Maaike Kooijman Psyche 16 mei 2019, 06:00

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De 20 mooiste quotes van Carl Jung

In de Bedrock-serie ‘De mooiste quotes van…’ delen we regelmatig inspirerende citaten van wijze mensen, van invloedrijke filosofen tot feministen en auteurs. Misschien komt de naam Carl Jung je niet superbekend voor, maar de psychiater en psycholoog uit Zwitserland was de grondlegger van veel concepten die wij nog dagelijks gebruiken.

Zo werkte hij vier basistypen van de menselijke persoonlijkheid uit, die nog steeds worden gebruikt in de Myers-Briggs-persoonlijkheidstest. Hij hield zich ook veel bezig met het ‘collectief onbewuste’ en met heelwording, worden wie je echt bent inclusief je donkere kanten. Dat zijn misschien geen dingen waar je dagelijks bij stilstaat, maar ze kunnen veel inzicht geven in je persoonlijke ontwikkeling.

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Dit zijn 20 goede quotes van Carl Jung!

De 20 mooiste quotes van Carl Jung

1. “The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.”
2. “The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.”
3. “Knowledge rests not upon trust alone, but upon error also.”
4. “The word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.”
5. “Find out what a person fears most and that is where he will develop next.”
6. “Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.”
7. “It al depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.”
8. “Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself.”
9. “Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking.”
10. “Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.”
11. “If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.”
12. “The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.”
13. “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
14. “Shame is a soul eating emotion.”
15. “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
16. “Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
17. “What you resist, persists.”
18. “There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.”
19. “The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories.”
20. “I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”

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