If you’re not familiar with Carl Gustav Jung, hopefully these 10 quotes will inspire you to get to know him. Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology. Among his many brilliant thoughts, he is responsible for proposing and developing the concepts of extroversion and introversion, archetypes, and the collective unconscious. He was a prolific writer, with many of his works being published after his death in 1961.
In no particular order, here are my 10 favorite C.G. Jung quotes.
1. When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.
2. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
3. There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
4. The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
5. It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.
6. The word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
7. A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
8. I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become.
9. The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.
10. Don’t hold onto someone who’s leaving, otherwise you won’t meet the one who’s coming.