Food compulsion isn't a character disorder; it's a chemical disorder. — Robert Atkins Copy Share Image
Everything that you do under compulsion goes to build up attachment. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I found myself compelled - like this weird, shameful compulsion - to draw cute animals. — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
No compulsion in the world is stronger than the urge to edit someone else's document. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The biggest problem is the big man / one wants to understand his compulsion — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
I decline to discuss, under compulsion, where I have sung, and who has sung my songs, and who else has sung with… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
A story has to be a good date, because the reader can stop at any time. Remember, readers are selfish and have… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I went through a period when I was addicted to gambling. It was a compulsion that I struggled to get to grips… — John Virgo Copy Share Image
A lot of people use a smiley face when they write letters. But it's this huge insane compulsion, like 'I'm happy! I… — Nate Lowman Copy Share Image
Unbelievable," I said. "First you wanted to hide her away to keep you alive. Now you actually want her out in the… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
The drive to resist compulsion is more important in wild animals than sex, food, or water... The drive for competence or to… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
I believe the transsexual urge, at least as I have experienced it, to be far more than a social compulsion, but biological,… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
“have been so trained by others on what we “should” do that we think we are being loving when we do things… — Henry Cloud 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will-to-life. At the same time the man who… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
To become enlightened is not just to slip into some disconnected euphoria, an oceanic feeling of mystic oneness apart from ordinary reality.… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
“The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally,… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
We humans have had from time unknown the compulsion to name things and thus to be able to deal with them. The… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
No man may initiate the use of physical force against others. No man-or group or society or government-has the right to assume… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“It became clear that Keisha Blake could not start something without finishing it. If she climbed onto the boundary wall of Caldwell,… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
A taxonomy of abilities, like a taxonomy anywhere else in science, is apt to strike a certain type of impatient student as… — Raymond Cattell 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
A white lie is always pardonable. But he who tells the truth without compulsion merits no leniency. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
