Life is not made of yesterdays only. It has a tomorrow.
Carl Jung, Collected Papers (1917), ch. XIV 'The Psychology of the Unconscious Processes'
Life is not made of yesterdays only. It has a tomorrow.
Carl Jung, Collected Papers (1917), ch. XIV 'The Psychology of the Unconscious Processes'
What it means
Your past explains a lot, but not everything. Where you are heading matters as much as where you came from. Ask what a struggle is for, not only what caused it.
The source
"Life is not made of yesterdays only. It has a tomorrow." Carl Jung said it in Collected Papers (1917), ch. XIV 'The Psychology of the Unconscious Processes'. Translated by Constance E. Long, 1917.
"Life is not made up of yesterdays only, nor is it understood nor explained by reducing to-day to yesterday. Life has also a to-morrow"Constance E. Long, 1917, Collected Papers (1917), ch. XIV 'The Psychology of the Unconscious Processes'. Text read at gutenberg.org.
Who said it
Carl Jung (1875–1961). Swiss psychiatrist who broke with Freud and founded analytical psychology. He mapped the persona, the shadow, the collective unconscious and the lifelong work of becoming yourself, which he called individuation. Our lines come only from his writings published before 1931, in our own translations from the German or in English translations of the time.
Questions
- What does "Life is not made of yesterdays only. It has a tomorrow." mean?
- Your past explains a lot, but not everything. Where you are heading matters as much as where you came from. Ask what a struggle is for, not only what caused it.
- Who said "Life is not made of yesterdays only. It has a tomorrow."?
- Carl Jung (1875–1961). Source: Collected Papers (1917), ch. XIV 'The Psychology of the Unconscious Processes'.
- What is the original wording?
- Life is not made up of yesterdays only, nor is it understood nor explained by reducing to-day to yesterday. Life has also a to-morrow (Constance E. Long, 1917). Translated by Constance E. Long, 1917.
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More from Carl Jung
- Your worst enemy lives inside your own chest.Two Essays (1928), I, ch. III 'The Other Point of View: The Will to Power'
- Only what is truly yourself has the power to heal.Two Essays (1928), II, Part I, ch. IV 'The Attempt to Free the Individuality from the Collective Psyche'
- Trade yourself for a mask and you will pay for it.Two Essays (1928), II, Part II, ch. II 'Anima and Animus'
- You and your job are two different things.Two Essays (1928), II, Part II, ch. II 'Anima and Animus'
- The persona is only a mask. At bottom, it is not real.Two Essays (1928), II, Part I, ch. III 'The Persona as a Part of the Collective Psyche'
- Some people come to believe they are their public face.Two Essays (1928), II, Part II, ch. II 'Anima and Animus'