Carl Jung Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

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

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

• Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

  Carl Jung

  Life, Leadership, Thoughtful

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

• The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

  Carl Jung

  Life, Thoughtful, Shoes

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.62, Psychology Press

• We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.

  Carl Jung

  Life, Positive, Law Of Attraction

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, R. F.C. Hull (1954). “The practice of psychotherapy”, Bollingen

• 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

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Memories, Dreams, Reflections ch. 11 (1962)

• Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Life, Children

• The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

  Carl Jung

  Life, Acceptance, Important

• Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.

  Carl Jung

  Life, Wisdom, Thinking

  Ernest Jones, Carl Gustav Jung, James Hillman (1995). “Salt and the alchemical soul: three essays”, Spring Pubns

• The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

  Carl Jung

  Life, Thoughtful, Heartache

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.67, Psychology Press

• Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

  Carl Jung

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  šber die Psychologie des Unbewussten (On the Psychology of the Unconscious, 1917) in Gesammelte Werke (1964) vol. 7, p. 58

• The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility, deprives him of his wholeness and imposes a painful fragmentariness on his life.

  Carl Jung

  Life, Failure, Responsibility

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

• It 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 Jung

  Life, Men, Tragedy

  Carl Gustav Jung (1959). “pt. 1. The archetypes and the collective unconscious”

• An old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as the young man who is unable to embrace it.

  Carl Jung

  Life, Farewell, Men

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.114, Psychology Press

• Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

  Carl Jung

  Life, Loving Life, Follow Your Heart

• As any change must begin somewhere, it is the single individual who will experience it and carry it through. The change must indeed begin with an individual; it might be any one of us. Nobody can afford to look round and to wait for somebody else to do what he is loath to do himself.

  Carl Jung

  Life, Change, Waiting

• We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

• The man who speaks with primordial images, speaks with a thousand tongues.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Life, Men

• Moreover, my ancestors' souls are sustained by the atmosphere of the house, since I answer for them the questions that their lives once left behind. I carve out rough answers as best I can. I have even drawn them on the walls. It is as if a silent, greater family, stretching down the centuries, were peopling the house.

  Carl Jung

  Life, Wall, House

  Carl Gustav Jung, Meredith Sabini (2002). “The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung”, p.36, North Atlantic Books

• Wo die Liebe herrscht, da gibt es keinen machtwillen, und wo die macht den vorrang hat, da fehlt die Liebe. Das eine ist der Schatten des andern.
  Translation: Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

  Carl Jung

  Life, Love Is, Shadow

  šber die Psychologie des Unbewussten (On the Psychology of the Unconscious, 1917) in Gesammelte Werke (1964) vol. 7, p. 58

• Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Carl Gustav Jung (1969). “Psychology and religion: west and east”

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