Quotes About Instinct

Fascination takes many forms, but all tap into instinctive triggers, such as the need to hunt, to control, to feel secure, to nurture and be nurtured. Some fascinations last only a heartbeat, while others last beyond a seventy-fifth wedding anniversary.

A million generations after our reptilian brains retreated to the base of our brain stems, fascination continues to be our most basic form of attention. Why? Because fascination, at some level, is based upon survival. And to survive, you must fascinate.

This is not a mystical adventure. You are not the protagonist. You're seeing and doing things which are having profound emotional effects on you. You're being irrational. You're not thinking things through, you're not working things out. You're going on mental arithmetic instead of paper arithmetic and you're going on gut instinct instead of worked, peer-reviewed results.This is not good science.

Trust what moves you most deeply.

There is a great streak of violence in every human being. If it is not channeled and understood, it will break out in war or in madness.

neglected and betrayed you, but the animal inside you needed the animal inside them. If only, Rachel thought, you could be content with the animal part. Sometimes it was a burden to be human.

A cat who sits on a hot stove will never sit on a hot stove again. But he won't sit on a cold stove either.

Nothing will ever die so long as it knows what to do under the circumstances, in other words so long as it knows its business.

To live is like to love — all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

To live is like love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

Property, marriage, the law; as the bed to the river, so rule and convention to the instinct; and woe to him who tampers with the banks while the flood is flowing.

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.

For society indeed of all sorts, except of course that of a few intimate friends, he had an unconquerable aversion. "I always did hate those people," he said, "and they always have hated and always will hate me. I am an Ihsmael by instinct as much as by accident of circumstances, but if I keep out of society I shall be less vulnerable than Ishmaels generally are. The moment a man goes into society, he becomes vulnerable all round.

All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.

For property is robbery, but then, we are all robbers or would-be robbers together, and have found it essential to organise our thieving, as we have found it necessary to organise our lust and revenge. Property, marriage, the law; as the bed to the river, so rule and convention to the instinct; and woe to him who tampers with the banks while the flood is flowing.

And the owlet whoops to the wolf below,That eats the she-wolf's young.

I can't tell you 100 percent what makes a relationship work. But I can see something good coming and I can see something bad coming.

She deliberated too much afore making decisions; he acted on instinct. He liked Oreos, she preferred pasta worms.

Go on," he said when his blood

When is the proper time for a child to start walking?" Korczak asks in these pages. "When she does. When should her teeth start cutting? When they do. How many hours should a baby sleep? As long as she needs to.

Spiritual intuition alerts us when we sense that something is not right or when we just "know" this isn't the person for us or the place for us to be in. We know these things without any overt knowledge or concrete information as to why we know them.

when you are tired your lower nature always takes over.

We always say listen to the heart, or the mind or even our gut, but there is something magical about listening to when the hairs on our hands stand up.