Compulsion Quotes

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Our work is not to change what you do, but to witness what you do with enough awareness, enough curiosity, enough tenderness that the lies… — Geneen Roth
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. — Plato
No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory. — Plato
And what shall he suffer who slays him who of all men, as they say, is his own best friend? I mean the suicide, who… — Plato
When doing what we most love transforms us into the best possible version of ourselves and that version hints at even greater future possibilities, the… — Steven Kotler
Not merely by rules of conduct and religious observances, nor by much learning either, nor even by attainment of concentration, nor by sleeping alone, do… — Gautama Buddha
Perhaps the greatest discovery of my life, without question the greatest commitment, came when finally I had the confidence in God that I would loan… — Boyd K. Packer
The real joy of life is in its play. Play is anything we do for the joy and love of doing it, apart from any… — Walter Rauschenbusch
I started off like everyone else does, slogging but having a compulsion to put words on paper. I didn't write or read horror or fantasy,… — Laurell K. Hamilton
The most remarkable aspect of the transition we are living through is not so much the passage from want to affluence as the passage from… — Henri Lefebvre
For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted. — C.S. Lewis
The essence of a free life is being able to choose the style of living you prefer free from exclusion and without the compulsion of… — Eleanor Holmes Norton
It must always be remembered that you can never do right until you are first free to do wrong; since the doing of a thing… — Victoria Woodhull
The basic need of the creator is independence. The reasoning mind cannot work under any form of compulsion. It cannot be curbed, sacrificed or subordinated… — Ayn Rand
Anarchism aims to strip labor of its deadening, dulling aspect, of its gloom and compulsion. It aims to make work an instrument of joy, of… — Emma Goldman
Writing is work, but it's also a compulsion, and once you get your characters on paper, you can't abandon them. You have to respond to… — Rosamunde Pilcher
The Element is about discovering your self, and you can't do this if you're trapped in a compulsion to conform. You can't be yourself in… — Ken Robinson
Kindness is more powerful than compulsion. — Charles R. Schwab
But that night as I drove back to Montreal, I at least discovered this: that there is no simple explanation for anything important any of… — Hugh MacLennan
If we become aware of its limitations and compulsions, we can transcend them. — B.K.S. Iyengar

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