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" The word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. "

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" We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. "

" 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. "

" Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism. "

" Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge. "

" A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment. "

" Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness. "

" Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. "

" When you feel sad, it's okay. It's not the end of the world. Everyone has those days when you doubt yourself, and when you feel like everything you do sucks, but then there's those days when you feel like Superman. It's just the balance of the world. I just write to feel better. "

" The Christ-symbol is of the greatest importance for psychology in so far as it is perhaps the most highly developed and differentiated symbol of the self, apart from the figure of the Buddha. "

" Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain. "

" As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. "

" The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. "

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

" There is no coming to consciousness without pain. "

" Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. "

" Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. "

" Red is the ultimate cure for sadness. "

" Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious. "

" The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. "

" Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy. "

" We are in a far better position to observe instincts in animals or in primitives than in ourselves. This is due to the fact that we have grown accustomed to scrutinizing our own actions and to seeking rational explanations for them. "

" Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. "

" For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself. "

" Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not. "

" Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics. "

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

" The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown. "

" We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society. "

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