Carl Jung Quotes

Facing difficulties is inevitable. Learning from them is optional.

Without difficulties, life would be like a stream without rocks and curves – about as interesting as concrete. Without problems, there can be no personal growth, no group achievement, no progress of humanity. But what mattes about problems is what one does with them.

We're all brought up in a world that isn't the best place for us to be in once in a while. There are so many problems and we try to overcome them all.

You only mature when you face problems you can't deal with.

It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.

For me, I try to see difficulties as a way of expanding and growing as a person inhabiting this planet.

A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities

I have health challenges, I have life challenges, just like everyone else.

You have to go through a lot of trials and tribulations as a player to be able to grow and learn from 'em and to become better.

We don't grow as human beings from good things happening. We grow from failures.

We learn so much from difficulties.

Be grateful for challenges because... Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then [each woman and] man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilisation and mental culture.

A life without problems would be a barren existence, without the opportunity for spiritual growth.

We have to go through certain things in order to appreciate life and learn lessons.

I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my life-style

Every challenge is nothing more than a chance to make things better.

I don't have any problems in life, just situations.

A lot of things we're supposed to do are hard to do, but we can do them. They're always beneficial. Really, some things that are hard are beneficial.

Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.

There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.

It has pleased and interested me to see how I could get along under difficult circumstances and with so much discomfort but as I say I was not sent out here to improve my temper or my health or to make me more content with my good things in the East.

Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick.

It takes obstacles to learn, grow, be better.

To me, you go through things like that and you learn from it. You add it on to your life, to try to make your life better. Instead of dogging people, learn something from it. And keep stepping.

I know those challenges that come up from time to time in life are our little learning tools, our little steppingstones. If we didn't have those things in our life, how would we learn anything? We would just be walking around like nothing. We need those obstacles in our life because I know one thing - I'm a much better person for them.