Quotes About Instinct

Instinct teaches us to look for happiness outside ourselves.

The herd instinct seems to be the strongest human emotion, one that the race is constantly breeding off as the mavericks are liquidated. Happiness is running with the crowd.

If sensuality be our only happiness we ought to envy the brutes, for instinct is a surer, shorter, safer guide to such happiness than reason.

Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Smile with instinct, then lick your wounds in the darkest of dark corners. Trace the scars back to your own fingers and remember them.

Too often our intellect gets in the way of our hearts thereby blocking what instinctually can be drawn to us bringing happiness

but the crime is more important than the punishment. I enliven all of me in my happy instinct for destruction.

How wrong we are to ignore our hearts to follow the familiar path.

The living body is intelligent beyond our understanding; it is incomprehensibly intelligent.

You need help when you're starting out. On the other hand, some people are very naturalistic to begin with.

Your Heart will lead the way.....follow it!!!

When you grow up close to poultry and fields and gardens and open-air markets, you can't help but develop an instinct for quality food.

In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.

Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements.

Intuition is the voice of the spirit within you.

Tenderness is a deeper instinct than seduction, which is why it is so hard to give up hope.

Sometimes a journey arises out of hope and instinct, the heady conviction, as your finger travels along the map: Yes, here and here ... and here. These are the nerve-ends of the world.

Fear is a survival instinct; fear in its way is a comfort for it means that somewhere hope is alive.

I have followed my ear and my heart, which may be false. I hope not.

We have a swarm of people in the stock market - not out of knowledge, not out of expectation, but out of basically a gambling instinct, the hope that prices will go up.

Human emotions are a gift from our animal ancestors. Cruelty is a gift humanity has given itself.

Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses.

A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body.

To unmask the deceit of every instinct for preservation is to procure salvation for humanity in nothingness.. ..Nothingness must be defined as the absense of all willing.