Famous Quotes

"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."

Carl Jung on Patience

More quotes about Patience

• "Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come."

  Robert H. Schuller on Patience

• "Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success."

  Napoleon Hill on Patience

• "We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world."

  Helen Keller on Patience

• "How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?"

  William Shakespeare on Patience

• "Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures."

  Joseph Addison on Patience

More quotes by Carl Jung

• "Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also."

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

• "If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves."

• "We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses."

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