The real joy of life is in its play. Play is anything we do for the joy and love of doing it,… — Walter Rauschenbusch Copy Share Image
Nell was not one for friends and had never hidden her distaste for most other humans, their neurotic compulsion for the acquisition… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
the most elementary experience of life proves that the effects of compulsion last exactly as long as the physical or moral club… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
“compulsion to direct the attention of others is one of the first cognitive traits that emerge during childhood development that is truly… — Svante Pääbo Copy Share Image
Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“Natural abilities do not respond well to compulsion; when Nature is in opposition, labour is fruitless.” — Seneca Copy Share Image
Government has ceased to mean upholding and reinforcing the traditional rights and morals of the governed; it now means compulsion in the… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
All my writings may be considered tasks imposed from within, their source was a fateful compulsion. What I wrote were things that… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Those who have racked their brains to discover new proofs have perhaps been induced to do so by a compulsion they could… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
When Orson Welles was acting in 'Compulsion,' the director Richard Fleischer let him just take over and direct the courtroom scenes. To… — Robert Osborne Copy Share Image
Compulsion in the literal Sense is maliciously misrepresented, by supposing it authorizes Violences committed against the Truth. The Answer to this; by… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
The compulsion to do the opposite of what you are told does not lend itself to many occupations outside the entertainment industry.… — Greg Fitzsimmons Copy Share Image
“I glanced at him. “Why did you eat the tiger?” He shrugged. “I don’t know. It was a compulsion. I saw him… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
Not merely by rules of conduct and religious observances, nor by much learning either, nor even by attainment of concentration, nor by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Society of leisure perhaps? Indeed, the most remarkable aspect of the transition we are living through is not so much the passage… — Henri Lefebvre Copy Share Image
Moral decay first hampers and then strangles honest government, regular commerce, and even the ability to take genuine pleasure in the goods… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
The antidote to hatred in the heart, the source of violence, is tolerance. Tolerance is an important virtue of bodhisattvas [enlightened heroes… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“I reeled with giddiness - flames passed before my eyes. I remembered those precipices that drew one towards them with irresistible power… — Erckmann-Chatrian Copy Share Image
Molly Notkin often confides on the phone to Joelle van Dyne about the one tormented love of Nokin's life thus far, an… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The public sector can only feed off the private sector; it necessarily lives parasitically upon the private economy. But this means that… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
I think that it is a fallacy to suppose that helpful cooperation in the future will be assured by the attempted compulsion… — Charles Evans Hughes Copy Share Image
Without constraint, without any form of mental compulsion, the act of belief becomes the freest possible projection of what resides in our… — Terryl L. Givens Copy Share Image
Writing for me is a kind of compulsion, so I don't think anyone could have made me do it, or prevented me… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor - not a commentator or analyst. I feel no… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
Writing is work, but it's also a compulsion, and once you get your characters on paper, you can't abandon them. You have… — Rosamunde Pilcher Copy Share Image
We may say that hysteria is a caricature of an artistic creation, a compulsion neurosis a caricature of a religion, and a… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Compulsion: one of those solid respectable psychological-sounding words to nicely wrap the truth: she was as mad as a hatter, as crazy… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something. — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
“It is just as useless to think constantly out of compulsion as it is to refuse to put down a hammer that… — Ryan Kurczak Copy Share Image
Do you think nobody would willingly entrust his children to you or pay you for teaching them? Why do you have to… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
It is your compulsion. Even Knowing this: that anyone can shatter your confidence when you have to rely on someone — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
“Once you are defiled, you can't get back your purity by any means, instead, you will only look for ways to be… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I have an unfortunate compulsion. I really would rather not do it, as it is very nerve-wracking and un-fun. But when it… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
...If I don't have twenty or thirty books right here, waiting to be read, I start jonesing. That's my compulsion. — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The communal life of human beings had . . . a two-fold foundation: the compulsion to work, which was created by external… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite. — Aristotle Copy Share Image