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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity. ↗

— Carl Jung

#along #balanced #better #cannot #come

The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition. ↗

— Carl Jung

#carry #danger #everyone #everything #evil

There is no coming to consciousness without pain. ↗

— Carl Jung

#consciousness #pain #without

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it. ↗

— Carl Jung

#least #life #meaning #more #than

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them. ↗

— Carl Jung

#being #deem #experience #happy #ills

In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am. ↗

— Carl Jung

#case #climb #consisted #could #down

When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate. ↗

— Carl Jung

#conscious #fate #inner #made #outside

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble. ↗

— Carl Jung

#among #chaotic #currents #life #long

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable. ↗

— Carl Jung

#come #creative #creative work #debt #ever

I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life. ↗

— Carl Jung

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