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"The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are."
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"To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other."

"People cannot turn you into a foot mat if you clearly know your true self-worth."

"There is no denial that the lack of self-love conditions many to feel unimportant or irrelevant."

"We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better."

"I was born anew, owner of my own darkness."

"Do no look for that ideal person to be with, be that ideal person."

"You have everything inside you, though you sometimes only recognise certain bits relating to the current stage of your path."

"Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity."
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"I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud. -Psychiatrist Dr. Carl Jung in a 1919 address to the Society for Psychical Research in England."

"One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular."

"But no matter how much parents and grandparents may have sinned against the child, the man who is really adult will accept these sins as his own condition which has to be reckoned with. Only a fool is interested in other people's guilt, since he cannot alter it. The wise man learns only from his own guilt. He will ask himself: Who am I that all this should happen to me? To find the answer to this fateful question he will look into his own heart."

"About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives. This can be defined as the general neurosis of our times."

"I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life."

"There is a desert on the moon where the dreamer sinks so deeply into the ground that she reaches hell."
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