Carl Jung

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

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.

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

In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

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.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

The word 'belief' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it I don't need to believe it.

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.

Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?

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

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

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

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.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.