A Quote by Carl Jung

No one should deny the danger of the descent, but it can be risked. No one need risk it, but it is certain that someone will. And let those who go down the sunset way do so with open eyes, for it is a sacrifice which daunts even the gods. Yet every descent is followed by an ascent.

Carl Jung

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Carl Jung
Swiss - Psychologist
July 26, 1875 - June 6, 1961

We cannot find God without God. We cannot reach God without God. We cannot satisfy God without God - which is another way of saying that all our seeking will fall short unless God starts and finishes the search. The decisive part of our seeking is not our human ascent to God, but His descent to us. Without God's descent there is no human ascent. The secret of the quest lies not in our brilliance but in His grace.

Os Guinness

The descent beckons as the ascent beckoned

William Carlos Williams

Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.

Mahatma Gandhi

The descent into the depths always seems to precede the ascent.

Carl Jung

We as Americans of Latin descent are just as American as anyone else of any other descent.

Esai Morales

If the ascent of women has been much exaggerated, so has the descent of men.

Stephanie Coontz

For all great innovations, someone took a risk. They risked capital; they risked their energy; they risked their opportunity cost; and more important, they risked failure. We can't innovate without the belief that we can succeed, the confidence that others will be there to help us on the journey, and the security that we will not be punished if we fail to reach our goal. A fast-moving world demands innovation for long-term success.

Dov Seidman

The descent into matter must be complete before the ascent to spirit can commence.

Dion Fortune

My individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye.

Joni Mitchell

My dad is from Japanese descent, my mom is from Swedish descent and, through marriages and divorces, a pretty multicultural family - a lot of Spanish speakers in the family.

Cary Fukunaga

Oh you who are born of the gods, easy is the descent into Hell. The door of darkness stands open day and night. But to retrace your steps, and come back out into the brightness above, that is the work, that is the labor.

Virgil

It is useless saying that we do not accept the gods of the primitive world. In form, no; in essence, yes. The fact before us is that all ideas of gods can be traced to the earliest stages of human history.... There is an unbroken line of descent linking the gods of the most primitive peoples to those of modern man. We reject the world of the savage; but we still, in our churches, mosques, synagogues and temples, perpetuate the theories he built upon that world.

Chapman Cohen

there is no ascent to the heights without prior descent into darkness, no new life without some form of death.

Karen Armstrong

It's hard to be a minority. People look at you a different way, like you don't belong, and I don't think many people realize just how difficult it is to live as a minority. Where I come from, we learn to tolerate one another. Whether one is of Chinese descent or Malay descent, what matters is we're part of the same country, the same world.

Andrea Hirata

The United Nations and the Organization of American States have named 2011 as the International Year for People of African Descent. This is an opportunity for all of us around the globe to celebrate the diversity of our societies and to honor the contributions that our fellow citizens of African descent make every day to the economic, social and political fabrics of our communities.