"The most terrifying thing is to accept..." - Quote by Carl Jung
The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.
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“The highest, most decisive experience is to be alone with one's own self. You must be alone to find out what supports you, when you find that you can not support yourself. Only this experience can give you an indestructible foundation.”
“To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real.”
“Intuition does not denote something contrary to reason, but something outside of the province of reason.”
More on Self Acceptance
“People can try to reinvent themselves. I don't think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you've done up to now.”
“Number of things happen after I was 50. One, you are hopefully secure in what you want to do - which means that you don't spend a lot of time chewing on your knuckles about your reason for being here.Also, you're at your most beautiful. No woman is ever more beautiful than she is at 50.”
“It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.”
More on Courage
“Death doesn't frighten me.”
“You can't run a without taking risks.”
“If a human being dreams a great dream, dares to love somebody; if a human being dares to be Martin King, or Mahatma Gandhi, or Mother Theresa, or Malcolm X; if a human being dares to be bigger than the condition into which she or he was born-it means so can you. And so you can try to stretch, stretch, stretch yourself so you can internalize, 'Homo sum, humani nil a me alienum puto. I am a human being, nothing human can be alien to me.' That's one thing I'm learning.”