Carl Jung Quotes

I'm on this search trying to figure out exactly who I am and what I have to say to people.

Every character is asking: 'What's my place? Why am I here? I don't want the answer to be 'Just because.' You find your own purpose. Each finds the reason to be here and how to contribute.

I think understanding your life as a story is a really terrific way of kind of knowing where you are and knowing who you are.

I have to live in the truth that this is who I am. That's what I need to focus on.

If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am.

A celebrity life can be very fast-paced, and it can be hard to find meaning in it. I believe that everyone is looking for the answers, but the answers are within ourselves.

I can't tell you what your purpose is, that's got to come from you.

I guess I was just always one of those guys who asked those fundamental questions: 'Who am I? What's this for? Why? What does this mean? Is this real?' All these pretty basic questions. I like making movies about people who are self-conscious in that way, and are trying to feel their way through the world.

My life is real.

It's like, you can know you want to live your life by being yourself, but how do you actually do that? That can be a whole lifelong journey.

Let me tell you a secret: there is no such thing as an uninteresting life One day you must tell me your full and complete story, unabridged and unexpurgated.We will set aside some time for it, and meet. It's very important. Maneck smiled. 'Why is it important?' It's extremely important because it helps to remind yourself of who you are. Then you can go forward, without fear of losing yourself in this ever-changing world.

The most important question to ask is "What am I becoming?"

It is more important to know who you are than where you are going, for where you are going will change as the world around you changes.

The question 'Who am I?' is not an idle one. How you answer the question will determine how you live the rest of your life. It will determine the quality of your life.

I never had time to dream about being anyone else.

I've come to believe that whoever I am didn't start on December 14, 1946, and isn't going to end on whatever that mysterious date is in the future.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

All of us, at some moment, have had a vision of our existence as something unique, untransferable and very precious. This revelation almost always takes place during adolescence.

I'm not interested in nostalgia; I'm interested in who I am.

It seems essential to try to find some meaning to life and I guess Jungian philosophy is the one that's helped me understand myself and the world more than anything else.

I think of myself as being a relatively intelligent man who is open to a lot of different things and I think that questioning our purpose in life and the meaning of existence is something that we all go through at some point.

We breathe, we think, we conceive of our lives as narratives.

I have a lot of success and make a good living, but after while, you start going 'Why? Why are you doing all this?'

A lot of people are simply interested in exploring their own spirituality, their own values, who they are, whether they're happy where they are.

The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life.