Compulsions Quotes

34 quotes by 30 authors

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
The free man is not he who defies the rules ... but he who, recognizing the compulsions inherent in his being, seeks rather to read,… — Bernard Iddings Bell
The framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They too had lived in dangerous days; they too knew the suffocating… — William O. Douglas
As meditation deepens, compulsions, cravings and fits of emotion begin to lose their power to dictate our behavior. We see clearly that choices are possible;… — Eknath Easwaran
When the shoe fits, the foot is forgotten. When the belt fits, the belly is forgotten. When the heart is right, "for" and "against" are… — Zhuangzi
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
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
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
Your desintation is a life of meaning, fulfillment, creativity and joy. A life free of fears, obsessions, compulsions, and addictions, without the insecurities others activates… — Gary Zukav
To become enlightened is not just to slip into some disconnected euphoria, an oceanic feeling of mystic oneness apart from ordinary reality. It is not… — Robert Thurman
You are not your past, not your habits, not your compulsions. When you get to know who you are, anything becomes possible. — Geneen Roth
Every person must live the inner life in one form or another. Consciously or unconsciously, voluntarily or involuntarily, the inner world will claim us and… — Robert A. Johnson
If a quote of two individuals looks identical or almost similar to make it difficult to know as who said it first to be Mr.… — Anuj
To find love is the great human undertaking...and it's always complicated by our compulsions and unconscious patterns, to say nothing of issues of trust and… — Michelle Huneven
Freedom is not only the absence of external restraints. It is also the absence of irresistible internal compulsions, unmanageable passion, and uncensorable highlights. — George Will
In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill… — Ursula K. Le Guin
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
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

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