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Quotes About Spontaneous

The friendliness of Australians – all of it quite sincere and spontaneous, as far as I could ever tell – never ceases to amaze or gratify.
~ Bill Bryson
I've been thinking Hobbes On a weekend? Well, it wasn't on purpose
~ Bill Watterson
Was this happiness? Happiness had come to him on a bare, rocky island, without any kind of warning. He hadn't done anything to bring it about. He could even make sharp-witted remarks.
~ Tarjei Vesaas
Instead of making the children do good behaviors by threatening to punish them if they don't, the teachers watch the children until they spontaneously do a good thing and give them rewards to reinforce the behavior and make them more likely to do that behavior again in the future.
~ Temple Grandin
There isn't a word for homosexual I do like! Having said that, I would never describe myself as "heterosexual", "straight" or anything else. Especially not "bisexual" (it sounds like a sort of communal vehicle missing a mudguard). I like "spontaneous" as a sexual description.
~ Julie Burchill
I made friends easily, probably because I was spontaneous and average, which didn't intimidate people. It's the quiet ones kids are unsure about.
~ Julie Gonzalez
Fidelity is what cannot be bought or sold. It obeys a law and attaches itself to a necessity. Convenience can be calculated, but fides can only be established by the spontaneous act of a man who is capable of inner nobility. Fides means personality and hierarchy .
~ Julius Evola
Out of nowhere you said, I love you. For whatever it's worth.
~ Junot Diaz
Most things come from inside; they're intuitive. That's the way I am.
~ Andres Iniesta
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
~ Francis Bacon
I am a Smedry, and we do ridiculous, unexpected, eccentric things like this all the time! Ha-ha!
~ Brandon Sanderson
Heroism is often the seemingly spontaneous result of a lifetime of preparation.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Gratitude goes beyond the 'mine' and 'thine' and claims the truth that all of life is a pure gift. In the past I always thought of gratitude as a spontaneous response to the awareness of gifts received, but now I realize that gratitude can also be lived as a discipline. The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.
~ Henri J.M. Nouwen
In the past I always thought of gratitude as a spontaneous response to the awareness of gifts received, but now I realize that gratitude can also be lived as a discipline. The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.
~ Henri J.M. Nouwen
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience
~ Henry Miller
You might almost say, that this strange uncompromisedness in him involved a sort of unintelegence; for in his numerous trades, he did not seem to work so much by reason or instinct, or simply because he had been tuitored into it, or by any intermixture of all of these , even or uneven; but merely by a kind of deaf and dumb , sponteneous literal process.
~ Herman Melville
Yes, I'm the crazy person who totally travels with candles.
~ Bria Vinaite
I do love to shop. But I'm a social shopper. I like to do it while hanging out with my friends. Some of them hate shopping because they treat it like something you have to plan, like a grocery list. But if I'm out and I pass a store, I just pop in.
~ Nicole Richie
Let us be awake and live every moment of our precious, loving, and spontaneous life.
~ Debasish Mridha
Love can't exist without happiness. Happiness can't be spontaneous without love.
~ Debasish Mridha
Love has no distance or barrier, it's instantaneous.
~ Debasish Mridha
I'm quite a compulsive person-I only worked this out recently - I'm compulsive, but I'm also very indecisive. I don't know what I want, but I know that I want it now.
~ Dylan Moran
physicist Paul Davies comments, nonlinear systems "possess the remarkable ability to leap spontaneously from relatively featureless states to those involving complex cooperative behavior."5 And those behaviors? They can be as different as water to ice.
~ Stephen Harrod Buhner
Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.
~ Stephen Hawking