Carl Jung

Neurosis is the natural by-product of pain avoidance.

The self is our life's goal, for it is the completest expression of that fateful combination we call individuality.

The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.

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

The unexpected and the incredible belong in this world. Only then is life whole.

The angel personifies something new arising from the deep unconscious.

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

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.

The great decisions of human life have as a rule far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness. The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Each of us carries his own life-form- an indeterminable form which cannot be superseded by any other.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life.

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.

In every adult there lurks a child— an eternal child, something that is always becoming, is never completed, and calls for unceasing care, attention, and education. That is the part of the personality which wants to develop and become whole.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

In the products of the unconscious we discover mandala symbols, that is, circular and quaternity figures which express wholeness, and whenever we wish to express wholeness, we employ just such figures.

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

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

The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.