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“The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.”

Carl Jung · Happiness

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Carl Jung

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

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Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

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Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

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