Carl Jung Quotes

You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?

You will follow me, if we are what we are, you and I, if we live, if the world exists, if you know the meaning of this moment and can't let it slip by, as others let it slip, into the senselessness of the unwilled and unreached.

Calling is a 'yes' to God that carries a 'no' to the chaos of modern demands. Calling is the key to tracing the story line of our lives and unriddling the meaning of our existence in a chaotic world.

You are here for a reason.

Life isn't life if you just float through it.

The struggle for existence is a struggle 'for' something; it is purposeful and only in so being is it meaningful and able to bring meaning into life.

Just breathing isn't living!

We start dying when we have nothing worth living for. And we don't really start living until we find something worth dying for

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple.

You weren’t created to simply exist, to endure, or to go through the motions; you were created to be really alive.

The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.

If you have not discovered something you are willing to die for, then you are not fit to live.

A good life is a main argument.

We're all called. If you're here breathing, you have a contribution to make.

Man cannot stand a meaningless life.

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived.

The meaning of my life is to help others find meaning in theirs.

My research offers impressive evidence that we feel better when we attempt to make our world better...to have a purpose beyond one's self lends to existence a meaning and direction - the most important characteristic of high well-being.

The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.

Life without dreaming is a life without meaning.

Every one on this earth should believe, amid whatever madness or moral failure, that his life and temperament have some object on the earth. Every one on the earth should believe that he has something to give to the world which cannot otherwise be given.

nothing is so horrifying as the possibility of existing simply because we do not know how to die.

A man isn't really alive till he has something bigger than himself and his own little happiness, for which he'd gladly die.

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

I like to imagine that the world is one big machine. You know, machines never have any extra parts. They have the exact number and type of parts they need. So I figure if the entire world is a big machine, I have to be here for some reason. And that means you have to be here for some reason, too.