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.

Carl Jung

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Topic

Raising kids Parents and children Change starts at home Self-improvement Personal growth

Author

Carl Jung

Source

The Development of Personality

Genre

Psychological literature

Language

German

Time

1939 1930s 20th century

Occupation

Psychiatrist Psychologist Writer

From

Switzerland Europe

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Jung, Carl. The Integration of Personality, translated by Stanley Dell. Farrar & Rinehart, 1939.

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Another quote by Carl Jung

Fanaticism is always a sign of repressed doubt.

Carl Jung

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Topic
Fanaticism
Speaker
Carl Jung
Medium
Lecture
Language
English
Time
1935 1930s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Jung, Carl. Lecture five of the Tavistock lectures. 1935, Tavistock Clinic, London, England, UK.

Current Citation

Jung, Carl. The Symbolic Life: Miscellaneous Writings. Routledge, 2014, pt. 1, lecture 5.

Another quote from the 1930s

The very touch of the letter was as if you had taken me all into your arms.

Anaïs Nin

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Topic
Letters

Author

Anaïs Nin
Source
Letters of Anaïs Nin
Medium
Letter
Language
English
Time
1932 1930s 20th century
Authentication Score 1
Citation

Nin, Anaïs and Henry Miller. "August 6, 1932." A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953, edited by Gunther Stuhlmann. Harcourt Brace & Company, 1987.

Another quote about Personal growth

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Elizabeth Appell

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Topic
Facing one's fears Personal growth

Author

Elizabeth Appell
Statement Type
Metaphor, analogy and simile
Language
English
Time
1979 1970s 20th century
Authentication Score 1
Citation

Appell, Elizabeth. “Risk.” John F Kennedy University Newsletter, Jan. 1979.

Another quote from 1939

They lived und laughed ant loved end left.

James Joyce

Finnegans Wake

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Topic
Looking back Life
Speaker
Jute

Author

James Joyce
Source
Finnegans Wake
Medium
Novel
Genre
Modernist literature
Statement Type
Epitaph
Language
English
Time
1939 1930s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Joyce, James. Finnegans Wake. Faber and Faber, 1939.

Current Citation

Joyce, James. Finnegans Wake. Wordsworth, 2012.

Another quote originally in German

Against stupidity the very gods
Themselves contend in vain.

Friedrich Schiller

The Maid of Orleans

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Topic
Stupidity
Speaker
Talbot

Author

Friedrich Schiller
Source
The Maid of Orleans
Medium
Play
Genre
Tragedy (play) Tragedy
Language
German
Time
1801 1800s 19th century
Authentication Score 2
Citation

Schiller, Friedrich. Die Jungfrau von Orleans [The Maid of Orleans]. 11 Sept 1801, Leipzig, Germany, act 3, sc. 6.