100 Quotes About Psyche

Your personality is one of your most important assets. A well-balanced personality allows for successful relationships, good health, and enjoyment of life. No matter what our age, we all need to work on improving our personalities to be more effective and happy. Check out the collection below of the most inspiring, encouraging, and wise quotes about developing and maintaining a healthy psyche.

The human psyche is a self-correcting mechanism.
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The human psyche is a self-correcting mechanism. Laurie Nadel
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The more death, the more birth. People are entering, others are exiting. The cry of a baby, the mourning of others. When others cry, the other are laughing and making merry. The world is mingled with sadness, joy, happiness, anger, wealth, poverty, etc. Michael Bassey Johnson
Introspection and observation of others are vital for the ongoing...
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Introspection and observation of others are vital for the ongoing good health of our own psyche; watch, learn and tweak as required. Sam Owen
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Pay no attention to the terrors that visit you in the night. The psyche is at its lowest ebb then, unable to defend itself. The desolation that envelops you feels like truth, but isn't. It's just mental fatigue masquerading as insight. Jeffrey Eugenides
Fearing the unknown within myself has kept me crouching in...
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Fearing the unknown within myself has kept me crouching in a corner. I look to see who I am and discover much that is worthy. Maureen Brady
First, create your ego. Then destroy it. This is all...
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First, create your ego. Then destroy it. This is all of life. Kamand Kojouri
The mystery which underlies the beauty of women is never...
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The mystery which underlies the beauty of women is never raised above the reach of all expression until it has claimed kindred with the deeper mystery in our own souls. Wilkie Collins
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She made beauty all round her. When she trod on mud, the mud was beautiful; when she ran in the rain, the rain was silver. When she picked up a toad - she had the strangest and, I thought, unchanciest love for all manner of brutes - the toad became beautiful. C.s. Lewis
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And as for the vague something --- was it a sinister or a sorrowful, a designing or a desponding expression? --- that opened upon a careful observer, now and then, in his eye, and closed again before one could fathom the strange depth partially disclosed; that something which used to make me fear and shrink, as if I had been wandering amongst volcanic-looking hills, and had suddenly felt the ground quiver, and seen it gape: that something, I, at intervals, beheld still; and with throbbing heart, but not with palsied nerves. Instead of wishing to shun, I longed only to dare --- to divine it; and I thought Miss Ingram happy, because one day she might look into the abyss at her leisure, explore its secrets and analyse their nature. Unknown
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Stories are psycho-diagnostic ― they diagnose the condition of our psyches. When we watch, read or hear a story, whatever detail jumps out reflects an issue in our psyche that requires our attention. Thea Euryphaessa
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Holding as we do that, while knowledge of any kind is a thing to be honoured and prized, one kind of it may, either by reason of its greater exactness or of a higher dignity and greater wonderfulness in its objects, be more honourable and precious than another, on both accounts we should naturally be led to place in the front rank the study of the soul. The knowledge of the soul admittedly contributes greatly to the advance of truth in general, and, above all, to our understanding of Nature, for the soul is in some sense the principle of animal life. Our aim is to grasp and understand, first its essential nature, and secondly its properties; of these some are thought to be affections proper to the soul itself, while others are considered to attach to the animal owing to the presence of soul. To attain any knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world. As the form of question which here presents itself, viz. the question 'What is it?', recurs in other fields, it might be supposed that there was some single method of inquiry applicable to all objects whose essential nature we are endeavouring to ascertain (as there *is* for incidental properties the single method of demonstration); in that case what we should have to seek for would be this unique method. But if there is no such single and general method for solving the question of essence, our task becomes still more difficult; in the case of each different subject we shall have to determine the appropriate process of investigation. If to this there be a clear answer, e.g. that the process is demonstration or division, or some other known method, many difficulties and hesitations still beset us–with what facts shall we begin the inquiry? For the facts which form the starting-points in different subjects must be different, as e.g. in the case of numbers and surfaces. First, no doubt, it is necessary to determine in which of the *summa genera* soul lies, what it *is*; is it 'a this-somewhat', a substance, or is a quale or a quantum, or some other of the remaining kinds of predicates which we have distinguished? Further, does soul belong to the class of potential existents, or is it not rather an actuality? Our answer to this question is of the greatest importance."―from_ On the Soul: Book I_ . Aristotle
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We must consider also whether soul is divisible or is without parts, and whether it is everywhere homogeneous or not; and if not homogeneous, whether its various forms are different specifically or generically; up to the present time those who have discussed and investigated soul seem to have confined themselves to the human soul. We must be careful not to ignore the question whether soul can be defined in a single account, as is the case with animal, or whether we must not give a separate account of each sort of it, as we do for horse, dog, man, god (in the latter case the universal, animal–and so too every other common predicate–is either nothing or posterior). Further, if what exists is not a plurality of souls, but a plurality of parts of one soul, which ought we to investigate first, the whole soul or its parts? It is also a difficult problem to decide which of these parts are in nature distinct from one another. Again, which ought we to investigate first, these parts or their functions, mind or thinking, the faculty or the act of sensation, and so on? If the investigation of the functions precedes that of the parts, the further question suggests itself: ought we not before either to consider the correlative objects, e.g. of sense or thought? It seems not only useful for the discovery of the causes of the incidental proprieties of substances to be acquainted with the essential nature of those substances (as in mathematics it is useful for the understanding of the property of the equality of the interior angles of a triangle to two right angles to know the essential nature of the straight and the curved or of the line and (the plane) but also conversely, for the knowledge of the essential nature of a substance is largely promoted by an acquaintance with its properties: for, when we are able to give an account conformable to experience of all or most of the properties of a substance, we shall be in the most favourable position to say something worth saying about the essential nature of that subject: in all demonstration a definition of the essence is required as a starting point, so that definitions which do not enable us to discover the incidental properties, or which fail to facilitate even a conjecture about them, must obviously, one and all, be dialectical and futile." –from_On the Soul: Book I_ . Aristotle
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The word pneuma (breath) shares its origins with the word psyche; they are both considered words for soul. So when there is song in a tale or mythos, we know that the gods are being called upon to breathe their wisdom and power into the matter at hand. We know then that the forces are at work in the spirit world, busy crafting soul. Unknown
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A great reason why a gloomy history may repeat itself is that we may have neglected what history did. When we neglect what history did, history visits us in the same cloth Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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The sense of respiration is an example of our natural sense relationship with the atmospheric matrix. Remember, respiration means to re-spire, to re-spirit ourselves by breathing. It, too, is a consensus of many senses. We may always bring the natural relationships of our senses and the matrix into consciousness by becoming aware of our tensions and relaxations while breathing. The respiration process is guided by our natural attraction to connect with fresh air and by our attraction to nurture nature by feeding it carbon dioxide and water, the foods for Earth that we grow within us during respiration. When we hold our breath, our story to do so makes our senses feel the suffocation discomfort of being separated from Earth's atmosphere. It draws our attention to follow our attraction to air, so we inspire and gain comfort. Then the attraction to feed Earth comes into play so we exhale food for it to eat and we again gain comfort. This process feels good, it is inspiring. Together, we and Earth conspire (breathe together) so that neither of us will expire. The vital nature of this process is brought to consciousness when we recognize that the word for air, spire, also means spirit and that psyche is another name for air/spirit/soul. Michael J. Cohen
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Until it is taken out of your mind, it is never lost and it is never gone Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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Pulling a great substance from a higher height whilst leaning on a slippery ground with the mentality of having the substance whilst standing is a thought of fantasy. You may only result in falling with the substance Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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You wake up for a reason, you eat for a reason, you dress for a reason and you sleep for a reason. All we do run on the pivot of reasons. For what reasons do you fear? For what reasons do you think? For what reasons do you talk? For what reasons do you open that door each day? For what reasons do you love? For what reasons do you hate? Until we get the reasonable reasons to reason, we shall always ponder over the reasons why we reasoned or we could not reason. Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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When you star arises, your cloud of opposition awakens Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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It may seem so easy to take it easy but, it is never so easy to take it easy Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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The strength of a man is less of the man and much more of who and what backs the man. Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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We all do think of getting to the ultimate in life. The ultimate way to get to the ultimate is to take the ultimate way in life Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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Tenacity is what it takes to dare unrelentingly Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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A thousand minus one is never a thousand Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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Great men take and overtake risk tactically Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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Sometimes in your works, give people the opportunity to express their ignorance; then you prove the wrong with your works. Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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We are all the products of nature composed with essential elements. Every natural force has an opposite. The components of earth, wind, water, and fire comprise nature. Similar to nature, we contain complementary, contradictory, and counterpoising elements. Kilroy J. Oldster
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A clear line of distinctness must be drawn between the environment of the body and the environment of the mind or both the body and the mind be regarded as intertwined and be deprived of strength and efficiency. When the body is in crises, the mind must not be and when the mind is in crises, the body must not be. Such is tenacity and nimbleness Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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I mind the unmindful, but I mind my own mind too. Mine your mind, and mine the minds of others. Mind.. you are mine! Unknown
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Perhaps it was only that I did not feel any crazier than I had ever felt. I did not notice any missing gray tissue, I did not seem to be thinking any slower or more strangely, and so far I’d had no conversations with invisible buddies that I was aware of. Except in my sleep, of course-and did that really count? Weren’t we all crazy in our sleep? What was sleep, after all, but the process by which we dumped our insanity into a dark subconscious pit and came out on the other side ready to eat cereal instead of the neighbor’s children? . Jeff Lindsay
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The power of words is in the works of words. People are much more bonded by the works of words than words. The work of words is the trigger of words. Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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If people do not understand you outrightly, do not worry; understand people outrightly and act with wisdom, courage and understanding Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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Being genius does not necessarily mean knowing it all or having the highest academic qualification; but a persons ability to apply wisdom and common sense to common things in a distinctive manner and courageously, exhibiting the latent deft to the admiration of the masses Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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To yearn for love is for kingdom reality to residue in your psyche Sunday Adelaja
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The ultimate change one can ever seek for is a change in thought. A change in thought is a change in body Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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A great chunk of our lives is wasted on thoughts that bring nothing. We all think about something but, in the end, we only close the day thinking a lot and doing nothing but little. Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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Out of frustrations, out of desperation, out of disappointments, out of mediocrity. out of idleness, out of limited insight, out of difficulties, out of insatiability, out of poverty, out of pain and the vicissitudes of life , so many people shall come to a conclusion that nothing is worth living for; not even what is solemn and sacred but, some shall always turn the woes of life into great land marks and indelible footprints worth emulating . Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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Free your mind. Disentangle your mindset from what can set your mind from your true purpose. Dare when you have to. Enjoy when it is a must. Relax when there is the need to, but, don’t spend the time. Don’t let wealth be a hindrance to fulfilling your true you. Don’t let poverty captivate your true you. Don’t let the environment engulf your true purpose; if possible flee to be free to dare. We all have excuses. Yourself is the most important factor in fulfilling your true you. Free your mind! ! ! . Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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Notable people do notable things for they take notice of the unnoticed. They think beyond our thinking. They look beyond what we all look. They try, fail, and try again. They dare unrelentingly. They don't die with their purpose. They die on their purpose. Though they die, their purpose ever lives. Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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Everyone has something to think about everyday, but it is not everyone who thinks about something everyday. And that is the difference Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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What you have in hand may be of less essence to knowing and using what you have in hand Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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Thought is uncontrollable but controllable. Thought is the pivot of life and the epitome of good or bad living. A controlled thought is a controlled life and an uncontrolled life is an uncontrolled living. Our first and last thoughts from dawn to dusk are of great essence to living a purposeful life. They form a catalyst for a progressive or retrogressive life. What do you think of most before you sleep? What do you ponder upon most upon waking up from bed? The distinctive boundaries to your purposeful day are your first and last thoughts of the day. Remember! the first and the last thoughts. . Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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Many people who think they know do not know what they know and only know what they do not know Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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Do not worry when situations get bitter. A bitter situation is a better teacher. The greatest lessons in life can least be found in comfort and much more in uncomfortable situations of life. Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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So many sounds do come close to our ears each moment. What we allow into our mind and how we interpret what we listen to is what propels our thought and actions Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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Don't worry when situations get bitter. A bitter situation is a better teacher. The greatest lessons in life cannot only be found in comfort but also in the uncomfortable situations of life Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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If you watch great things, you empower your thought greatly. They that do great things do not only look but they see. Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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A time past is an essence gone Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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If only a world-wide consciousness could arise that all division and fission are due to the splitting of opposites in the psyche, then we should know where to begin. C.g. Jung
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One was watching the other day a red-tailed hawk, high in the heavens, circling effortlessly, without a beat of the wing, just for the fun of flying, just to be sustained by the air-currents. Then it was joined by another, and they were flying together for quite a while. They were marvellous creatures in that blue sky, and to hurt them in any way is a crime against heaven. Of course there is no heaven; man has invented heaven out of hope, for his life has become a hell, an endless conflict from birth to death, coming and going, making money, working endlessly. This life has become a turmoil, a travail of endless striving. One wonders if man, a human being, will ever live on this earth peacefully. Conflict has been the way of his life - within the skin and outside the skin, in the area of the psyche and in the society which that psyche has created. . Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism. C.g. Jung
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Who knows? Life may just be a Positive Conspiracy bent on putting us in the right place at the right time every living, breathing moment of the day. It just takes a certain kind of perspective to see this. Realizing this can put our "analyzer" on hold, our interpretive mind on "ga-ga" and our hearts on breathless. Antero Alli
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Early relational trauma results from the fact that we are often given more to experience in this life than we can bear to experience consciously. This problem has been around since the beginning of time, but it is especially acute in early childhood where, because of the immaturity of the psyche and/or brain, we are ill-equipped to metabolize our experience. An infant or young child who is abused, violated or seriously neglected by a caretaking adult is overwhelmed by intolerable affects that are impossible for it to metabolize, much less understand or even think about. Donald Kalsched
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Thoughts. Thoughts bombard my head, my brain. My psyche Jonathan Harnisch
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What a face this girl possessed! – Could I neither die then nor gaze at her face every day, I would need to recreate it through painting or sculpture, or through fatherhood, until a second such face could be born. Roman Payne
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Words! What power they hold. Once they have rooted in your psyche, it is difficult to escape them. Words can shape the future of a child and destroy the existence of an adult. Words are powerful. Be careful how you use them because once you have pronounced them, you cannot remove the scar they leave behind. Vashti QuirozVega
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So many people concentrate on looks, but the invisible is sacred Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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Do something whilst others think you cannot do anything Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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I live in my own head and it all makes sense to me. Tyler
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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
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I am building a healthy support system and learning to use it readily. Maureen Brady
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I am a whole person and have the potential to bring together all the different aspects of myself. Maureen Brady
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I choose what sort of relationship I want to have with my family of origin today. Maureen Brady
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We must clean our national psyche from all manifestation of evil, be it kidnapping, militancy, insurgency, murders or assassinations. Sunday Adelaja
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A group experience takes place on a lower level of consciousness than the experience of an individual. This is due to the fact that, when many people gather together to share one common emotion, the total psyche emerging from the group is below the level of the individual psyche. If it is a very large group, the collective psyche will be more like the psyche of an animal, which is the reason why the ethical attitude of large organizations is always doubtful. The psychology of a large crowd inevitably sinks to the level of mob psychology. If, therefore, I have a so-called collective experience as a member of a group, it takes place on a lower level of consciousness than if I had the experience by myself alone. C.g. Jung
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I am metaphysical being, mystical and emotional, skeptical and cynical, happy and boisterous, loud and bawdy, quiet and melancholy, tender and cruel, full of mirth and despair. Inherent inconsistences mark me as part of nature, which is neither cruel nor fair, or reliable or predictable. Kilroy J. Oldster
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My friend...care for your psyche...know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves" -Socrates Socrates
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A Martial Artist may become A professional fighter but not every Fighter is capable of becoming A martial artist. Martial Arts are about restoration of physical and spiritual balance and fluidity; they are about observing restraints and 'setting example'. Every practice session is A reminder of the play of opposites (yin and yang), .. .. Soke Behzad Ahmadi
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When your emotions are in motion, take a break and ponder! Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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Life is kind of like that, picking the memories you want to frame. We all have an idea of how it should be, all smiles and swing sets. There are the more unsavory moments that we leave in the box stashed up in the darker parts of our psyche. We know they exist but we don’t go flaunting them in front of the dinner guests. Bryan Reardon
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Wounds heal. Scars fade. Awful memories can be overwritten with better ones if given the chance. The little imperfections of our psyches become overshadowed by the people whose love we cherish because they cherish us despite our faults; physical, emotional, spiritual, or otherwise. This thing we call the human condition with all its bittersweet blind corners and senseless humor evolves from within ourselves and not because of some pre-ordained reverie we desire to cast in the constellations. All in all it is what makes life worth living. August Clearwing
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Human beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings. Paulo Coelho
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A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other...every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it! Charles Dickens
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Negative emotions impact the human psyche Sunday Adelaja
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What a face this girl possessed! –could I not gaze at it every day I would need to recreate it through painting, sculpture, or fatherhood until a second such face is born. Her face, at once innocent and feral, soft and wild! Her mouth voluptuous. Eyes deep as oceans, her eyes as wide as planets. I likened her to the slender Psyché and judged that the perfection of her face ennobled everything unclean around her: the dusty hems of her bunched-up skirt, the worn straps of her nightshirt; the blackened soles of her tiny bare feet, the coal-stained balcony bricks upon which she sat, and that dusty wrought-ironwork that framed her perch. All this and the pungent air! –almost foul, with so many odors. Ô, that and the spicy night! …Pungency, spice, filth and night, dust and light; all things dark did blossom in sight; flower and bloom, the night has its pearl too–the moon! And once a month it will make the face of this tender girl bloom. Roman Payne
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The more the tree goes up in the air, the more it goes down into the earth. Remember humility in greatness. Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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You are a manager nonetheless who you are. There is a business worth keeping and you are the manager of that business. Yes, the business of your life. There is a big asset worth managing. Yes, your choices. As a manager of your own life, your choices are your assets. They form the pivot for the doom or boom of the business of your life. Some will be great managers and others will collapse the business of their lives by their choices or stay in mediocrity with the business of their lives. Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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The death of a great man demands the birth of a great son Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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You may be wrong to be right in the wrong direction, but, what is the wrong direction? Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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It is not the oppositions a man face that determine his rise or fall in life but his tenacity to dare to soar and to pursue to higher heights Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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We are bound to meet wrong things for wrong things are bound to meet us but, when things go wrong, don't be wrong, let things be wrong Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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The reluctant will heed wisdom only when the confidence exhibited by the righteous awakens the seed of introspection, and the awareness of acountability, into the psyche of the uncertain. Unknown
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I sit watching until dusk, hypnotized. I think of the sea as continually sloshing back and forth, repetitive, but my psyche goes with the river- always loping downhill, purposeful, listening only to gravity. Ann Zwinger
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Most people who lose their lives because life might be down for them only refuse to know what a tuber of yam that is put into the soil goes through before it comes up as a fresh green creeping plant to bear yet another bigger tuber Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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Risk is everywhere and we all do take risk everyday, knowingly or unknowingly. Ordinary risk produces ordinary men and extraordinary risk equals extraordinary men. The unique line of boundary between the ordinary and the extraordinary is the risk they both take. Great and extraordinary people patiently take a visionary, calculated and an avant-garde risk regardless of the susurrant and cacophonic call of the masses to retreat. They fall, they learn and they move. Without taking a thoughtful risk, we risk our lives unthoughtfully each day . Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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The chains had fallen from her leg, but not from her mind. Margaret Landon
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The psyche of some people, whether through innate structure or via adaption to personal experiences, is uniquely adept for absolute aloneness. Kilroy J. Oldster
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There exist no new mistakes anywhere. The same mistakes people committed are the same mistakes people are committing and the same mistakes shall people commit Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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If I don't defend for myself, who will? Wesley T. Calaway
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At the end of the day, when the sun falls a willing prisoner of the night..and humans, males and females alike, become submitted to the mistress of the dark, my mind begins to wander and wonder. Looking upwards at a blank slate of concrete, the psyque expresses freely what my subconscious is afraid to give free rein. And there and then, between the play of reality and dreamland, I find my place. I find myself. . Eiry Nieves
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You hold substance in my psyche Sarahbeth Purcell
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We all have an edge. We all are floating our psyche on top with a great ocean underneath. Brad Dourif
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What troubles us much, is of less importance to what troubles us much that invokes our thought, heart, spirit and body to dare to a live distinctive footprint on earth Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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The story of Psyche finally made sense to him- why a mortal girl would be so afraid. Why would she risk breaking the rules to look the god of love in the face, because she feared he might be a mo Rick Riordan
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I could not undo overnight the damage that had been done to my psyche over many years. The only way over was through- I knew that_ but it was still debilitating and stressful. All I could do was face the fear and keep going. Carolyn Jessop
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The most valuable thing we can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of room, not try to be or do anything whatever. May Sarton
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I look upon the gift of my life as a wondrous journey. Maureen Brady
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If you want to know the real character of man, intentionally and timely give him the test of 3d’s; delay, denial and disappointment Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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Don't ever allocate necessary time for unnecessary things. Understand what time it is to do what it is Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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There is an undercurrent of savagery in the human psyche. Anyone who forgets this and doesn’t guard against it, risks being swept away by it. Lance Conrad