We enter into solitude first of all to meet our Lord and to be with him and him alone. Only in the… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
As a child, I was always making sound; it was a compulsion. I loved to scream and yell and sing; it freed… — Zola Jesus Copy Share Image
There should be no element of slavery in learning. Enforced exercise does no harm to the body, but enforced learning will not… — Plato Copy Share Image
If I feel like crying, I'll just cry in a dream. Something I really try not to do in my waking hours.… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
The inexorable compulsion of all things is towards health or destruction, life or death, and we hasten our joys or our woes… — James Stephens Copy Share Image
The individual, by means of the discipline imposed on him by sport, not only plays and finds relaxation from the various compulsions… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
When doing what we most love transforms us into the best possible version of ourselves and that version hints at even greater… — Steven Kotler Copy Share Image
We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next… — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
Knowledge is an attitude, a passion, actually an illicit attitude. For the compulsion to know is like dipsomania, erotomania, and homicidal mania,… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
There are three things we have to let go of. The first is the compulsion to be successful. Second, is the compulsion… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
In any discussion of religion and personality integration the question is not whether religion itself makes for health or neurosis, but what… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
For many people it's Facebook, or sports on TV, whatever it is. I have my own demons that I battle. But whatever… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
We fear not God because of any compulsion; our faith is no fetter, our profession is no bondage, we are not dragged… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Once efficiency is universally accepted as a rule, it becomes an inner compulsion and weighs like a sense of sin, simply because… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
Although Grandma's passion had led me to the power of food, not all of her recipes were healthy. I kept her gusto… — Kris Carr Copy Share Image
A writer has to have some kind of compulsive drive to do his work. If you don't have it, you'd better find… — John McPhee Copy Share Image
I still have guilt. I will probably never get rid of that, but yes, I'm free of the compulsion and the driving… — Jeffrey Dahmer Copy Share Image
“That which we are, we shall teach, not voluntarily, but involuntarily. Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The thought of her gave me such a continual anguish that I could no more forget her than an aching tooth. It… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
How do our lives ravel out into the no-wind, no-sound, the weary gestures wearily recapitulant: echoes of old compulsions with no-hand on… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
It is this compulsion to look backwards at a time of crisis because one's got no idea of what lies ahead. There… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
TO THOSE WHO WOULD USE INTELLIGENCE IN THE BATTLE AGAINST DEATH - TO STRENGTHEN THE WILL TO LIVE AGAINST THE WISH TO… — Karl A. Menninger Copy Share Image
Anarchism is grounded in a rather definite social-psychological hypothesis: that forceful, graceful and intelligent behaviour occurs only when there is an uncoerced… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
The Constitution was definitely and specifically designed to hobble all people who are so foolish as to think themselves capable of leading… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
If the state, with all of the emotional resources at its command, cannot finance its most basic and vital activities without resort… — Mancur Olson Copy Share Image
The state is the only institution entitled to apply coercion and compulsion and to inflict harm upon individuals. This tremendous power cannot… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Doing nothing means unplugging from the compulsion to always keep ourselves busy, the habit of shielding ourselves from certain feelings, the tension… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
I think I'm a very lazy writer and by that I mean that I do not battle, I don't struggle too hard… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
It would be difficult, perhaps, to find the annals of a nation less stained with crimes than those of the Armenians, whose… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
I have talked about choosing rather than acting from compulsion. When you feel that you have to live according to someone else's… — Virginia Satir Copy Share Image
You know, many writers really don't like to write. I think this the chief complaint of so many. They hate to write;… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. In protest, I declined election to the National Institute… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
“Stress-relieving impulses like these had driven most of his actions during the previous year. His intervention on behalf of his patients was… — Charles Graeber Copy Share Image
“Love is a compulsion you can’t subdue; an irresistible force, one can’t restrain! It’s not in our control, no matter how hard… — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
When we look at the astonishing material achievements of the West. we see these things as the result, not of compulsion or… — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
It must always be remembered that you can never do right until you are first free to do wrong; since the doing… — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
The State is not, as many political scientists would make it, an inanimate thing; it consists of people, human beings, each of… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
Political controls in the sense that we think of bureaus or departments of government can never ope to produce collaboration between groups… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
