Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Carl Jung Quotes
PassionSelf-MasteryOvercomingStruggle A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
BeautyDisappointmentTerror A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.
TalentHumanityBalancePerspective Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
EducationEmpathyNurturing One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
MistakeLearningKnowledgeTruthUnderstanding Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
PurposeEnlightenmentExistence As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
MeaningSufferingSelf-discovery A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.
ConsciousnessDevelopmentMind In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a 'continent,' a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness.
ConsciousnessSelf-AwarenessFateResponsibility When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.
IntellectTruthUnderstandingWisdom We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
ConsciousnessUnconsciousSelf-awarenessIntrospection Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.
Self-AwarenessLife StagesResponsibility For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.
LovePower 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.
CreativityImagination All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
TalentVulnerabilityFragility 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.
Human NatureHistoryIdentity Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.
Self-ReflectionPersonal GrowthResponsibilityParenting 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.
MortalityAcceptancePurposeLife Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
IndividualityUniquenessPersonalizationPerspective The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
PsychologySymbolismSelf The Christ-symbol is of the greatest importance for psychology in so far as it is perhaps the most highly developed and differentiated symbol of the self, apart from the figure of the Buddha.
IntegrityPromiseDeceptionConsequence The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.
ProblemGrowthPerspective The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
ActionProblem SolvingExperience Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
MeaningValuePurpose The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
FantasyImaginationCreativity Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.
ExampleParentingCharacterEducation Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
IntrospectionSelf-AwarenessVisionAwakening Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Collective UnconsciousInstinctsArchetypes The collective unconscious consists of the sum of the instincts and their correlates, the archetypes. Just as everybody possesses instincts, so he also possesses a stock of archetypal images.
MindThoughtRationalityPerception The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
HappinessSadnessBalancePatienceEquanimity 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.
AlchemyMedieval PhilosophyGnosticismPsychology of the UnconsciousBridge Between Eras Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious.
DeceptionConscienceInner TruthSelf-AwarenessInsight Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.
SpiritualityMissionsInner StatesMaterialismConscience The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.
PerspectiveInsightControlSubjective Reality It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.
BalanceOppositesMeaningEmotion The word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
SpiritualityMid-Life StrugglesExistential ThemesHuman ConditionPersonal Growth I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.
AddictionIdealismConsequenceControlDangers Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
Individual DifferencesBalanceFluidityIntegrationSocial Critique There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.
Collective ConsciousnessInherited PsychePersonal vs. CollectiveUnconscious MindUniversal Structure We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society.
AcceptanceJudgment We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
LegacyIdentityTraditionMemory Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
ResistanceIndividualityMassOrganization Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.