Carl Jung Quotes

I've grown up a lot, I'm on my own, and I've learned some valuable life lessons.

As you grow and mature, you will want and will earn more freedom to live your lives your way and to make your own choices. This you should do.

It's nice to finally be my own person.

My 20s were gone, my 30s were recovery, my 40s is where I am self-sufficient.

Coming to the Waratahs was the first time I felt I gained some independence. I was telling my parents I had to go out on my own, and learn and grow, and if I made mistakes, then so be it.

Through laziness and cowardice a large part of mankind, even after nature has freed them from alien guidance, gladly remain immature. It is because of laziness and cowardice that it is so easy for others to usurp the role of guardians. It is so comfortable to be a minor!

I'd always thought I would feel like an animal released from its cage when my student days were finished, I felt more like a bird that had been pushed from its nest and told it must fly.

Courage is the capacity to meet the anxiety which arises as one achieves freedom. It is the willingness to differentiate, to move from the protecting realms of parental dependence to new levels of freedom and integration.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

You have to live through things. You can't have other people telling you to do that and do this. It's important to live through things.

I think it is important to let your kids have independence and ownership. Let your kids do what they have a passion for.

When you grow up your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that.

The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.

I'm responsible for what I am and what I want to be. I'm not trying to live by another's standards.

I'm going to be true to what I want to do, because if I care what people think about me, I'm a puppet. Which I have been in my life. And you can't live life that way, man!

You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself.

A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.

I think one of the defining moments of adulthood is the realization that nobody's going to take care of you. That you have to do the heavy lifting while you're here. And when you don't, well, you suffer the consequences.

Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence.

I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.

Our aim is to help the clients help themselves, not to tell them what to think.

Grow up and let anyone try to contend with the adult you.