About Carl Jung

Swiss psychiatrist who founded analytical psychology. (1875-1961)

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More from Carl Jung

• 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)
• 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.The Integration of the Personality (1939)
• 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)

More quotes on failure and resilience

• Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.J.K. Rowling
• It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case, you fail by default.J.K. Rowling
• The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.Paulo Coelho
• In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.Robert Frost
• The best way out is always through.Robert Frost
• Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all.Emily Dickinson

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