 I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life. They seek position, marriage, reputation, outward success of money, and remain unhappy and neurotic even when they have attained what they were seeking. Such people are usually confined within too narrow a spiritual horizon. Their life has not sufficient content, sufficient meaning. If they are enabled to develop into more spacious personalities, the neurosis generally disappears.
– Carl Jung (1875-1961) |
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Tag Archives: personality
Jim Rohn – The challenge of leadership
Jim Rohn – You are the average of. . .
 You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.
– Jim Rohn (1930-2009) |
Susan Cain – Whoever you are, bear in mind that appearance is not reality
 Whoever you are, bear in mind that appearance is not reality. Some people act like extroverts, but the effort costs them energy, authenticity, and even physical health. Others seem aloof or self-contained, but their inner landscapes are rich and full of drama.
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Carl Jung – Anything we wish to change in a child
| If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
– Carl Jung (1875-1961) |
William Hazlitt – The way to make ourselves agreeable to others
 The best way to make ourselves agreeable to others is by seeming to think them so. If we appear fully sensible of their good qualities they will not complain of the want of them in us.
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Carl Jung – The best work
| The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.
– Carl Jung (1875-1961) |
Carl Jung – The shoe that fits one person
| The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
– Carl Jung (1875-1961) |
Gordon B. Hinckley – Being courteous and deferential
| Something happens inside of us when we are courteous and deferential toward others. It is all part of a refining process, which if persisted in, will change our very natures. |
Carl Jung – Knowing your own darkness
| Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
– Carl Jung (1875-1961) |
Carl Jung – The meeting of two personalities
| The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
– Carl Jung (1875-1961) |
