Carl Jung Quotes

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

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Privilege, Introvert

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• Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

  Carl Jung

  Humor, Fate, Grandchildren

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

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Wish, Happened

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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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• 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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• Nothing affects the life of a child so much as the unlived life of its parent

  Carl Jung

  Children, Parent

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

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Doe, Research

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• Be grateful for your difficulties and challenges, for they hold blessings. In fact... Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health personal growth, individuation and self-actualisation.

  Carl Jung

  Gratitude, Grateful, Blessing

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

  Carl Jung

  Positive, Inspiring, Inspiration

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• We don't get wounded alone and we don't heal alone.

  Carl Jung

  Heal, Wounded

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• Embrace your grief. For there, your soul will grow.

  Carl Jung

  Grief, Loss, Soul

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

  Carl Jung

  Normal, Unsuccessful, Aim

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• No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Roots, Tree

  Carl Gustav Jung, Murray Stein (1999). “Jung on Christianity”, p.82, Princeton University Press

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• We don't really heal anything; we simply let it go.

  Carl Jung

  Let It Go, Heal

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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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• The most important question anyone can ask is: What myth am I living?

  Carl Jung

  Important, Myth, Asks

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

  Carl Jung

  Change, Acceptance, Thoughtful

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

  Carl Jung

  Friendship, Relationship, Positive

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.49, Psychology Press

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