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 JungI am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.
— Carl JungThe reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories.
— Carl JungEvery human life contains a potential, if that potential is not fulfilled, then that life was wasted.
— Carl JungWe are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.
— Carl JungPeople don’t have ideas. Ideas have people.
— Carl JungCreative power is mightier than its possessor.
— Carl JungI have always been impressed by the fact that there are a surprising number of individuals who never use their minds if they can avoid it, and an equal number who do use their minds, but in an amazingly stupid way.
— Carl JungThere is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own Soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.
— Carl JungNights through dreams tell the myths forgotten by the day.
— Carl JungWhat you resist, persists.
— Carl JungNo tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.
— Carl JungThe shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
— Carl JungThe best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.
— Carl JungMan cannot stand a meaningless life.
— Carl JungIf you have nothing at all to create, then perhaps you create yourself.
— Carl JungIt is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how he continually feeds it and keeps it going.
— Carl JungThinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.
— Carl JungWho looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
— Carl JungWhat if I should discover that the poorest of the beggars and the most impudent of offenders are all within me; and that I stand in need of the alms of my own kindness—that I, myself, am the enemy who must be loved.
— Carl JungWhen an inner situation is not made conscious it appears outside as fate.
— Carl JungSolitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living.
— Carl JungIn each of us there is another whom we do not know.
— Carl JungThe most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely and still feel unwanted.
— Carl Jung