Carl Jung Quotes

Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem most important to you.

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

Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual’s conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. At all counts, it forms an unconscious snag, thwarting our most well-meant intentions.

The creative mind plays with the objects it loves

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

The sad truth is that man’s real life consists of a complex of inexorable opposites—day and night, birth and death, happiness and misery, good and evil. We are not even sure that one will prevail against the other, that good will overcome evil, or joy defeat pain. Life is a battleground. It always has been and always will be; and if it were not so, existence would come to an end.

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

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

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

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.

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

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

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.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

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.