Quotes by Carl Jung

“Be grateful for your difficulties and challenges, for they hold blessings. In fact... Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health personal growth, individuation and self-actualisation.”

“The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.”

“You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.”

“I cannot prove to you that God exists, but my work has proved empirically that the pattern of God exists in every man and that this pattern in the individual has at its disposal the greatest transforming energies of which life is capable. Find this pattern in your own individual self and life is transformed.”

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

“We don't so much solve our problems as we outgrow them. We add capacities and experiences that eventually make us bigger than the problems.”

“To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.”

“A man likes to believe that he is the master of his soul. But as long as he is unable to control his moods and emotions, or to be conscious of the myriad secret ways in which unconscious factors insinuate themselves into his arrangements and decisions, he is certainly not his own master.”

“Invited or not, God is present.”

“We don't get wounded alone and we don't heal alone.”

“Embrace your grief. For there, your soul will grow.”

“No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.”