Carl Jung

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

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

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

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

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.

We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

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

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

Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.

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

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

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

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.

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

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

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

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.