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Creating without claiming, Doing without taking credit, Guiding without interfering, This is Primal Virtue. -- Laozi
Giving birth and nourishing, Bearing yet not possessing, Working yet not taking credit, Leading yet not dominating, This is the Primal Virtue. -- Laozi
He who is called Krishna is also Siva and the Primal Sakti...He again, who is called Jesus and Allah. Truth is one. -- Ramakrishna
Almost any dog thinks almost any human is the Great Spirit, the Primal Creator, and the Universal Force Behind the Sun and Tides. What human can resist? -- Barbara Holland
Narcissism: It's Primal. No Productive Control of Energy: Seeks constant fresh sources of stimulation and is highly energized running from human-object to human-object, activity to activity, but does not accomplish anything and never evolves or learns from activities and the many people recycled through. -- Lynna Kivela
I get starstruck really easily. I love music so much - it sounds so silly to say that - so if I'm playing a festival and somebody I love, like [Primal Scream's] Bobby Gillespie, is there in the backstage area, I'm like, "Wow this is amazing! There they are!" -- Dee Dee Ramone
There's something incredibly primal about facing something treacherous but doing it anyway. -- Martin Henderson
The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual. -- Edward Bellamy
There's just something about dance. It's like a primal thing in all of us. -- Patrick Swayze
The need for connection and community is primal, as fundamental as the need for air, water, and food. -- Dean Ornish
In wartime we identify ourselves with the nation, and its interests are the interests of our primal selves. -- George H. Mead
The need for love and intimacy is a fundamental human need, as primal as the need for food, water, and air. -- Dean Ornish
I like to have strong opinions with nothing to back them up with besides my primal sincerity. I like sincerity. I lack sincerity. -- Kurt Cobain
It's like a woman's birthright to knit. It's primal. It's timeless. You don't need electricity to knit. You can do it with a candle, girls! -- Tracey Ullman
Family relationships trigger childhood wounds, and those wounds often trump our rational thinking. We can't 'rationally' transcend the kind of primal pain that such relationships can arouse. -- Marianne Williamson
The hypocrisy of some is that we like to think of ourselves as sophisticated and evolved, but we're still also driven by primal urges like greed and power. -- Michael Leunig
People try to live vicariously through fighters, but it's one-on-one; it's primal. There's no other feeling like it. The problem for me was accepting it - that nothing compares to being champ. -- Sugar Ray Leonard
Guys have a level of insecurity and vulnerability that's exponentially bigger than you think. With the primal urge to be alpha comes extreme heartbreak. The harder we fight, the harder we fall. -- John Krasinski
The expressive body is not literal; it's very primal, and that's what I feel when I make the best of my work. It's coming from a primal place rather than an intellectual place. -- Michael Leunig
The human voice: mysterious, spontaneous, primal. For me, the human voice is the vessel on which all emotions travel - except perhaps jealousy. And the breath, the breath is the captain of that vessel. -- Claron McFadden
We've been playing games since humanity had civilization - there is something primal about our desire and our ability to play games. It's so deep-seated that it can bypass latter-day cultural norms and biases. -- Jane McGonigal
High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces. -- Camille Paglia
If a woman gets insomnia, you never know where you're going to find her furniture the next morning. It's primal. We have so little we can control, but we can perfect the way our room looks. -- Nicole Holofcener
The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again. -- Nora Ephron
Possession and exorcism is something that's in every religion and every culture. It's a real primal fear: Is the body a vessel for our spirits? What happens if something else takes over it? Where does the spirit go? -- Eli Roth
Working moms commonly testify that they feel guilty when they are away from their children and guilty when they are not at their jobs. Devoted fathers certainly miss their children deeply, but it does not seem to be with the same gnawing, primal anxiety that often afflicts women. -- Camille Paglia
If a guy is skilled at anything, that's attractive. There's something very primal about that and, sure, it can be as simple as figuring out the tip quickly. It's really cool when a guy tips 20 percent quickly and effortlessly so that when the check comes, he opens it and signs his name and done. -- Danica McKellar
Well, 'They Live' was a primal scream against Reaganism of the '80s. And the '80s never went away. They're still with us. That's what makes 'They Live' look so fresh - it's a document of greed and insanity. It's about life in the United States then and now. If anything, things have gotten worse. -- John Carpenter
I basically started performing for my mother, going, 'Love me!' What drives you to perform is the need for that primal connection. When I was little, my mother was funny with me, and I started to be charming and funny for her, and I learned that by being entertaining, you make a connection with another person. -- Robin Williams
Our ideas about love and attractiveness are so primal, our need for belonging so intense, that most of us are loath to abandon our favorite beliefs on these issues. If you've ever let yourself feel lovable and lovely, only to be deeply hurt, you may see accepting your own body as a setup for severe emotional wounding. -- Martha Beck
I think so much of the horror film is about our primal instincts, and our primal instincts are not just towards violence. It's also towards sex. I feel like horror movies, as much as they're about violence, they're also about sex. It's about our instincts, so in that regard, it's crucial that you honor both of those things. -- Drew Goddard
It's real primal; I just like playing music. -- Ronnie Dunn
Enjoying nonsense is one of life's primal pleasures. -- Marty Rubin
Music has a bonding power, it's primal social cement -- Oliver Sacks
The law of grab is the primal law of infancy. -- Antoinette Brown Blackwell
Bound in primal longings, we pine to be understood by ourselves. -- Masiela Lusha
People love to be scared. I guess it's a primal deal. -- Timothy Olyphant
Poetry, that is to say the poetic, is a primal necessity. -- Marianne Moore
I believe that poetry is a primal impulse within us all. -- Stephen Fry
Being naked in water - there's nothing better. It's primal and freeing. -- Asher Roth
The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and beget. -- William Osler
Fear is the most basic emotion we have. Fear is primal. Fear sells. -- Max Brooks
YOU have meddled with the primal forces of nature and YOU! WILL! ATONE! -- Arthur Jensen
The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget. -- William Osler
Despite the gentlemanly kiss, a ferocity burned behind his gaze promising something primal. -- Katherine McIntyre
Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders. -- Karen Armstrong
It's a real primal thing, watching someone get hurt. It's funny and accessible. -- Johnny Knoxville
Richard Shindell works impressive alchemy with the plainest, most primal American pop melodies. -- Glen Hirshberg
I think that's still the most primal fear of all humans: to be eaten. -- Victor Salva
A stream of primal voicesWhispering in the breeze of your heartTo urge you on. -- Scott Hastie
Give me solitude, give me Nature, give me again O Nature your primal sanities! -- Walt Whitman
Directing attention toward where it needs to go is a primal task of leadership. -- Daniel Goleman
When it comes to society and human consciousness, Darwinism still exists in its primal message. -- Kat Lahr
I love horror movies because they're really fun. They tap into those wonderful primal emotions. -- Margot Kidder
There are three primal urges in human beings: food, sex, and rewriting some else's play. -- Romulus Linney
During labor the most important thing is to get primal and surrender to the process. -- Ricki Lake
Ultimately, there can be no complete healing until we have restored our primal trust in life. -- Georg Feuerstein
Mask your brightness. Be at one with the dust of the earth. This is primal union. -- Laozi
I think a primal role of a man in a relationship is to protect his woman. -- Armie Hammer
Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs. -- Lucretius
I think there's something we all relate to about...wanting to get to our most primal self. -- Vin Diesel
I find myself to be truly primal and passionate. Everything I do comes from a primal place. -- Alicia Keys
Once you've been with each other in a primal, shagging state, it's hard to talk about the weather. -- Irvine Welsh
Not philosophy, after all, not humanity, just sheer joyous power of song, is the primal thing in poetry. -- Max Beerbohm
In wartime we identify ourselves with the nation, and its interests are the interests of our primal selves. -- George H. Mead
The race struggle is the primal one, and the class struggle secondary. The last dominating race is the German. -- Moses Hess
Because connection with others and our "best self" is the most primal need we have, shame feels absolutely awful. -- Christiane Northrup
We are so clothed in rationalization and dissemblance that we can recognize but dimly the deep primal impulses that motivate us. -- James Ramsey Ullman
Death, like birth, is one of nature's mysteries, the combining of primal elements and dissolving of the same into the same. -- Marcus Aurelius
Before I could read, I remember trying to piece together the stories from the images. It was a very primal experience. -- Daniel Clowes
It is the artistic mission to penetrate as far as may be toward that secret ground where primal law feeds growth. -- Paul Klee
When you want something enough, it brings out primal emotions. You get into this place of 'must happen, must happen.' -- Chris Pine
The profound and primal cause of obesity will one day be recognized to be the use of cereal and starch foods. -- Emmet Densmore
...primal people see the objects of this world not (or not only) as solid but as open windows to their divine source. -- Huston Smith
Our social life is literally primal, in the sense that chimpanzees and gorillas, our closest relatives among the primates, are also social." -- Clay Shirky
I never grew up with a mother's hand - that's why I will forever be insecure, I think, in that primal way. -- John Lone
Our social life is literally primal, in the sense that chimpanzees and gorillas, our closest relatives among the primates, are also social. -- Clay Shirky
Live music is the most primal form of energy release you can share with other people besides having sex or taking drugs. -- Kurt Cobain
Building your own house is a primal urge, one of those universal genetic drives like the need to provide for your family. -- Kevin McCloud
Only the soul that is naked and unashamed, can be pure and innocent , even as Adam was in the primal garden of humanity . -- Sri Aurobindo
Nonetheless, we experience a sense of freedom when we feel that we have the ability to make choices and satisfy our primal instincts. -- Ori Hofmekler
Close your mouth, block off your senses, blunt your sharpness, untie your knots, soften your glare, settle your dust. This is the primal identity. -- Laozi
Steak and its accompaniments - wine, vegetables, potatoes and generous desserts - is a primal source of pleasure to which many people can relate. -- Danny Meyer
I profoundly believe that the power of food has a primal place in our homes, that binds us to the best bits of life. -- Jamie Oliver
The primal duties shine aloft, like stars; The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of Man, like flowers. -- William Wordsworth
Dining with one's friends and beloved family is certainly one of life's primal and most innocent delights, one that is both soul-satisfying and eternal. -- Julia Child
It's because you're always fighting sentiment. You're fighting sentimentality all of the time because being a mother alerts you in such a primal way. -- Bret Easton Ellis
As the cat lapses into savagery by night, and barbarously explores the dark, so primal and titanic is a woman with the love madness. -- Gelett Burgess
So this is where the years of maturity deliver us - to this needy, selfish, unwieldy wish to be somebody else's first and primal other. -- Carol Shields
I really believe hatred is not a primal emotion, in that you can't find it in nature. It's basically some kind of distortion of fear. -- Etgar Keret
Heavy metal is a universal energy -- it's the sound of a volcano. It's rock, it's earth shattering. Somewhere in our primal being we understand. -- Billy Corgan
If you want to realize the truth, don't be for or against. The struggle between good and evil is the primal disease of the mind. -- Sengcan
Anger is preverbal, so, by the time you're using words to express an angry feeling, you're already imposing loads of structure on that primal experience. -- John Darnielle
I try to connect to human emotion. I'm always looking for something primal, something really base that is beyond language, that people understand beyond language. -- Will Smith
Some primal termite knocked on wood. And tasted it, and found it good. And that is why your Cousin May Fell through the parlor floor today. -- Ogden Nash
Quetzalcoatl is a primal idea of the duality of human nature. The serpent is the embodiment of Heaven and Earth. It scares people in many ways. -- Robert Graham
In the beginning there were two primal spirits,Twins spontaneously active,These are the Good and the Evil, in thought, and in word, and in deed. -- Zoroaster
Sexual energy between two people is a primal force comprised of power (energy that moves toward another) and virtue (knowing the energy between the two is right). -- Alexandra Katehakis
Just saying an intention and leaving it at that will not necessarily result in an outcome, if there is a stronger, more primal belief behind the scenes. -- Miranda J. Barrett
The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It's followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again. -- Nora Ephron
A lot of times I feel like people stick around in a relationship because they feel a primal need to be with that person for whatever reason. -- Gabrielle Dennis
In the primal state before any manifestation, when there was no motion but perfect balance, this Prakriti was indestructible, because decomposition or death comes from instability or change. -- Swami Vivekananda
The romantic artist, off alone in his storm-battered castle, fuming whole worlds from his brain, reflects his culture's most persistent myth, of God creating from a primal loneliness. -- Garry Wills
The fact that monasticism preceded the identification of greed as a primal sin is an important reminder that our very ability to name sin is a theological achievement. -- Stanley Hauerwas
Music is a gut thing. You're working in a medium which is more in touch with the primal than the modern. A gig is a ritual. There's a congregation. -- Siobhan Fahey
I think this was a change election, as David Axelrod said. It was a primal scream by many who feel that a discredited elite failed them, economically and politically. -- Katrina vanden Heuvel
A rush of primal satisfaction flooded Tool as his opponent surrendered to death. Blackness swamped Tool's vision, and he let go. He had conquered. Even as he died, he conquered. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
The Art Deco movement, architecture from that period and sort of the industrial aesthetic from that period. Art Deco meets tribal kind of thing. All that is my primal inspiration. -- Pamela Love
We are all mediums for our own basic truths. All we really have in life is the primal force that moves us through our days--our unvarnished, untutored, ever-present, inborn agency. -- A.S.A. Harrison
Making music, being creative in some primal way, should be fun. Listening to it or playing it can and should take you out of yourself for some brief blissful moments. -- Simon Price
The cause I am most passionate about is natural birthing. I had my son at home, and it was the most primal, intuitive, empowering, and loving experience I've ever had. -- Zoe McLellan
The story of dance in the Western world is as much an alternative vision of the events of history as is the folk history told for generations by primal people. -- Jamake Highwater
I didn't anticipate the primal quality of my pleasure, the raw physicality of it, the way my whole body leaps forward when I see my grandsons after a few days' absence. -- Letty Cottin Pogrebin
I always find you go back to an animal; it will always show you the sort of primal aspects of behavior. You always know how to respond if you choose that. -- Jake Gyllenhaal
The greatest and most blessed thing in the Germanic life is the mythical, sensitive, yet strong, awakening. The fact is that we have again begun to dream our own primal dreams. -- Alfred Rosenberg
Dame Edna is that rarest sighting in our time of the absolute comic, an inspired personification of caprice whose comedy answered the primal call to take the audience for a tumble. -- John Lahr
I wrote from the time I was four. It was my way of screaming and yelling, the primal scream. I wrote like a junkie, I had to have my daily fix. -- M. F. K. Fisher
It is as if Clinton had called one of the most respected character witnesses in all of U.S. history to testify that the primal urge has a most distinguished presidential pedigree. -- Joseph J. Ellis
WEAKNESSES, n.pl. Certain primal powers of Tyrant Woman wherewith she holds dominion over the male of her species, binding him to the service of her will and paralyzing his rebellious energies. -- Ambrose Bierce
In later life, we don't easily talk of fears, but instead we discuss our 'concerns.' Fear seems too primal and hysterical, but concern is polite and intellectual and nicely under control. -- Michael Leunig

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