Carl Jung Quotes

Politically, you can’t do pain without the gain.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

Obviously, we all want to feel pleasure. It can't be one of our highest priorities because, simply put, anything worthwhile in life is going to be un-pleasurable at times. Pleasure is the type of thing that if you get the other stuff right, pleasure will happen on its own.

Sometimes it felt as if all happiness came at a price. You could never, ever, have perfection. Life gave you beauty so you could bear the pain.

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.

Happiness is just how you feel when you don't feel miserable.

To render ourselves insensible to pain we must forfeit also the possibilities of happiness.

There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.

Happiness is an equivalent for all troublesome things.

And what is happiness, Nathan? In my experience, it's only a moment's pause here and there on what is otherwise a long and difficult road. No one can be happy all the time.

Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering.

What doesn't hurt - is not life; what doesn't pass - is not happiness.

When success comes in the door, it seems, love often goes out the window.

The best happiness will be to escape the worst misery.

Sometimes happiness consists of finding the right balance of misery.

Living, there is no happiness in that. Living: carrying one’s painful self through the world. But being, being is happiness. Being: Becoming a fountain, a fountain on which the universe falls like warm rain.

We must feel the pain before the pleasure, only then can we tell them apart.

That man is never happy for the present is so true, that all his relief from unhappiness is only forgetting himself for a little while. Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction. Yet true happiness comes from a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved through the cultivation of altruism, of love and compassion and elimination of ignorance, selfishness and greed.

So few the grains of happiness measured against all the dark and still the scales balance.

For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.

That's what every uncomfortable feeling is for-that's what pain is for, what money is for, what everything in the world is for: your self-realization.

And if there's love, you can do without happiness too. Even with sorrow, life is sweet.

It's nice to be happy. But the meaning of life is meaning - what's the impact you're having on the world. Suffering to accomplish that is a perfectly fine thing.

Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.