Compulsion Quotes

264 quotes by 204 authors

How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it… — Karl Rahner
Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities. — Bertrand Russell
Doing nothing means unplugging from the compulsion to always keep ourselves busy, the habit of shielding ourselves from certain feelings, the tension of trying to… — Sharon Salzberg
A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring… — Albert Schweitzer
I decline to discuss, under compulsion, where I have sung, and who has sung my songs, and who else has sung with me, and the… — Pete Seeger
Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials,… — Simone Weil
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 no-string: in sunset… — William Faulkner
What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make others people's decisions for them? Liberty, the very opposite of ownership… — Tom Robbins
When a condition or a problem becomes too great, humans have the protection of not thinking about it. But it goes inward and minces up… — John Steinbeck
This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,--often the surfeit of our own behavior,--we make guilty of our… — William Shakespeare
Speaking, writing, and discoursing are not mere acts of communication; they are above all acts of compulsion. Please follow me. Trust me, for deep feeling… — Trinh T. Minh-ha
He wondered vaguely whether in the abolished past it had been a normal experience to lie in bed like this, in the cool of a… — George Orwell
The quality which makes man want to write and be read is essentially a desire for self-exposure and masochism. Like one of those guys who… — James Jones
The Word 'Repulse': I hate this word. I believe 'repel' is a perfectly good word, and 'repulsion' is the noun, as well as the title… — Rob Sheffield
Adriana loved even the rank animal smell of the man's body, her sweat-slicked breasts and belly flattened beneath him, and her arms and legs clutching… — Joyce Carol Oates
We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so… — Alfred Hitchcock
The human mind appears suddenly and inexplicably out of some unknown and unimaginable void. It passes half its known life in the mental chaos of… — Christopher Morley
Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth, but there was an excitement in her… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Unbelievable," I said. "First you wanted to hide her away to keep you alive. Now you actually want her out in the world to use… — Richelle Mead
We all remain who we are. But on the way to healing or liberation we have to do what the Romans called agere contra: we… — Richard Rohr

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