Carl Jung Quotes About Life
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The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
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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.
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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
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An old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as the young man who is unable to embrace it.
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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.
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As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
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The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
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The man who speaks with primordial images, speaks with a thousand tongues.
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Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
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Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
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Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
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We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.
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Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
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Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.
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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.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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