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Definition of Psyche

Psyche

A lovely maiden, daughter of a king and mistress of Eros, or Cupid. She is regarded as the personification of the soul.

The soul; the vital principle; the mind.

A cheval glass.

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Psyche Quotations

I was coming off of a lot of psyche meds and other things.
Elliott Smith

I respect knowledge of the psyche. I would be a therapist if I weren't an entertainer.
Jessica Simpson

Technical knowledge has now become an integral aspect of the Iranian psyche.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

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

Ancient eschatological texts are actually maps of the inner territories of the psyche that seem to transcend race and culture and originate in the collective unconscious.
Stanislav Grof

The psyche of the individual is commensurate with the totality of creative energy. This requires a most radical revision of Western psychology.
Stanislav Grof

The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material.
Stanislav Grof

The human psyche shows that each individual is an extension of all of existence.
Stanislav Grof

Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the truly magical and spiritual powers of music arise from deeper levels of our psyche.
George Crumb

Well, thank you and that's for them, but for me, I want to look back at a body of work where when you do the research and you explore the psyche of a character, where she's been, where she is and where she's going.
Pam Grier

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 whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
Iris Chang

The work that must be done for each woman to reconnect with her psyche and to give herself a chance to live her own life is essentially the same. The realization of the equality of all races, the equality of all beings is essential.
Betty Buckley

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

Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff.
Alison Bechdel

If you actively do something, it will stop making you feel like a victim and you'll start feeling like part of the solution, which is just a huge benefit to your body and your psyche.
Ted Danson

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've never been driven by fame or money or anything like that. It's never been part of my psyche.
Richard O'Brien

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

I would say being in that institution - that psyche ward, or whatever it was. That was really creepy because it was a real place from like the early 1900s.
Jay Hernandez

To have a little recognition, that is very nice, you dig. It is good for the ego, for the psyche.
Dexter Gordon

Rock 'n' roll is good for the soul, for the well being, for the psyche, for your everything. I love it.
Hank Ballard

There's a call to adventure. It's something in the inner psyche of humanity, particularly males.
Gary Gygax

Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche.
Andrew Denton

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

There is something about the Australian psyche that seems to like films that are slightly offbeat.
Nick Park

What I was reading was already part of my psyche, but finally someone else was saying it's okay to walk alone.
Charlie Trotter

We all have an edge. We all are floating our psyche on top with a great ocean underneath.
Brad Dourif