Carl Jung Quotes - Page 3

• 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. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

  Carl Jung

  Love, Happiness, Sad

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• Trust that which gives you meaning and accept it as your guide

  Carl Jung

  Giving, Accepting, Guides

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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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• 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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• Normality is a fine ideal for those who have no imagination.

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  Imagination, Fine, Ideals

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• Neurosis is the natural by-product of pain avoidance.

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  Pain, Neurosis, Natural

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• We discover ourselves through others.

  Carl Jung

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

  Carl Jung

  Life, Leadership, Thoughtful

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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• Intuition is one of the four basic psychological functions along with thinking, feeling,and sensing.

  Carl Jung

  Thinking, Feelings, Intuition

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• Conflict exists strictly as an opportunity to raise our consciousness.

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  Opportunity, Consciousness, Conflict

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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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• When goals go, meaning goes. When meaning goes, purpose goes. When purpose goes, life goes dead on our hands.

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  Hands, Goal, Purpose

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• In each of us is another whom we do not know. He speaks to us in dreams and tells us how differently he sees us from the way we see ourselves.

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  Dream, Way, Speak

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1964). “Civilization in transition”

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• I've realized that somebody who's tired and needs a rest, and goes on working all the same is a fool.

  Carl Jung

  Tired, Needs, Goes On

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• Where love stops, power begins, and violence, and terror

  Carl Jung

  Violence, Terror

  Carl Gustav Jung (2013). “The Undiscovered Self”, p.74, Routledge

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• The sad truth is that man's real life consists of a complex of inexorable opposites - day and night, birth and death, happiness and misery, good and evil. We are not even sure that one will prevail against the other, that good will overcome evil, or joy defeat pain. Life is a battleground. It always has been and always will be; and if it were not so, existence would come to an end.

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  Pain, Real, Night

  Carl Gustav Jung (2012). “Man and His Symbols”, p.110, Dell

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

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  Thoughtful, Order, Secret Love

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.32, Princeton University Press

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• We have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions.

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  Dream, Vision, Age

  Carl Gustav Jung (2012). “Man and His Symbols”, p.133, Dell

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• Learn your theories as well as you can, but put them aside when you touch the miracle of the living soul

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  Miracle, Soul, Theory

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• 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.

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  Love, Inspirational, Life

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

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• What you resist persist.

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  Goal, Persist

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• Just as we tend to assume that the world is as we see it, we naively suppose that people are as we imagine them to be.

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  People, World, Assuming

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Structure and dynamics of the psyche”

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• As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.
  Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart ... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
  The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Heart, Night

  Memories, Dreams, Reflections ch. 11 (1962)

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• The descent into the depths always seems to precede the ascent.

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  Depth, Ascent, Descent

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.19, Princeton University Press

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• One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

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  Thank You, Education, Thankful

  Carl Gustav Jung (1970). “The development of personality”

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