For better to come, good must stand aside. -Carl Jung
The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely. -Carl Jung
Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.-Carl Jung
Shame is a soul eating emotion. -Carl Jung
What you resist, persists. -Carl Jung
Words are animals, alive with a will of their own. -Carl Jung
We cannot change anything unless we accept it. -Carl Jung
There’s no coming to consciousness without pain. -Carl Jung
The true leader is always led. -Carl Jung
I don’t aspire to be a good man. I aspire to be a whole man. -Carl Jung
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. -Carl Jung
You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do. -Carl Jung
The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are. -Carl Jung
I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become. -Carl Jung
Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling. -Carl Jung
Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one’s being, but by integration of the contraries. -Carl Jung
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. -Carl Jung
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain. -Carl Jung
It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how things are in themselves. The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it. -Carl Jung
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism. -Carl Jung
Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. -Carl Jung
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. -Carl Jung
Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering. -Carl Jung
The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories. -Carl Jung
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate. -Carl Jung
The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers. -Carl Jung
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent. -Carl Jung
Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence. -Carl Jung
Intuition does not denote something contrary to reason, but something outside of the province of reason. -Carl Jung
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. -Carl Jung
The highest, most decisive experience is to be alone with one’s own self. You must be alone to find out what supports you, when you find that you can not support yourself. Only this experience can give you an indestructible foundation. -Carl Jung
Faith, hope, love, and insight are the highest achievements of human effort. They are found -given- by experience. -Carl Jung
The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents. -Carl Jung
Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other. -Carl Jung
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
I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud. -Carl Jung
If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool. -Carl Jung
Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.-Carl Jung
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people. -Carl Jung
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
In each of us there is another whom we do not know. -Carl Jung
Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event. -Carl Jung
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. -Carl Jung
The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others. -Carl Jung
I am no longer alone with myself, and I can only artificially recall the scary and beautiful feeling of solitude. This is the shadow side of the fortune of love. -Carl Jung
Nobody can fall so low unless he has a great depth. If such a thing can happen to a man, it challenges his best and highest on the other side; that is to say, this depth corresponds to a potential height, and the blackest darkness to a hidden light. -Carl Jung
With a truly tragic delusion, these theologians fail to see that it is not a matter of proving the existence of the light, but of blind people who do not know that their eyes could see. It is high time we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is much more needful to teach people the art of seeing. -Carl Jung
The majority of my patients consisted not of believers but of those who had lost their faith. -Carl Jung
There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year’s course. 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. -Carl Jung
Somewhere, right at the bottom of one’s own being, one generally does know where one should go and what one should do. But there are times when the clown we call “I” behaves in such a distracting fashion that the inner voice cannot make its presence felt. -Carl Jung
To find out what is truly individual in ourselves, profound reflection is needed; and suddenly we realize how uncommonly difficult the discovery of individuality is. -Carl Jung
If we feel our way into the human secrets of the sick person, the madness also reveals its system, and we recognize in the mental illness merely an exceptional reaction to emotional problems which are not strange to us. -Carl Jung