Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome.

Carl Jung · The source reads: “Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome. The part that appears above ground lasts only a single summer.… What we see is the blossom, which passes. The rhizome remains.” · Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1963), prologue

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung · On what happens between doctor and patient, and between any two people who truly meet.

Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced, and today we think this more than ever and are just as wrong as all previous ages that thought so.

Carl Jung · Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle (1960)

The dream is the theater where the dreamer is at once scene, actor, prompter, stage manager, author, audience, and critic.

Carl Jung · The source reads: “This whole creation is essentially subjective, and the dream is the theater where the dreamer is at once scene, actor, prompter, stage manager, author, audience, and critic.” · General Aspects of Dream Psychology (1916)

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

Will Rogers

We shouldn't just say, "Let me be miserable now, and later I'll be happy." You've got to learn to find the joy all the way through.

Michael Strahan · The source reads: “I was always told "Work hard when you're young so you can enjoy it when you're older." We should really be enjoying it all the way through. We shouldn't just say, "Well, let me be miserable now, and later then I'll be happy." You've got to learn to find the joy all the way.” · The footballer and broadcaster on joy.

He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad. And that was all his patrimony.

Rafael Sabatini

“Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome.”

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”

“Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced, and today we think this more than ever and are just as wrong as all previous ages that thought so.”

“The dream is the theater where the dreamer is at once scene, actor, prompter, stage manager, author, audience, and critic.”

“Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.”

“We shouldn't just say, "Let me be miserable now, and later I'll be happy." You've got to learn to find the joy all the way through.”

“He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad. And that was all his patrimony.”

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