Animals don't even try to look any different from what nature intended. They humbly wear their shells, scales, spines, plumes, pelts, and… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
The idea is that inside every human being, however unprepossessing, there is a glorious, talented, and overwhelmingly attractive personality. Nonsense. Inside each… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity. It is a world in which every word spoken speaks… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
The psyche is the inward experience of the human body, which is essentially the same in all human beings, with the same… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
O gentle vision in the dawn: My spirit over faint cool water glides, Child of the day, To thee; And thou art… — Harold Monro Copy Share Image
There is a yearning that is as spiritual as it is sensual. Even when it degenerates into addiction, there is something salvageable… — Mark Epstein Copy Share Image
I really love any and all manifestations of art, really respect any kind of artistic impulse, whether it's paintings and sculptures or… — Lily Cole 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
The natural impulses of every thoroughbred include his sense of honor; his love of fair play and courage; his dislike of pretense… — Emily Post 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
It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
As the genuine religious impulse becomes dominant, adoration more and more takes charge. 'I come to seek God because I need Him',… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
The sense of inferiority inherent in the act of imitation breeds resentment. The impulse of the imitators is to overcome the model… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
If your child is going to develop a healthy personality with the capacity to remain intact and grow, she must learn how… — Stanley Greenspan Copy Share Image
Natural writers will often try to force themselves into a form - novel, story, screenplay, or poem - that is not necessarily… — Robert Olen Butler Copy Share Image
Music might be defined as a system of proportions in the service of a spiritual impulse — George Crumb Copy Share Image
At the heart of the impulse to tell stories is a mystery so profound. — Dennis Covington Copy Share Image
It's been nineteen days since I've had a suicidal impulse. One of the things that pulls me back is I think to… — Haroon Moghul Copy Share Image
The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In this world, people are violent toward people that they feel are conceptualized as smaller than them. It's an impulse that we… — Indya Moore Copy Share Image
Reason tends to check selfish impulses and to grant the satisfaction of legitimate impulses in others. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
I've always known a lot of very bad people, destructive, brutes of a certain kind. Then I've seen these lovely impulses and… — Paula Fox Copy Share Image
If I did have the impulse to be a parent, I would adopt - or foster. — Rupert Everett Copy Share Image
From the proletarians nothing is to be feared. Left to themselves, they will continue from generation to generation and from century to… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
