"If there is a fear of falling,..." - Quote by Carl Jung
If there is a fear of falling, the only safety consists in deliberately jumping.
More by Carl Jung
“The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites.”
“The most dangerous things in the world are immense accumulations of human beings who are manipulated by only a few heads.”
“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.”
More on Fear
“Far better is it for you to go through one small thing that frightens you than to make a thousand plans for an imagined fearless day to come.”
“Men are less hesitant about harming someone who makes himself loved than one who makes himself feared because love is held together by a chain of obligation which, since men are wretched creatures, is broken on every occasion in which their own interests are concerned; but fear is sustained by dread of punishment which will never abandon you.”
“One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death.”
More on Action
“Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.”
“The American people want their government to act, and not merely to talk, whenever and wherever there is a threat to world peace.”
“You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the object of its displeasure. So use that anger. You write it. You paint it. You dance it. You march it. You vote it. You do everything about it. You talk it. Never stop talking it.”