Quotes about Impulse

Human life is about more than building boundaries, protecting identities, creating tribes, and teaching impulse control.

Always respond to every impulse to pray. The impulse to pray may come when you are reading or when you are battling with a text. I would make an absolute law of this: always obey such an impulse.

Most of the problems in life are because of two reasons: we act without thinking or we keep thinking without acting.

Tis true I know what evil I shall do but passion overpowers the better council.

I will never forget the experience I had when I was in Japan, a place that never heard of the Fall and the Garden of Eden. One of the Shinto texts says that the processes of nature cannot be evil. Every natural impulse is not to be corrected but to be sublimated, to be beautified. There is a glorious interest in the beauty of nature and cooperation with nature, so that in some of those gardens you don't know where nature begins and art ends—this was a tremendous experience.

She would know a good thing to do without thinking about it.

The mind controlled by lust has an infinite capacity for rationalization.

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul.

Unfruitful emotion is to be suspected. Feeling acts as an impulse, as a spur, as a spring, and when feelings are excited, and they put nothing forward, they are sometimes even dangerous to a man.

The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs.

People ... have tried to evoke God or devil to justify them in what their glands insisted upon.