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Carl Gustav Jung

Quote of Carl Gustav Jung - Even a happy life cannot be...


Biography - Carl Gustav Jung:

Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.
Born: 1875 - Died: 1961
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: Switzerland
Switzerland

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.



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Quotes for: life


Quotes

Quotes about life:


As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.





Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.





A happy life, therefore, is one which is in accordance with its own nature.





There is more to life than increasing its speed.





To live means to love, but above all, to love life.





Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.











Quotes for: patience


Quotes

Quotes for: patience


Patience is the companion of wisdom.





Patience and time do more than strength or passion.





Everything comes in time to those who can wait.





It is always the impatience to win that causes someone to lose.





Patience reveals the soul's hidden riches.





Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience.











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Quotes for: Sadness


Go, nothing is better for the soul
Than to dispel some sadness from a soul!






I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.





Sadness flies away on the wings of time.





A tragedy need not have blood and death it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.





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





Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.







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Carl Gustav Jung also said...


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





Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.





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.





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 afternoon of life is just as full of meaning as the morning; only, its meaning and purpose are different.





Thinking is difficult, that's why most people judge.












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