Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Carl Jung Quotes
Inner ConflictSelf-DiscoveryUnconscious Mind Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.
AdversityLife S ChallengesTrouble Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
ConsciousnessFateResponsibilitySelf-awareness When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.
ConscienceInner StatesMaterialismMissionsSpirituality 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.
BalanceFluidityIndividual DifferencesIntegrationSocial Critique There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.
FragilityTalentVulnerability 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.
EnlightenmentExistencePurpose As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
AgingLife StagesPurposeSignificance A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.
CharacterEducationExampleParenting Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
MeaningSelf-DiscoverySuffering A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.
AddictionConsequenceControlDangersIdealism Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
ExperienceHappinessResilience We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
InstinctsRationalitySelf Reflection We are in a far better position to observe instincts in animals or in primitives than in ourselves. This is due to the fact that we have grown accustomed to scrutinizing our own actions and to seeking rational explanations for them.
BalanceHumanityPerspectiveTalent 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.
PsychologySelfSymbolism 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.
Conflict ResolutionGrowthPersistenceResilienceSecurity The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.
BeautyDisappointmentTerror A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.
ConsequenceDeceptionIntegrityPromise 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.
DreamGuidanceReflectionSoul 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?
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.
AcceptanceLifeMortalityPurpose Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
IntellectTruthUnderstandingWisdom We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
AwakeningIntrospectionSelf-awarenessVision Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
IdentityLegacyMemoryTradition Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
KnowledgeLearningMistakeTruthUnderstanding 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.
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.