Quote by Marie-Louise von Franz

When things hurt us, we're merely on our way to another spiritual environment.

— Myrtle Reed

“Our thinking controls how we react towards our circumstances,therefore, never allow antecedent causes to necessitate your actions...”

— Christopher Ty

We all know, from what we experience with and within ourselves, that our conscious acts spring from our desires and our fears. Intuition tells…

— Albert Einstein

“We learn to restrain ourselves as we get older. We keep apart when we have quarrelled, express ourselves in well-bred phrases, and in this…

— George Eliot

“we can go below our hardened ways to the soft impulses that birth them. Instead of breaking the bone of our stubbornness, we can…

— Mark Nepo

“As we throw ourselves into raw actions, our senses and instincts will rapidly be honed again”

— Andrew S. Grove

“To deny our impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human.”

— Andy and Larry Wachowski

“Sometimes we do things, without thinking, that make no sense to us until much later, and yet appear to have been prompted by the…

— Julien Green

“Each reaction we have is there to inspect us and reveal our own nature to ourselves and for ourselves; it is never about others.”

— Bryant McGill

“And so it is that the bulk of what appear to be the emotional renderings of our inmost sensations do no more than relieve…

— Marcel Proust

“Our actions may be impeded by them, but there can be no impeding our intentions or our dispositions. Because we can accommodate and adapt.…

— Marcus Aurelius

“There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse. It is the root of all emotional self-control, since all emotions, by their…

— Daniel Goleman