Compulsive Quotes

112 quotes by 101 authors

Compulsive eating is only the symptom; believing that you are not worth your own love is the problem. Go for the love. You will never… — Geneen Roth
Silence and stillness are not states and therefore cannot be produced or created. Silence is the non-state in which all states arise and subside. Silence,… — Adyashanti
In true meditation the emphasis is on being awareness; not on being aware of objects, but on resting as primordial awareness itself. Primordial awareness is… — Adyashanti
When I first began writing In the Country of Men all I had was the voice of the protagonist. He intrigued me and my desire… — Hisham Matar
We're not going to waste our valuable space or your precious energy by giving equal time to stories of tragedy, failure, and tumult. They get… — Rob Brezsny
The true enjoyments must be spontaneous and compulsive and look to no remoter end. — C.S. Lewis
I do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of man's urge to open his heart — Edvard Munch
Curing yourself of obsessive compulsive disorder by going to a strip club is pretty strange. — Tracy Kidder
Certainly architecture is concerned with much more than just its physical attributes. It is a many-layered thing. Beneath and beyond the strata of function and… — Charles Correa
I sometimes have these spells of compulsive truth. But as Lady Macbeth would say, "The fit is momentary." — Ken Kesey
Writing is a demanding profession and a selfish one. And because it is selfish and demanding, because it is compulsive and exacting, I didn't embrace… — Rod Serling
Whenever you are immersed in compulsive thinking, you are avoiding what is. You don't want to be where you are. Here, Now. — Eckhart Tolle
Vanity and narcissism â€” the compulsive need to be admired and praised â€” undermine one's courage, for one then fights on someone else's conviction rather… — Rollo May
Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free… — David Guterson
The individual within the collective is never, or hardly ever, conscious of the prevailing thought style, which almost always exerts an absolutely compulsive force upon… — Ludwik Fleck
To be just without being mad (and the madder you get the madder you get), to be peaceful without being stupid, to be interested without… — Ken Kesey
I have a friend. He keeps trying to convince me he's a compulsive liar, but I don't believe him. — Ben Bailey
I'm a compulsive musician, but it's also a bloody good way out of having to do anything else. — Alexis Korner
I was a violent, bipolar, compulsive liar. I was a real American. — Ben Lerner
Do I need to be liked? Absolutely not. I like to be liked. I enjoy being liked. I have to be liked. But it's not… — Michael Scott

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