Everything good is costly and the development of the personality is one of the most costly of all things. It will cost you your innocence, your illusions, your certainty.
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls.
- Topic: Solitude
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More Quotes from Carl Jung
The great decisions of human life have as a rule far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness.
Much of the evil in the world is due to the fact that man in general is hopelessly unconscious.
The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.
If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely.
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you do or as fast. There is a time when you didn't know what you know today.
The clearest way in the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
I have arrived. I am home in the here, in the now. I am solid. I am free. In the ultimate I dwell.
