Quotes About Symbolism

During the process of therapy the individual comes to ask himself, in regard to ever-widening areas of his life-space, "How do I experience this?" "What does it mean to me?" "If I behave in a certain way how do I symbolize the meaning which it will have for me?" He comes to act on a basis of what may be termed realism—a realistic balancing of the satisfactions and dissatisfactions which any action will bring to himself.

tasting the four elements (yoruba) In a ritual adapted from a Yoruba tradition, the bride and groom taste four flavors that represent different emotions within a relationship: sour (lemon), bitter (vinegar), hot (cayenne), and sweet (honey). By tasting each of the flavors, the couple symbolically demonstrates that they will be able to get through the hard times in life and, in the end, enjoy the sweetness of their marriage.

When the dead person cries, it is a sign that he is on the road to get well,' said the Crow solemnly.

Washington had also asked that the Bible on which he would swear his oath come from the nearby St. John's Masonic Lodge. The choice carried a more private symbolism, for Washington, like many of the Revolutionary leadership, had long been a member of the secret society know as the Freemasons. With little or no attachment to any church, Washington had two intense organizational commitments: Freemasonry and the Society of the Cincinnati.

your head is flowers, your body the body of a deer, pierced

You're an onion and Karen's a Maraschino cherry and I love you because onions are more complicated than cherries. I'm doomed.

The English word psyche, meaning "soul" or "mind," comes from the Greek word psyche, meaning butterfly.

I think I am Princess Leia and Princess Leia is me. It's like a Mobius Striptease.

But tonight we danced with the drowned. And they were us.

On December 1, 1947, the Great Beast died, aged seventy-two.

By what right does the wolf judge the lion?

Robert was the true steel. Stannis is pure iron, black and hard and strong, yes, but brittle, the way iron gets. He'll break before he bends. And Renly, that one, he's copper, bright and shiny, pretty to look at but not worth all that much at the end of the day.

It was never wise for a ruler to eschew the trappings of power, for power itself flows in no small measure from such trappings.

The crow calls the raven black.

When it comes to swords, a queen is only a woman after all.

Black or red, a dragon is still a dragon." - Illyrio Mopatis

There's nothing half so mortal as a grey goose feather.

Yes, all Lannisters are lions, and when a Tyrell breaks wind it smells just like a rose.

White is for Starks. I'll drink red like a good Lannister.

The blessing was an empty ritual, she knew, but rituals and ceremonies had power in the eyes of the ignorant.

Black Wind was Asha's longship. He had not seen his sister in ten years, but that much he knew of her. Odd that she would call it that, when Robb Stark had a wolf named Grey Wind. "Stark is grey and Greyjoy's black," he murmured, smiling, "but it seems we're both windy.

I'm not an owl," said Arya. "I'm a wolf. I'll howl.

son for Loraq, no heir to unite dragon and harpy. When the sun rises in the west and sets in the east, when the seas go dry and mountains blow in the

All the best swords have names." "Like Ice," she said. She looked at the blade in her hand. "Does this have a name? Oh, tell me." "Can't you guess?" Jon teased. "Your very favorite thing." Arya seemed puzzled at first. Then it came to her. She was that quick. They said it together: "Needle!