"The world will ask you who you..." - Quote by Carl Jung
The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.
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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.”
“The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced and contrasted and compared to sadness. In comparing how an experience could have been worse we develop gratitude and happiness, while if we compare it how it could have been better we develop bitterness and sadness.”
“As a plant produces its flower, so the psyche creates its symbols.”
More on Identity
“I am a citizen of the world first, and of this country at a later and more convenient hour.”
“Until we accept and approve of ourselves, no amount of approval from others will keep us permanently secure.”
“If people are eating mostly pickles after many generations, where did that come from? It's reflective of history, often a painful history. It's central to a culture, to a history, to a personal story. It's communication at its most fundamental.”
More on Self Discovery
“There's a part of you that you can get a hold of, and there's a part of you that you can never get a hold of, and those are opposite things. Who are you? Which one are you? You are combinations of opposites.”
“With a little more deliberation in the choice of their pursuits, all men would perhaps become essentially students and observers, for certainly their nature and destiny are interesting to all alike.”
“You never really know yourself until you see yourself under pressure.”