Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Carl Jung Quotes
AgingPurposeLife StagesSignificance 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.
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.
ResilienceHappinessExperience We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
InstinctsSelf-ReflectionRationality 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.
PurposeEnlightenmentExistence As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
ExampleParentingCharacterEducation Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
MeaningSufferingSelf-discovery A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.
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.
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.
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.
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.
TroubleAdversityLife's Challenges Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
IntellectTruthUnderstandingWisdom We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
DreamSoulGuidanceReflection 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?
IntrospectionSelf-AwarenessVisionAwakening Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
CreativityImagination All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
ResilienceConflict ResolutionGrowthSecurityPersistence 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.
MortalityAcceptancePurposeLife Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
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.
ConsciousnessSelf-AwarenessFateResponsibility When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.
LegacyIdentityTraditionMemory Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
ActionProblem SolvingExperience Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
BeautyDisappointmentTerror A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.
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.
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.
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.
Self-DiscoveryInner ConflictUnconscious 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.
KnowledgeCertaintyHypothesisBeliefUnderstanding 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.
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.
PassionSelf-MasteryOvercomingStruggle A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
Self-DiscoveryJourneyHumilityPersonal GrowthResilience 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.
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.
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.
UnderstandingCopingDarkness Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.
UnderstandingEmpathyPerceptionWisdomCommunication If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
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.
Born at a MomentPlace and SeasonUniqueness of TimingLimitations of Astrology We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.
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.
PerspectiveInsightControlSubjective Reality It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.