Carl Jung

The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely.

There's no coming to consciousness without pain.

We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.

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 to take things as they come along, with patience and equanimity.

Everything depends on how we look at things, and not on how they are in themselves.

The greatest tragedy of the average man is that he is unconscious of his own tragedy.

The dream is a little hidden door in the innermost and most secret recesses of the soul, opening into that cosmic night which was psyche long before there was any ego-consciousness, and which will remain psyche no matter how much our ego-consciousness may extend.

You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.

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

Without the experience of the opposites, there is no experience of the totality.

The acceptance of oneself is the essence of the whole moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook on life.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only half of the truth, and must, if it is to be complete, be complemented by an aesthetic, by a moral, and by a religious or metaphysical point of view.

The self is not only the center but also the whole circumference which embraces both conscious and unconscious; it is the center of this totality, just as the ego is the center of consciousness.

The greatest danger for all of us is to lose our own souls.

To be normal is the ideal aim for the unsuccessful, for all those who are still below the general level of adaptation. But for people who have a greater potential, the ideal aim is to be fully themselves.

Life calls us to change, and it is a painful process.

The inner voice is the authentic voice of the self.

A dream that is not understood remains a mere occurrence; understood, it becomes a living experience.

There are no accidents, only encounters in the soul.