1,051 Quotes by Carl Jung

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

Only a few individuals succeed in throwing off mythology in a time of certain intellectual supremacy--the mass never frees itself.

Commendation heals; condemnation destroys.

We understand the ego as the complex factor to which all conscious contents are related. It forms, as it were, the centre of the field of consciousness; and, in so far as this comprises the empirical personality, the ego is the subject of all personal acts of consciousness. The relation of a psychic content to the ego forms the criterion of its consciousness, for no content can be conscious until it is represented to a subject.

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 to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely

The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire.

Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is.

In actual life, it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook upon life.