Carl Jung

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.

We cannot change anything until we accept it.

Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any
reaction, both are transformed

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

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

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

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

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life, and you will call it fate

In each of us there is another whom we do not know

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life, and you will call it fate

In each of us there is another whom we do not know

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and
letting go of it.

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

Looking outwards has got to be turned into looking into oneself. Discovering yourself provides
you with all you are, were meant to be, and all you are living from and for

A dream that is not understood remains a mere occurrence; understood it becomes a living
experience
There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness
conscious

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely

I don’t aspire to be a good man. I aspire to be a whole man.

Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one’s being, but by integration of the
contraries

“Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to
communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which
others find inadmissible.

We cannot change anything unless we accept it.

I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and
wrong

The capacity for directed thinking I call intellect; the capacity for passive or undirected thinking I
call intellectual intuition

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

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

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

It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how things are in themselves.

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

For better to come, good must stand aside

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity.
They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism

Taken in its deepest sense, the shadow is the invisible saurian tail that man still drags behind
him. Carefully amputated, it becomes the healing serpent of the mysteries