Carl Jung Quotes

The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, person and family history, belief systems, and often nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these is you.

What a person is for himself, what abides with him in his loneliness and isolation, and what no one can give or take away from him, this is obviously more essential for him than everything that he possesses or what he may be in the eyes of others.

I want an identity outside of my work.

I don't really care what other people see me as. I seriously don't. I've always worried about what my opinion of myself is. And I've always thought that it carries most weight. So I don't care what other people's opinion of me is or how they view whatever I've said or done.

It means a lot to everyone around me that I look good, and I don't think it should have to. I just think I should look the way I do.

There is always a human being behind the titles and the status.

Because it's kind of great, being an idea that everybody likes. But I could never be the idea to myself, not all the way.

I believe that a lot of people in our society today, people who have been hurt and even people who haven't been hurt, get their worth and value from what they do, what they look like, what they own, what kind of job they have, what kind of house they live in, how much money they have, what social circles they're in, what level of education they have, especially even how other people respond to them. They feel better about themselves if everybody is giving a smiling nod to the way they look and all their choices.

Are you your clothes? Are you your name? Are you your profession? Stop identifying with them. They come and go

I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me.

Being a personality is not the same thing as having a personality.

We've got ego's like hairdos.

I was going to have to come up with a rank for myself besides Alpha's mate. In the pack, I was just Mercy- but if ten more people called me the Alpha's mate, I was going to hit someone. It sounded like a chess move.

You are unfortunately most of the time defined by your success, when your success is not a major part of your personality.

Actually, who are you not to be?

What am I in most people's eyes? A nonentity or an eccentric and disagreeable man... I should want my work to show what is in the heart of such an eccentric, of such a nobody.

What's important is not the uniform or the number, and it's not what team you play for or whether anyone else sees your value; it's who you are on the inside. And when you're in Christ, that's never going to change.

Be sure you separate 'who you are' from 'what you have' and 'what you do'.

Personality is and does something...It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual

Today - and it's happening very rapidly - money, wealth, position, birth are of no importance at all. The thing that is important is the individual you are.

The only truth is that I live. Sincerely, I live. Who am I? Well, that's a bit much.

You are not defined by an Instagram photo, by a 'Like,' by a comment. That does not define you.

... not being liked has a certain virtue about it, if the reason for the dislike does not lie in yourself!

Since [Rousseau's] time, and largely thanks to him, the Ego has steadily tended to efface itself, and, for purposes of model, to become a manikin on which the toilet of education is to be draped in order to show the fit or misfit of the clothes. The object of study is the garment, not the figure.

The ego tends to equate having with Being: I have, therefore I am. And the more I have, the more I am. The ego lives through comparison. How you are seen by others turns into how you see yourself.