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

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Wish, Happened

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

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Privilege, Introvert

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

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Doe, Research

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

  Carl Jung

  Positive, Inspiring, Inspiration

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• The most dangerous things in the world are immense accumulations of human beings who are manipulated by only a few heads.

  Carl Jung

  World, Accumulation, Dangerous

  Carl Gustav Jung, Sir Herbert Edward Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1977). “The Collected Works: The symbolic life. Miscellaneous writings”

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• We don't so much solve our problems as we outgrow them. We add capacities and experiences that eventually make us bigger than the problems.

  Carl Jung

  Add, Problem, Capacity

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• Everyone you meet knows something you don't know but need to know. Learn from them.

  Carl Jung

  Needs, Knows

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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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• To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem.

  Carl Jung

  Half, Problem, Solutions

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.23, Princeton University Press

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• Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Wise, Dream

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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• The brighter the light, the darker the shadow.

  Carl Jung

  Light, Shadow, Brighter

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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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• People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. They will practice Indian yoga and all its exercises, observe a strict regimen of diet, learn the literature of the whole world - all because they cannot get on with themselves and have not the slightest faith that anything useful could ever come out of their own souls.

  Carl Jung

  Yoga, Exercise, Order

  "Psychology and Alchemy". Book by Carl Jung. CW 12, par. 126, p. 99, 1952.

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