If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
CJ
Carl JungThe Integration of the Personality (1939)
About Carl Jung
Swiss psychiatrist who founded analytical psychology. (1875-1961)
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- The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933)
- The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933)
- The meaning and design of a problem seem not to lie in its solution, but in our working at it incessantly.Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933)
- The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933)
- As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1963)
- Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1963)
More quotes on change
- One withstands the invasion of armies; one does not withstand the invasion of ideas.Victor Hugo
- In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.Robert Frost
- We turn not older with years, but newer every day.Emily Dickinson
- Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.George Bernard Shaw
- The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.George Bernard Shaw
- Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.Victor Hugo
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