JUNG

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose it s meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Every individual alone has to win his battle, nobody else can do it for him.

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own, i.e. that true expression of your individuality.

God is a circle whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.

How can I be substantial without casting a shadow? I must have a dark side too if I am to be whole; and by becoming conscious of my shadow I remember once more that I am a human being like any other.

I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.

If there is anything 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.

Individuation does not isolate, it connects. I never saw relationships thriving on unconsciousness.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

Not perfection, but completeness is what is expected of you.

One must be utterly abandoned to God; nothing else matters but fulfilling His will. Otherwise all is folly and meaningless.

One must be what one is.

The meaning and purpose of a problem seem to lie not in its solutions but in our working at it incessantly.

The path to wholeness is made up of fateful detours and wrongturnings.

To understand is my one great passion. But I also possess the physician's instinct. I would like to help people.

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