Carl Jung Quotes

My liveliest interest is not so much in things, as in relations of things. I have spent much time thinking about the alleged pseudo-relations that are called coincidences. What if some of them should not be coincidences?

Synchronicity: A meaningful coincidence of two or more events where something other than the probability of chance is involved.

Is it possible that there are no coincidences?

It was Jung who first said to explain the symbol as if talking to a man from mars who knew nothing about our life on earth.

I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples' stories.

I've never been interested in philosophy, but some of Jung's ideas seem useful in helping people understand pictures and so forth.

I don't think there is any kind of magic about what I do. All of the connections are there, somewhere in the subconscious or in the collective unconscious. If I let the elements speak to each other, then these coincidences will happen. And they do happen. They happen all the time.

For better or for worse, my brother and I both have some Jungian leanings, so we're tempted to think that these bits and bobs of the past are knocking around in everyone's heads somehow to some degree, and they just need to be jiggled into the front of their head in the mind again.

Have you ever noticed that when you pray, coincidences happen? And when you don't, they don't.

Synchronicity is an ever present reality for those who have eyes to see.

The great part about tennis is you can't run out the clock.... As long as we were still playing, I had a chance.

He'd done as he'd pleased and even had often enjoyed long runs of luck where he hadn't been caught. But the luckiest moment of his life had been being caught.

There is no coincidence. Only the illusion of coincidence.

Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck. A meaning behind every little thing, and such a meaning behind this. Part for you, part for me, may not see it all real clear right now, but we will, before long.

This is called synchronicity - a state in which you almost feel as if you are in a collaborative arrangement with fate.

I always say there are no coincidences.

What are the odds that two separate writers, strangers, a thousand miles apart, would each invent fictions in which guys take girls to an esoteric frog lecture on their first date? If that isn't synchronicity, it's something equally as weird.

Those who were unlucky in life in spite of their skills would eventually rise. The lucky fool might have benefited from some luck in life; over the longer run he would slowly converge to the state of a less-lucky idiot. Each one would revert to his long-term properties.

In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.

I noticed a long time ago that the Universe rewards belief systems. It doesn't really matter what you believe - it'll be there and waiting for you if you go and look for it. Decide the universe is, say, run by secret enormous teddy bears, and I can guarantee you'll immediately start running across evidence that this is true.

Don't simply dismiss a coincidence and let it drift away. Life is totally interconnected. These unusual 'things' are simply connections that surprise you because you aren't used to seeing life except in fragments. Now it is beginning to piece itself together.

Love is a big and wonderful idea, but life is made up of small things. As a kid, you have nothing to do with the way the world is run; you just have to hurry to catch up with it.

NOTHING happens by coincidence.

My philosophy? Have a laugh for as long as you can and don't get run over. Or stabbed.

Fortune soon tires of carrying anyone long on her shoulders.