Carl Jung Sayings and Quotes
Sayings by Carl Jung
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
Follow that will and that way
which experience confirms to be your own.
- Carl Jung
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What you resist, persists.
- Carl Jung
We cannot change anything until we accept it.
- Carl Jung
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The acceptance of oneself is
the essence of the whole moral problem
and the epitome of a whole outlook on life.
- Carl Jung
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
- Carl Jung
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
- Carl Jung
When an inner situation is not made conscious,
it appears outside as fate.
- Carl Jung
We deem those happy, who from the experience of life
have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
- Carl Jung
There can be no transforming of darkness into light
and of apathy into movement without emotion.
- Carl Jung
Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
- Carl Jung
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life
than the greatest of things without it.
- 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 how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.
- Carl Jung
I am not what happened to me,
I am what I choose to become.
- Carl Jung
Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.
- Carl Jung
The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
- Carl Jung
Children are educated by what the grown-up is
and not by his talk.
- Carl Jung
Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict
between thinking and feeling.
- Carl Jung
In all chaos there is a cosmos,
in all disorder a secret order.
- Carl Jung
People will do anything, no matter how absurd,
to avoid facing their own souls.
- Carl Jung
If one does not understand a person,
one tends to regard him as a fool.
- Carl Jung
Everything that irritates us about others
can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
- Carl Jung
Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only
by the man who is as well organized
in his individuality as the mass itself.
- Carl Jung
There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
- Carl Jung
The greatest and most important problems of life
are all fundamentally insoluble.
They can never be solved but only outgrown.
- Carl Jung
Show me a sane man, and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Jung
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions
has never overcome them.
- Carl Jung
Until you make the unconscious conscious,
it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
- Carl Jung
Every form of addiction is bad,
no matter whether the narcotic
be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
- Carl Jung
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy.
What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
- Carl Jung
We cannot change anything until we accept it.
Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
- Carl Jung
We should not pretend to understand the world
only by the intellect.
The judgment of the intellect
is only part of the truth.
- Carl Jung
The pendulum of the mind alternates
between sense and nonsense,
not between right and wrong.
- Carl Jung
The shoe that fits one person pinches another;
there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
- 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
Who has fully realized that history
is not contained in thick books
but lives in our very blood?
- Carl Jung
Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off
a portion of one's being,
but by integration of the contraries.
- Carl Jung
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung
Every human life contains a potential,
if that potential is not fulfilled,
then that life was wasted...
- 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
As far as we can discern,
the sole purpose of human existence
is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
- Carl Jung
Understanding does not cure evil,
but it is a definite help,
inasmuch as one can cope
with a comprehensible darkness.
- Carl Jung
The word "happiness" would lose its meaning
if it were not balanced by sadness.
- Carl Jung
Nobody, as long as he moves about
among the chaotic currents of life,
is without trouble.
- Carl Jung
Shrinking away from death
is something unhealthy and abnormal -
which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
- Carl Jung
The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do
is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.
- Carl Jung
Man's task is to become conscious of the contents
that press upward from the unconscious.
- Carl Jung
The healthy man does not torture others -
generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
- Carl Jung
Follow Sayings
When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
- Khalil Gibran
Follow your bliss and doors will open
where there were no doors before.
- Joseph Campbell
When you follow your bliss,
doors will open for you
that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell
Follow Your Dreams.
- Anonymous
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition -
they somehow already know what you truly want to become.
- Steve Jobs
You can choose to follow your heart always.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lead follow or get out of the way.
- Thomas Paine
Follow your own star.
- Anonymous
I follow my intuition,
and it leads me along the Right Path.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do what you love and the money will follow.
- Marsha Sinetar
I follow my own star and my own inner compass.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I choose to live a life of gratitude and joy,
inspiring others to follow my example.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are times, sir, when men of good conscience
cannot blindly follow orders.
- Captain Picard, STAR TREK: The Next Generation
Follow what you are genuinely passionate about
and let that guide you to your destination.
- Diane Sawyer
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
Follow your instincts.
That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
- Oprah Winfrey
Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish.
Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Listen to all, plucking a feather
from every passing goose,
but, follow no one absolutely.
- Chinese Proverb
Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.
- Albert Camus
I must follow the people.
Am I not their leader?
- Benjamin Disraeli
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