Carl Jung Quotes

You'd never be able to appreciate what's good in life if you've never experienced the bad.

Even a stunted tree reaches for sunlight.

Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, As without light, nothing flowers.

The descent into the depths always seems to precede the ascent.

This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!

Its when the sun shines the brightest that our shadows appear the biggest

We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeketh to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthward, downward, into the dark and deep — into the evil.

An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.

Without losers, where would the winners be?

Every Luke Skywalker needs his Darth Vader.

Listen, the obvious thing to remember is without dark, there is no light, and without light, there is no dark.

You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.

We all want Canaan without going through the wilderness.

In the scriptures, we are told you can't really understand happiness unless you understand sadness. You don't know pleasure if you don't know pain. It's part of life. So can you learn something from somebody who has gone from success to success to success? I don't think so.

If there were no night, we would not appreciate the day, nor could we see the stars and the vastness of the heavens. We must partake of the bitter with the sweet. There is a divine purpose in the adversities we encounter every day. They prepare, they purge, they purify, and thus they bless.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

The planet is always half light and half dark, and so are we.

You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

I overcame a lot of obstacles in my life and in my childhood.

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

The best way out is always through.

There's no hero without a villain.

You go through stuff, and you keep going.