The psyche is a natural phenomenon. All aspects of the psyche, even those which seem pathological or destructive, actually serve the function of furthering our psychological development.Carl Jung
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.Rainier Maria Rilke
Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us.David Richo
When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.Carl Jung
I have come to believe that by and large the human family all has the same secrets, which are both very telling and very important to tell. They are telling in the sense that they tell what is perhaps the central paradox of our condition — that what we hunger for perhaps more than anything else is to be known in our full humanness, and yet that is often just what we also fear more than anything else. It is important to tell at least from time to time the secret of who we truly and fully are -even if we tell it only to ourselves — because otherwise we run the risk of losing track of who we truly and fully are and little by little come to accept instead the highly edited version which we put forth in hope that the world will find it more acceptable than the real thing.Frederick Buechner
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.Carl Jung
Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.Sigmund Freud
He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.Sherman Alexie
Love is not just a passion spark between two people; there is infinite difference between falling in love and standing in love. Rather, love is a way of being, a "giving to," not a "falling for"; a mode of relating at large, not an act limited to a single person.Irvin D. Yalom
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.Anaïs Nin
We accept the love we think we deserve.Stephen Chbosky
Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength.Attribute to Theodore Roosevelt
The goal for most people should not be to feel better, but to get better at feeling.Shannon L. Alder
In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.Abraham Maslow
I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.Carl Jung
Love is a constant process of tuning in, connecting, missing and misreading cues, disconnecting, repairing, and finding deeper connection. It is a dance of meeting and parting, and finding each other again. Minute to minute and day to day.Sue Johnson
Grief is like the ocean, it comes in waves, ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.Vicki Harrison
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.Carl Rogers
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.Anaïs Nin
It is in the space between inner and outer world, the transitional space, that intimate relationships and creativity occur.D.W. Winnicott