We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

The principle aim of psychotherapy is not to transport one to an impossible state of happiness, but to help (the client) acquire steadfastness and patience in the face of suffering.

But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the programme of life's morning — for what was great in the morning will be little at evening, and what in the morning was true will at evening have become a lie.

...The unconscious has no time. There is no trouble about time in the unconscious. Part of our psyche is not in time and not in space. They are only an illusion, time and space, and so in a certain part of our psyche time does not exist at all.

Fidelity to the law of your own being is an act of high courage flung in the face of life.

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.

We don't get wounded alone and we don't heal alone.