Compulsions Quotes

34 quotes by 30 authors

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
We enter into solitude first of all to meet our Lord and to be with Him and Him alone. Only in the context of grace… — Henri Nouwen
There is no evidence that we've been placed on this planet to be especially happy or especially normal. And in fact our unhappiness and our… — Jon Ronson
There came a time in everyoneâ€™s life when they realized that in spite of how hard theyâ€™d been running from themselves, everywhere they went, there… — J R Ward
In poetically well built museums, formed from the heart's compulsions, we are consoled not by finding in them old objects that we love, but by… — Orhan Pamuk
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these things… — William Bernbach
Political controls in the sense that we think of bureaus or departments of government can never ope to produce collaboration between groups in the inner… — William O. Douglas
The measure of artistic merit is the length to which a writer is willing to go in following his own compulsions. — John Updike
Writers do not want to think they are less rational than other people, and at the mercy of compulsions, but in their hearts they know… — Hilary Mantel
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion and desire. — Aristotle
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature . . . what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action . .… — William Bernbach
A stepfather surely fulfills his responsibilities; it is a different matter that he does so not with pleasure but because of some hidden compulsions. — Mak_786
The Self is the internal abundance that can be realized at our will any time. It is capable of lifting us up from difficulties particularly… — Dhruva Bhargava

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