Think about what goes on in your head when something happens that you don’t like. Part of you will always feel the slightest impulse to grab a tree branch and start swinging.

Because I know it in my bones. You are the only female I desire, the only water that will quench my thirst, the only sun that will warm my skin, the only lips that were...

We should not conclude from this that everything depends on waves of irrational psychology. On the contrary, the state of long-term expectation is often steady, and, even when it is not, the other factors exert...

Anger is easier than forgiveness.

You don’t just flirt with disaster, you have intercourse with it.

All through my writing life, I’ve had this impulse to write autobiographical works.

I don’t believe in God, don’t believe in the devil. Unless you want to count my mother. She might be Satan’s sister, I suppose.

I act on impulse and I go with my instincts.

Do not only think about it, but feel about it, also, before taking appropriate action.

As the genuine religious impulse becomes dominant, adoration more and more takes charge. ‘I come to seek God because I need Him’, may be an adequate formula for prayer. ‘I come to adore His splendour,...

But in the depths of his heart, the older he became, and the more intimately he knew his brother, the more and more frequently the thought struck him that this faculty of working for the...

You know you love something if you’re willing to die for it, and you know it means nothing if you walk away from that which is dying.

When there is silence, Give your voice. When there is darkness, Shine your light. When there is desperation, Offer hope.

To change any behavior we have to slow down and act intentionally rather than from habit and impulse.

It is a fact that if an impulse from one or the other sphere comes up and is not lived out, then it goes back down and tends to develop anti-human qualities. What should have...

We are punctual, a stressed, marked characteristic. We need order around us, in the house, in the life, although we live by irresistible impulses, as if the order in the closets, in our papers, in...

The awful daring of a moment’s surrender which an age of prudence can never retract.

Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus – you have to react, you follow every impulse.

Sexuality with all its attendant yearnings and pains, jealousies and taboos, is the most disturbing impulse humans have.

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

The poetic impulse is distinct from ideas about things or feelings about things, though it may use these. It’s more like a desire to separate a piece of one’s experience & set it up on...

There is a deep and perennial and profoundly human impulse to approach the world with a DEMAND, to approach the world with a PRECONDITION, that what has got to turn out to lie at THE...

When you don’t fight your adversary, you become the coward in the sight of animalistic breeds, but they forget that your real strength stays in the whisper of your voice.

The Arts are not drugs. They are not guaranteed to act when taken. Something as mysterious and capricious as the creative impulse has to be released before they can act.

I hope people don’t take kittens on a whim, like they would a toy, then not care for them.

Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.

Anything you fear is a shackle to ur soul. It is a phobia that tethers and blinds ur ability to see and comprehend your life directions, making you feel discouraged and hopeless in times of...

At the heart of the impulse to tell stories is a mystery so profound.

…our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes

There are things you do sometimes, actions that you take by obeying sudden impulses, without stopping for even a fraction of a second to think, and then you spend the rest of your life either...

The life of a writer is directed by a mad impulsive muse, that can tell them to cancel all their storyline: a creative divergent devil.

The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them.

He had just reached the time of life at which ‘young’ is ceasing to be the prefix of ‘man’ in speaking of one. He was at the brightest period of masculine life, for his intellect...

THE IMPULSE IS TO SQUEEZE ANDFONDLE BABY WILD ANIMALSBUT THEN THEY’D BE BROKEN ANDWHAT GOOD WOULD THEY BE?

Nobody wants to know how you feel, yet, they want you to do what they feel.

I love the way she feels inthe curve of my arm. I loveher unpretentious beauty,her intelligence, her nerve.But could I ever love her?The concept of falling in loveis completely foreign, somethingI can’t bring myself to...

Free will is the cutting edge of Creation, don’t you see? The word spontaneity derives from the Latin sponte, meaning ‘of one’s free will.’ Spontaneity is the impulse, the purest expression of freedom, and the...

HOW CONCISE THAT YOU CAN CRY FROMAWFUL WOUNDS, DESERTION, HAPPINESS,MEMORIES, HUMILIATION,DISAPPOINTMENT OR GRANDEUR.

Don’t be blurred by impulse, to avoid regrets, refrain from doing things that will make you regret.

To me, impulsive means foolish. But if a person’s not a little impulsive, they don’t have a pulse.