carl Jung

  Healing, Talking, Silence

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• The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.

  Carl Jung

  Suffering, Foundation, Mindfulness

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• People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. They will practice Indian yoga and all its exercises, observe a strict regimen of diet, learn the literature of the whole world - all because they cannot get on with themselves and have not the slightest faith that anything useful could ever come out of their own souls.

  Carl Jung

  Yoga, Exercise, Order

  "Psychology and Alchemy". Book by Carl Jung. CW 12, par. 126, p. 99, 1952.

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• We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Wish, Happened

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• Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full.

  Carl Jung

  Real, Feelings, Painful

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.335, Princeton University Press

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• To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.

  Carl Jung

  Normal, Unsuccessful, Aim

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• If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.

  Carl Jung

  Gratitude, Emotion, Wonder

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• Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Loneliness, Being Alone

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

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

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Wise, Dream

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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