Carl Jung quotes

I'm not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become.
- Carl Jung

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the currents of life, is without trouble.
- Carl Jung

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.
- Carl Jung

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.
- Carl Jung

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

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
- Carl Jung

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

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

Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.
- Carl Jung

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.
- Carl Jung

There’s no coming to consciousness without pain.
- Carl Jung

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness of other people.
- Carl Jung

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

No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.
- Carl Jung

We cannot change anything unless we accept it.
- Carl Jung

The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents.
- Carl Jung

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

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

A dream that is not understood remains a mere occurrence; understanding it becomes a living experience.
- Carl Jung

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

The whole point of Jesus's life was not that we should become exactly like him, but that we should become ourselves in the same way he became himself. Jesus was not the great exception but the great example.
- Carl Jung