Carl Jung Quotes

Always take a good look at your problems as they are going to be with you for a long time.

Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.

We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them.

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

Well, some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and it turns out that they're extremely hard to solve.

Life is a never-ending stream of problems that must be confronted, surmounted, and/or solved.

Everybody's got problems in life. That's the way it is.

Life is going to present you with tons of problems, it's what you do about them that matters.

Many of our troubles are chronic. Life is chronic.

Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.

The meaning and design of a problem seem not to lie in its solution, but in our working at it incessantly.

The greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved, but only outgrown. This 'outgrowing', as I formerly called it, on further experience was seen to consist in a new level of consciousness. Some higher or wider interest arose on the person's horizon, and through this widening of view, the insoluble problem lost its urgency. It was not solved logically in its own terms, but faded out when confronted with a new and stronger life-tendency.

Unsolved problems, that's one of the great signs of progress in my opinion.

Reality check: you can never, ever, use weight loss to solve problems that are not related to your weight. At your goal weight or not, you still have to live with yourself and deal with your problems. You will still have the same husband, the same job, the same kids, and the same life. Losing weight is not a cure for life.

In human affairs every solution serves only to sharpen the problem, to show us more clearly what we are up against. There are no final solutions.

Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.

Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual.

For any serious purpose, intelligence is a very minor gift.

There are more serious problems in life than financial ones, and I’ve had a lot of those. I’ve been broke before, and will be again.

If only you could see the whole picture, if you knew the whole story, you would realize that no problem ever comes to you that does not have a purpose in your life, that cannot contribute to your inner growth.

As God is exalted to the right place in our lives, a thousand problems are solved all at once.

This is what I believe: That we are not pushed from behind by the casual unfolding of historical necessity, but that we are in the grip of an attractor of some sort, which lies ahead of us in time.

These problems are real, and you can't turn off real life. So I won't try. Instead, I'll give you a set of tools to help you deal with real life.

Comedy is a serious business. A serious business with only one purpose--to make people laugh.

Mathematics is not yet ready for such problems.