Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
The very worst impulses of humankind can survive generations, centuries, even millennia. And the best of our individual efforts can die with… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
We all nurture impulses which promise freedom from the demands of others, even if that freedom means death. — Sam Tanenhaus Copy Share Image
For the great doesn't happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment it ceases to hope or to fear — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is… — Adam Ferrara Copy Share Image
The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher… — Daniel Bell Copy Share Image
If you had only truth, goodness, and harmony on your side, and the complete absence of the other, there would be no… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Secular humanists suspect there is something more gloriously human about resisting the religious impulse; about accepting the cold truth, even if that… — Tom Flynn Copy Share Image
What is stronger in us — passion or habit? Or are all the violent impulses, all the whirl of our desires and… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
From the living fountain of instinct flows everything that is creative; hence the unconscious is not merely conditioned by history, but is… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
On reflection, moral judgment in the arts appears rather as a tribute to their power to influence emotion and possibly conduct. And… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse. It is the root of all emotional self-control, since all emotions,… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
I usually cast myself in things because acting is how I best relate to artistic impulses. It's what I've wanted to do… — Amber Sealey Copy Share Image
...God will be 'all in all' (I Cor. 15:28) when we are no longer what we are now, a multiplicity of impulses… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. I… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I want to create work that extends beyond myself because I always thought it was a way to change the general rules… — Daniel Buren Copy Share Image
The Holocaust most assuredly challenges any and all faith in God. Faith in humanity. Faith in nature. Faith in the future. I… — Michael Tobias Copy Share Image
I could never stand big-mouthed types. I had problems with that at high school. Ive still got the scars on my fists… — Lennox Lewis Copy Share Image
...as the slow sea sucked at the shore and then withdrew, leaving the strip of seaweed bare and the shingle churned, the… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
As for comics, one has only to turn to the characteristic output of Marvel Comics, for the period from about 1961 to… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Ressentiment is a self-poisoning of the mind which has quite definite causes and consequences. It is a lasting mental attitude, caused by… — Max Scheler Copy Share Image
The further limits of our being plunge, it seems to me, into an altogether other dimension of existence from the sensible and… — William James Copy Share Image
The drama is not a mere copy of nature, not a facsimile. It is the free running hand of genius, under the… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
The jostling of young minds against each other has this wonderful attribute, that one can never foresee the spark, nor predict the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If our impulses were confined to hunger, thirst, and desire, we might be nearly free; but now we are moved by every… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The thinker philosophizes as the lover loves. Even were the consequences not only useless but harmful, he must obey his impulse. — William James Copy Share Image
The travel impulse is mental and physical curiosity. It's a passion. And I can't understand people who don't want to travel. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
My impulse is to create an aesthetic that's about a humanistic approach to a world and trying to create compassion for all… — Mike White Copy Share Image
Go away, dig a hole, do something else, come back and it magically rejuvenates your creative impulses and stuff. — Mel Gibson Copy Share Image
Tenderness is the name for a lover's most exquisite sensation; protection is implied in his most generous and heart-thrilling impulse. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
I think every creative impulse that a working writer, or artist of any sort has, comes out of that dark old country… — Anne Rivers Siddons Copy Share Image
That impulse I think is a form of love. Poetry is something that comes to you, rather than your having to work… — Judith Wright Copy Share Image
Man is endowed by nature with organic relations to his fellow men; and natural impulse prompts him to consider the needs of… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
I think too often in our society parents, who may have good impulses, overreach and try to mold and shape and direct… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
The impulse to write comes, I think, from a desire - perhaps a need - to give imaginative life to experience, to… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Dieting is odious and can require years of determination and sacrifice. I entirely understand the impulse to say, 'Screw it,' and have… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
To begin is easy; to persevere is sanctity.- Let your perseverance not be a blind consequence of the first impulse, the work… — Josemaria Escriva Copy Share Image
