Carl Jung Quotes

Our deepest calling is to grow into our own authentic self-hood, whether or not it conforms to some image of who we ought to be. As we do so, we will not only find the joy that every human being seeks--we will also find our path of authentic service in the world.

Shri Krishna says: "Better die in your own path than attempt the path of another."

Each one of us must make his own true way, and when we do, that way will express the universal way.

You don't have to make your life look like anybody else says it should look.

Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone.

It is not humility to insist on being someone that you are not. It is as much as saying that you know better than God who you are and who you ought to be. How do you expect to arrive at the end of your own journey if you take the road to another man's city? How do you expect to reach your own perfection by leading somebody else's life? His sanctity will never be yours; you must have the humility to work out your own salvation in a darkness where you are absolutely alone.

Our work is to make ourselves visible in the world. This is the soul's individual journey, and the soul would much rather fail at its own life than succeed at someone else's.

A man must walk only his own path...Never another's or his feet will grow tired and sore. And he will feel lost even when he arrives.

What is unknown is the fulfillment of your own unique life, the likes of which has never existed on earth. And you are the only one who can do it. People can give you clues how to fall and when to stand, and when you are falling and when you are standing, this only you can know. And in the way of your own talents is the only way to do it.

I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.

Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone's idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path.

It's the only way that YOUR life is gonna have any value to you. If you're just living the same life that everybody else is living what's the point?

What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.

Everyone's journey is completely different.

The only theatre I do is my own. Somehow, my life is the only life that I can play.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.

You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost.

I've always felt quite singular, even as a child. That I must stay on track to keep my purpose.

I just do my thing, what I feel.

I think that's one of the things that's missing in a lot of people's lives. That's finding out what works for you and doing that.

If I'm the biggest artist in the world, cool, but I want to just be me.

I don't think I constantly have to be on a promotional spree or be seen in the newspapers every day or even be part of social parties and film gangs. I'm having my own set of journey, and I am happy with it because I don't want to be like everybody.

For all the oddballs and misfits out there, eventually, if you just follow your path, you will reach somewhere no one else has. You are uniquely meant to do something that only you can do.

What I always say is, 'To each his own.' Everybody has a different trajectory or path in life.