I remember a medicine man in Africa who said to me almost with tears in his eyes: "We have no dreams anymore since the British are in the country." When I asked him why, he answered, "The District Commissioner knows everything."

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About Carl Jung

Portrait of Carl Jung

Carl Gustav Jung ( YUUNG; Swiss Standard German: [ˈkarl ˈjʊŋ]; 26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and psychologist who founded the school of analytical psychology. He was a prolific author of over twenty books, illustrator, correspondent, and academic, best known for his concept of...

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Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

Science . . . is part and parcel of our knowledge and obscures our insight only when it holds that the understanding given by it is the only kind there is.

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Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed.

—Langston Hughes

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Nothing happens unless first we dream.

—Carl Sandburg

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It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

—Arnold Toynbee

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

—Henry David Thoreau

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Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.

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