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The quivering of Psyche's butterflies. -- Hilda Doolittle
You can't doubt so much, Psyche -- Francesca Lia Block
But Psyche uplifting her finger said: Sadly this star I mistrust -- Edgar Allan Poe
Psyche you out?" I repeat. "I'm your FRIEND. I wouldn't do that." He doesn't say anything. I can tell he doesn't believe me-not quite. -- Veronica Roth
O beautiful white land, olives and wild anemone and violet mingled among the shale, and purple wings of little winter-butterflies say, here Psyche, the soul, lies. -- Hilda Doolittle
Love and the Soul (for that is what Psyche means) had sought and, after sore trials, found each other; and that union could never be broken. (Cupid and Psyche) -- Edith Hamilton
I felt ashamed." "But of what? Psyche, they hadn't stripped you naked or anything?" "No, no, Maia. Ashamed of looking like a mortal -- of being a mortal." "But how could you help that?" "Don't you think the things people are most ashamed of are things they can't help? -- C. S. Lewis
Technical knowledge has now become an integral aspect of the Iranian psyche. -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
We all have an edge. We all are floating our psyche on top with a great ocean underneath. -- Brad Dourif
Eat well and sleep well. That will feed your nervous system and your psyche. As you get older, you look how you feel. -- Francesca Annis
I'm wary of the word 'inventing,' because in the British psyche the word 'inventor' is immediately linked with 'mad'. For me, inventing is problem-solving. -- Thomas Heatherwick
Just as the body goes into shock after a physical trauma, so does the human psyche go into shock after the impact of a major loss. -- Anne Grant
I think there's something in the human psyche that we're titillated by the person who flies too close to the candle and their wings get singed. -- Jeffrey Combs
Making people laugh is a really fabulous thing because it means you're getting deep inside somebody, into their psyche, and their ability to look at themselves. -- Jane Lynch
Music, I think, is best when it honestly explores personal demons, and it stirs around in the silt of the psyche to find out what's really there. -- Tom Morello
Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is to the brain. If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can. -- Martha Beck
I think that you can take things personally or get hurt feelings as a result of something not working out just because your psyche said it should or you deserve it, or whatever it is. -- Michael Shanks
I want to turn my attention to movies about love relationships. Exploring the female psyche - there ought to be some interesting discoveries there. Love stories. If you do it right, people want to hear romantic dialog. -- Sylvester Stallone
Orphans' reflects unconscious elements in myself that were, at the time, indigestible and butting up against each other in my psyche; issues I wasn't really in touch with but was trying to put into a dramatic framework. -- Lyle Kessler
The shock of any trauma, I think changes your life. It's more acute in the beginning and after a little time you settle back to what you were. However it leaves an indelible mark on your psyche. -- Alex Lifeson
The liberal psyche wants to protect minorities, to apologize for imperialism, colonialism, slavery, and the appalling treatment of black people during the civil rights movement. At the same time, they want to continue to defend the rights of individuals. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Superheroes fill a gap in the pop culture psyche, similar to the role of Greek mythology. There isn't really anything else that does the job in modern terms. For me, Batman is the one that can most clearly be taken seriously. -- Christopher Nolan
I really, truly believe that writing comes out of the body; of course, the mind is working as well, but it's a double thing and that doubleness is united. I mean, you can't separate persona from psyche; you just can't do it. -- Paul Auster
To start telling people that you're beautiful, or just feel beautiful, just start acting like you are the most beautiful woman in the world. And it really improves everything! Because your sort of psyche responds to it - like this is truthful! -- Margaret Cho
Something in the human psyche confuses beauty with the right to be loved. The briefest glance at human folly reveals that good looks and worthiness operate independently. Yet countless socializing forces, from Aunt Clara to the latest perfume ad, reinforce beliefs like 'If I were pretty enough, I would be loved.' -- Martha Beck
I think that there's something in the American psyche, it's almost this kind of right or privilege, this sense of entitlement, to resolve our conflicts with violence. There's an arrogance to that concept if you think about it. To actually have to sit down and talk, to listen, to compromise, that's hard work. -- Michael Moore
When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. It's a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind of joy that is not in time. It's a journey that has taken us from primary identification with our body and our psyche, on to an identification with God, and ultimately beyond identification. -- Ram Dass
The great power of separating the watching mind from the thinking mind is that the watching mind is innately loving. Some call this part of the psyche the 'compassionate witness.' Sharing our difficult feelings with a compassionate witness is the crucial step that heals the infinite small wounds inflicted upon the soul by everyday life. -- Martha Beck
The soles of Neil Armstrong's boots on the moon made permanent impressions on our souls and in our national psyche. Ann and I watched those steps together on her parent's sofa. Like all Americans we went to bed that night knowing we lived in the greatest country in the history of the world. God bless Neil Armstrong. -- Mitt Romney
You don't need to know this - but here goes: due to some acquired infantilism, I feel compelled to fall asleep listening to the radio. On a good night, I'll push the frail barque of my psyche off into the waters of Lethe accompanied by the midnight newsreader - on a bad one, it's the shipping forecast. -- Will Self
I feel I'm able to get rid of any demons lurking in my psyche through my writing, which leaves me free to create all of this and to enjoy our family life, stepping away from all the fictional traumas and the dramas. If I write about family in crisis, then I won't have to live through it, I guess. -- Jodi Picoult
You know, I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel you know, like the font and the essence and the source of all divine, creative, unknowable, eternal mystery is just a smidge too much responsibility to put on one fragile, human psyche. It's like asking somebody to swallow the sun. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
It's a very rich brew that's in your psyche by the time you're in your 60s, and I think that's rather interesting. It makes you feel you've lived a very long life; it's like going on holiday to three different cities rather than spending two weeks in Lisbon. You look back on the holiday, and you seem to have been away forever. -- Deborah Moggach
Isolation is devastating to the human psyche. -- Gary Chapman
Relationships are the oxygen of the psyche. -- Jane Fonda
The unconscious psyche believes in life after death -- Carl Jung
Theater has always been most important to my psyche. -- Bill Pullman
Thoughts. Thoughts bombard my head, my brain. My psyche -- Jonathan Harnisch
Laughter brings the swelling down on our national psyche. -- Stephen Colbert
Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche -- Andrew Denton
That common cold of the male psyche, fear of commitment. -- Richard Schickel
I don't like people that try to psyche other people out. -- Molly Quinn
Put your body in motion and your psyche will heal itself. -- Gabrielle Roth
Harbor no secrets - they create dark places in the psyche. -- Deepak Chopra
Anything that can be perfect is very damaging for my psyche. -- Emma Stone
Stay positive, all other choices are pointless punishments to your psyche. -- Joe Peterson
Powerful words that penetrate the psyche are not forgotten while silence is. -- Donna Lynn Hope
As a plant produces its flower, so the psyche creates its symbols. -- Carl Jung
Modern man is battered by the fundamental forces of his own psyche. -- Carl Jung
Rome holds my psyche in balance. Whenever I'm there, it's like a holiday. -- Giambattista Valli
The totality of the psyche can never be grasped by the intellect alone. -- Carl Jung
My primary interest has always been about exploring the human psyche and humanity. -- Dana Snyder
The poetic image is a sudden salience on the surface of the psyche -- Gaston Bachelard
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The human psyche shows that each individual is an extension of all of existence. -- Stanislav Grof
A fundamental understanding of the human psyche is the essential key to successful magic. -- Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin
Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff. -- Alison Bechdel
The desire to reach for the sky runs very deep in the human psyche. -- Cesar Pelli
The world hangs on a thin thread, and that is the psyche of man. -- Carl Jung
I tried to get into the mind of my opponent and psyche him out. -- Muhammad Ali
We are going to wreak havoc on our opponents' psyche and their plan of attack, -- Shaka
Just as a good rain clears the air, a good writing day clears the psyche. -- Julia Cameron
There's a call to adventure. It's something in the inner psyche of humanity, particularly males. -- Gary Gygax
In the collective psyche it is being understood... that we can cultivate wisdom and compassion. -- Tara Brach
Do not pour guilt into someone's psyche, and don't let anyone tamper with your conscience. -- Zeina
There is something about the Australian psyche that seems to like films that are slightly offbeat. -- Nick Park
Is it not clear that a reviewer's psyche, like an iceberg, is seven-eighths beneath the surface? -- Delmore Schwartz
My knowledge of the human psyche is as yet imperfect. Certain areas won't yield to computation. -- Poul Anderson
Superstition is rooted in a much deeper and more sensitive layer of the psyche than skepticism. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
As our dreams make evident, the psyche's own language is that of image, and not idea. -- Christine Downing
I respect knowledge of the psyche. I would be a therapist if I weren't an entertainer. -- Jessica Simpson
There's need to be some sort of disturbance in your psyche for creativity to be sparked. -- Damon Albarn
Some people think that words can injure the psyche or the moral fiber. And they really can't. -- George Carlin
Any unchecked impulse does, within the human body and psyche, lead to the destruction of the organism. -- William S. Burroughs
I don't psyche myself up. I psyche myself down. I think clearer when I'm not psyched up. -- Steve Cauthen
Creativity requires a lot of pass/fail/start again and it is often hard on the psyche. -- Henry Rollins
The four cornerstones of the American political psyche are 1) emotion substituted for thought, 2) fear, 3) ignorance and 4) propaganda -- Joe Bageant
..,No love cannot leave where there is no trust..,~cupid and psyche..,"Greek mythology of Edith Hamilton -- Edith Hamilton
The gift of water, air, soap, and time allows us to heal and relieve our psyche and soul. -- Byllye Avery
The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material. -- Stanislav Grof
The reason you want to act is to continue to explore every different part of the human psyche. -- Jesse Plemons
In some way or other we are part of a single, all-embracing psyche, a single 'greatest man. . . .' -- Carl Jung
Suppression of the feminine principal has enabled The Ego to gain absolute supremacy in the collective human psyche -- Eckhart Tolle
I can no longer be sure whether the psyche is in me or whether I'm in the psyche... -- James Hillman
On day I noticed that something happened that looked like a dramatization of the inner script of my psyche. -- Carol Lynn Pearson
It would be most satisfactory if physics and psyche could be seen as complementary aspects of the same reality -- Wolfgang Paul
As an actor, your motives and your own crazy psyche is really all you're responsible for in the movie. -- Kate Beckinsale
Reconnecting to the animal means getting to a more sensitive, more artful and more humorous place in the psyche. -- James Hillman
Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people. -- Barbara Kingsolver
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Even if the whole world were to fall to pieces, the unity of the psyche would never be shattered. -- Carl Jung
Not all who hesitate are lost. The psyche has many secrets in reserve. And these are not disclosed unless required. -- Joseph Campbell
Writing mirrors the interior self. You know, any book is like the perfect blueprint of the psyche of the author. -- Janet Fitch
Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche. -- Carl Jung
When you set aside the mantle of control in the painting process, images arise from ancient layers of the psyche. -- Michele Cassou
To have a little recognition, that is very nice, you dig. It is good for the ego, for the psyche. -- Dexter Gordon
What I was reading was already part of my psyche, but finally someone else was saying it's okay to walk alone. -- Charlie Trotter
I'm obsessed with the human psyche. I want to understand. I want to ask myself if I have it inside me. -- Noomi Rapace
Slobodan Milosevic was just as smart as a five-year-old. Five-year-olds have an uncanny way of getting into your psyche, your self-esteem. -- Wesley Clark
Shakespeare's stories are still very strong. He structured fantastic stories about things that were fundamental to the human being and psyche. -- James McAvoy
It seems to me that it is psyche in a way that has become occluded by the perverse development of language. -- Terence McKenna
His pagan barbarity, his explosive and angrily defiant melancholy, his demoniacal instinct . . . these are all echoes . . . of the thousand-year-old Hungarian psyche. -- Bela Bartok
Steal moments of happiness if you have to, and then collect them until they are the dominant images in your psyche. -- Chris Hardwick
Rock 'n' roll is good for the soul, for the well being, for the psyche, for your everything. I love it. -- Hank Ballard
My friend...care for your psyche...know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves -- Socrates
Romance novels satisfy a very specific fantasy of romantic love that seems to be a powerful part of the female psyche. -- Melissa Pritchard
Always, a form of self-equilibration, a soul or psyche, is trying to assert itself, to continue the melody of its self-realized life. -- Kenny Smith
It does wonders for my own psyche to turn envy into inspiration. No matter how successful we become, we're never above that. -- Hillman Curtis
Our life is psychological, and the purpose of life is to make psyche of it, to find connections between life and soul. -- James Hillman
The psyche of the individual is commensurate with the totality of creative energy. This requires a most radical revision of Western psychology. -- Stanislav Grof
A Bollywood hero, for most people, has been a Raj, a Rahul or a Prem... it's now a part of the psyche. -- Randeep Hooda
Oh, my passion! That is what finally carried me through. Let passion burn all the way, heating up every layer of the psyche. -- Natalie Goldberg
Strip your psyche to the bare bones of spontaneous process, and you give yourself one chance in a thousand to make the Pass. -- William S. Burroughs
The work of art ... is an instrument for tilling the human psyche, that it may continue to yield a harvest of vital beauty. -- Herbert Read
The separation of psychology from the premises of biology is purely artificial, because the human psyche lives in indissoluble union with the body. -- Carl Jung
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The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable. -- Richard Dawkins
going into a cave might be like going inside one's own mind, crawling around in the pitch-black, nook-and-crannied labyrinth of the human psyche. -- Barbara Hurd
Anger, and the self-righteousness that is both the cause and consequence of anger, tends to be easier on the psyche than personal responsibility. -- Barry Eisler
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