In all Chaos there is a Cosmos, In all Disorder a secret Order.
- Topic: Life
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More Quotes from Carl Jung
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Each of us carries his own life-form—an indeterminable form which cannot be superseded by any other.
There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
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.
You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.
Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living.
More on Life
Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.
The hardest thing to explain is the glaring evident which everybody had decided not to see.
There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life. . . To seek a total unity is wrong. To give as much meaning to one’s life as possible is right to me.
No garden is without its weeds.
There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.
In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
The only way to live, is knowing you’re going to die. If you're afraid to die, you'll never be able to live.
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.