There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. 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. -Carl Gustav Jung

 

There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. 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.


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This quote is just one of 8 total Carl Gustav Jung quotes in our collection. Carl Gustav Jung is known for saying 'There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. 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.' as well as some of the following quotes.

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Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

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Enlightenment is not imagining figures of light but making the darkness conscious.

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There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. 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. -Carl Gustav Jung
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We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

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