Quotes About Instinct

Mares had the capability to slow birthing so that the foal would have the dark hours to find its feet and be ready to run from a predator by dawn.

Perhaps he was like a horse rescued from a barn on fire, who runs back into his burning stall simply because the place is familiar.

You don't need a prophet to tell you to eat.

An intuition is neither caprice nor a sixth sense but a form of unconscious intelligence.

What is sport to the cat is death to the mouse

When the boy is growing he has a wolf in his belly.

If you panic...you die.

Onkel meg her og onkel meg der,» freste Skarphedin. «Stapp buken full av kjørvel og finraspet einer sammen med en god klatt Dijon-sennep, pakk den i folie og legg den i glørne. Trenger jeg fortelle deg dette, gutt! Jeg er sulten som en ulv!»

Man is almost always as wicked as his needs require.

The very word, religio—to bind (ligio) back (re)—suggests exactly this. Thus these ancient cultures remained profoundly backward oriented. This ritualized return to a primordial past, the very essence of mythological forms of recollection, is what de Lubac perceptively characterized as a "deliberate (though admittedly still instinctive) refusal of history.

We are all in the end those rhesus monkeys who cling to the soft plush mother for comfort, ignoring the food on the wire monkey until we starve. Other people can hurt us more than our bodies can.

When your safety is in question follow your intuition. It will help you balance along the precipice between vulnerability and adventure.

Each of us knows when it's time to wake, eat and rest. We don't need to read a clock for these activities; we need to listen.

Follow your body because most of the time it knows where to go.

El destino no reina sin la complicidad secreta del instinto y de la voluntad

One develops an instinct for letting silence do the heavy lifting. In the three, four, five seconds that passed without either of us speaking, the many ways the conversation could go came and went like time-lapse film of flowers blooming and dying.

Full moon rises. You change. You need what you need, so you do what you do. The kill – like the show – must go on.

The yeehaw explanation is we're too busy chasing meat'n'pussy.

Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the common-sensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.

If you find yourself drawn to an event against all logic, go. The universe is telling you something.

Women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage

Even migrating birds know that nature doesn't demand a choice between nesting and flight.

Woman first tempted man to eat; he took to drinking of his own accord.

An artist's instinct is more refined than the typical mortal's.