Carl Jung quotes

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. (Carl Jung)
Thinking is difficult, that's why most people judge.
Carl Jung
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Carl Jung
You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.
Carl Jung
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Carl Jung
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
Carl Jung
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Carl Jung
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
Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
Carl Jung
Your vision will be clearer only when you manage to see within your heart.
Carl Jung
There is no birth of consciousness without pain. (Carl Jung)
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
Carl Jung
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
Carl Jung
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
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
Carl Jung
If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
Carl Jung
Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
Carl Jung
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
Carl Jung
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
Carl Jung
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.
Carl Jung
In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order. (Carl Jung)
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
Carl Jung
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
Carl Jung
It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.
Carl Jung
Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.
Carl Jung