Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
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Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.Carl Jung
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
Carl Jung
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
Carl Jung
Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
Carl Jung
Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.
Carl Jung
It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.
Carl Jung
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