Untamed Quotes

• Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Confused, Feelings

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Aug 12, 2011

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• Release your majestic mind, embrace your untamed inner spirit. Break free from captivity, avoid society.. You were born to be free.

  Melanie Muller

  Free Spirit, Mind, Captivity

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• The dreamer's untamed eye sees beyond the illusions to the heart of what is real.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Real, Heart, Eye

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• There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.

  Aristophanes

  Women, Fire, Would Be

  Aristophanes (2006). “Complete Plays of Aristophanes”, p.367, Bantam Classics

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• I took a day to search for God, And found Him not. But as I trod By rocky ledge, through woods untamed, Just where one scarlet lily flamed, I saw His foot print in the sod.

  Bliss Carman

  Feet, Ledges, Lilies

  Bliss Carman (1931). “Bliss Carman's Poems”, McClelland & Stewart

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• The analytic psychotherapist thus has a threefold battle to wage -- in his own mind against the forces which seek to drag him down from the analytic level; outside the analysis, against opponents who dispute the importance he attaches to the sexual instinctual forces and hinder him from making use of them in his scientific technique; and inside the analysis, against his patients, who at first behave like opponents but later on reveal the overvaluation of sexual life which dominates them, and who try to make him captive to their socially untamed passion.

  Sigmund Freud

  Passion, Mind, Battle

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1958). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud: The case of Schreber, papers on technique and other works”

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• Curiosity is a quest for wisdom on untamed grounds.

  Wes Fesler

  Curiosity, Quests

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• After I did Untamed Heart I wanted to do a film that was outrageous. I really wanted to do, you know, a performance. I don't want to allow my image to rule the choices that I make.

  Christian Slater

  Heart, Choices, Want

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• The world looks with some awe upon a man who appears unconcernedly indifferent to home, money, comfort, rank, or even power and fame. The world feels not without a certain apprehension, that here is someone outside its jurisdiction; someone before whom its allurements may be spread in vain; some one strangely enfranchised, untamed, untrammelled by convention, moving independent of the ordinary currents of human action.

  Winston Churchill

  Moving, Home, Independent

  Sir Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Never Give In!: Winston Churchill's Speeches”, p.114, A&C Black

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• Almost every person, from childhood, has been touched by the untamed beauty of wildflowers.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Garden, Childhood, Wildflowers

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• There will always be a few people who have the courage to love what is untamed inside us. One of those men is my father.

  Alison Lohman

  Fathers Day, Men, Father Son

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• Christians walk as strangers in the world: They are untamed. They are free. To persevere with love, yet untamed by man, is often what leaves that open space for divine revelation when God so wills.

  Criss Jami

  Christian, Men, Space

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.71, Criss Jami

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• I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river Is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable.

  T. S. Eliot

  Strong, Thinking, Rivers

  Four Quartets "The Dry Salvages" pt. 1 (1941)

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• A wild, untamed youth learns nobility through art.

  Jacques d'Amboise

  Art, Youth, Nobility

  Jacques D'Amboise (2011). “I Was a Dancer”, p.11, Knopf

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• He wondered what the years had done to his face as he traced the effects on hers. Eyes the same blue-lit green, but where mischievous joy once danced, now he saw sadness, deep as the ocean. Her cheeks were thinner. There was something else too: the arrogant pride of a princess seemed to be extinct. Yet the indefinable, untamed quality of her spirit remained. Yes, it was Torina.

  Victoria Hanley

  Ocean, Princess, Sadness

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• He was like some wild, untamed creature that you could keep and feed for a time, but in the end you knew you'd have to let it go for its own sake as well as yours.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Let It Go, Sake, Ends

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Night Pleasures/Night Embrace”, p.563, Macmillan

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• So, even in the midst of craziness and exhaustion and life-changing chaos, I was filled with peace and the sweet knowledge that I was walking the path my Goddess wanted me on. Not that that path was smooth and pothole free. But still, it was my path, and like me, it was bound to be unique." Untamed

  P. C. Cast

  Sweet, Life Changing, Unique

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• To see ten thousand animals untamed and not branded with the symbols of human commerce is like scaling an unconquered mountain for the first time, or like finding a forest without roads or footpaths, or the blemish of an axe. You know then what you had always been told -- that the world once lived and grew without adding machines and newsprint and brick-walled streets and the tyranny of clocks.

  Beryl Markham

  Nature, Animal, Mountain

  Beryl Markham (1994). “The Illustrated West with the Night”, Stewart, Tabori, & Chang

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• It's dangerous faith in our untamed Savior that leads us to the joy we crave.

  Randy Alcorn

  Joy, Dangerous, Savior

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• Parents are untamed, excessive, potentially troublesome creatures; charming to be with for a time, in the main they must lead their own lives, independent and self-employed, with companions of their own age and selection.

  Rose Macaulay

  Independent, Self, Parent

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• There are intellectual vagabonds, to whom the hereditary dwelling-place of their fathers seems too cramped and oppressive for them to be willing to satisfy themselves with the limited space any more: instead of keeping within the limits of a temperate style of thinking, and taking as inviolable truth what furnishes comfort and tranquility to thousands, they overlap all bounds of the traditional and run wild with their imprudent criticism and untamed mania for doubt, these extravagating vagabonds.

  Max Stirner

  Running, Father, Thinking

  Max Stirner (1982). “The Ego and Its Own”, p.113, Rebel Press

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• Day in and day out we do the same thing,
  Tryina find the joy in our repetition.
  Always complainin' about the routine and the mundane.
  But let me stop to remind y'all bout one thing:
  Come hell or high water you can count on the sun
  Always shinin' in its untamed glory.

  Phonte

  Rap, Water, Hip Hop

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• How is it, that for many of us, being a good Christian is nothing more than being a good person? The entire focus of our faith has been the elimination of sin, which is important but inadequate; rather than the unleashing of a unique, original, extraordinary, wonderfully untamed, faith.

  Erwin McManus

  Christian, Unique, Focus

  Erwin Raphael McManus (2011). “Unleashed: Release the Untamed Faith Within”, p.65, Thomas Nelson

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• Nietzsche's vision of the superman is of someone who's able to control and tame his passions and turn them into something richer than raw emotion and raw feeling. I think the best writing does that too. Untamed passion basically results in bad writing or bad polemics, which so many writers and public intellectuals are vulnerable to.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Passion, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• What boy my age didn’t dream of fleeing the well-tended lawn and lamp-lit street for the untamed wilderness, where grand adventure awaited on the other side of the horizon, where the stars burned undimmed in the velvet sky above his head and the virgin ground lay untrodden beneath his feet?

  Rick Yancey

  Dream, Stars, Adventure

  Rick Yancey (2010). “The Monstrumologist: Curse of the Wendigo”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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