Quotes about Instinct

Throughout his life, whenever he became convinced that a course of action was right, the desire to follow it had come automatically.

A dog can't think that much about what he's doing, he just does what feels right.

If fight or flight is the choice, it's way easier to fly.

It's our hearts that tell us the truth of things, honey, and my heart has never betrayed me. Not ever.

There is no question that spending time with God changes our desires. We always become like the one we worship. But it's not because we've been programmed to wish for the things He wants us to wish for; it's because in friendship we discover the things that please Him—the secret things of His heart. It is the instinct of the true believer to search for and find, that which brings pleasure to the Father.

its earliest form, a spontaneous and instinctive endeavor to shape the facts of the world to meet the needs of the imagination, the cravings of the heart.

When we panic, we instinctively turn to our own internal resources because we doubt Him.

You cannot love without intuition.

Mother whispered, "See, you don't have to think about doing the right thing. If you're for the right thing, then you do it without thinking." She turned out the light and I patted my son's body lightly and went back to sleep.

Stay stupid. Follow your unconventional, crazy heart. If your notion violates every precept I've set forth in these pages, tell me to go to hell. Do what that voice says.

Routine is the enemy of instinct......It's better to change and fail than to settle.

Writing's just as natural to me as getting up and cooking breakfast.