We cannot

We cannot change anything until we accept it.

~Carl Jung

There is no

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

~Carl Jung

The word "happiness"

The word “happiness” would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

~Carl Jung

The pendulum

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

~Carl Jung

The least of things

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

~Carl Jung

The debt

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

~Carl Jung

Often the hands

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

~Carl Jung

Knowledge

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

~Carl Jung

Knowing

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

~Carl Jung

It all depends

It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.

~Carl Jung

Great talents

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.

~Carl Jung

A man who has not

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

~Carl Jung

There can be no

There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotions.

~Carl Jung

As far as

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

~Carl Jung

Who has fully realized

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

~Carl Jung

The shoe

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

~Carl Jung

The meeting

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

~Carl Jung

The healthy man

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

~Carl Jung

Nobody

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

~Carl Jung

In all chaos

In all chaos there is a cosmos,
in all disorder a secret order.

~Carl Jung