"Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose..." - Carl Jung

😊 Happiness

“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.”

— Carl Jung

Jung explains that happiness requires contrast with sadness to have meaning.

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