Standing apart from the crowd is no drawback. It is a spur.

Carl Jung, Collected Papers (1917), ch. XIV 'The Psychology of the Unconscious Processes', X

What it means

When you grow, you will find yourself out of step with people who have not. Jung says not to treat that as a problem. The tension gives your energy somewhere to go.

The source

"Standing apart from the crowd is no drawback. It is a spur." Carl Jung said it in Collected Papers (1917), ch. XIV 'The Psychology of the Unconscious Processes', X. Translated by Constance E. Long, 1917.

"This contrast is no drawback; it is rather a welcome and effective spur to life and work, for thereby is created the channel required by our psychic energy for its development."

Constance E. Long, 1917, Collected Papers (1917), ch. XIV 'The Psychology of the Unconscious Processes', X. 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 "Standing apart from the crowd is no drawback. It is a spur." mean?: When you grow, you will find yourself out of step with people who have not. Jung says not to treat that as a problem. The tension gives your energy somewhere to go.
Who said "Standing apart from the crowd is no drawback. It is a spur."?: Carl Jung (1875–1961). Source: Collected Papers (1917), ch. XIV 'The Psychology of the Unconscious Processes', X.
What is the original wording?: This contrast is no drawback; it is rather a welcome and effective spur to life and work, for thereby is created the channel required by our psychic energy for its development (Constance E. Long, 1917). Translated by Constance E. Long, 1917.
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"Standing apart from the crowd is no drawback. It is a spur." (Carl Jung, Collected Papers (1917), ch. XIV 'The Psychology of the Unconscious Processes', X, trans. Constance E. Long, 1917). https://spartansurfers.com/quotes/standing-apart-from-the-crowd-is-no-drawback