Quotes About Instinct

To be happy, follow the heart not the thoughts.

How does a whale know when to swim to warmer waters for winter? How do the fish know whe a predator is near? How do you know when love is real? You just know.

Day gazed out at the sky, where a shooting star was winging across the heavens. "I stepped in between Jenna and the hex. I wasn't even thinking; it was just instinctive." "Of course it was." Barbara gazed at him fondly. "You may think you have changed, but your gallantry was never just for show; it's part of who you are.

We use God to justify our actions when in fact it is our own instinct for survival that pushes us on.

O que importa é a rapidez com que você faz o que sua alma manda.

We are more likely to respond according to our habits than to the specifics of the situation.

Acting is a reflex, a mechanism for development and survival. pg. 2

Just listen to your body, eat in silence and see what feels good and you will spontaneously choose the foods that are beneficial to you.

Pain is not the same as suffering. Left to itself, the body discharges pain spontaneously, letting go of it the moment that the underlying cause is healed. Suffering is pain that we hold on to. It comes from the mind's mysterious instinct to believe that pain is good, or that it cannot be escaped, or that the person deserves it.

At the moment you consciously make a choice, pay attention to your body and ask your body, "If I make this choice, what happens?" If your body sends a message of comfort, that's the right choice. If your body sends a message of discomfort, then it's not the appropriate choice.

Las primeras impresiones, que se toman en un abrir y cerrar de ojos, son las más poderosas. De los recientes estudios se deduce que las primeras impresiones y juicios rápidos son a menudo los más acertados.

the cerebral cortex that has grown enormously over the last few millennia, overshadowing the ancient, instinctive lower brain.

Ask your heart for guidance, and be guided by its message of comfort or discomfort. If the choice feels comfortable, go ahead with that choice. If the choice feels uncomfortable, then don't make that choice.

Finn closed in behind Taylor, an instinct like a mobster's. Family first.

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct.

There's an unseen force which lets birds know when you've just washed your car.

a behavior repeated because it seems to produce reinforcement, even though it is actually unnecessary

I normally can't stand vice-free people. They conflate a narcissistic instinct for self-preservation with moral superiority. Plus they suck the life right out of a party.

For some reason, the evolutionists have not come up with an evolution-based explanation for why human beings react so powerfully to music. But surely they will.

Years later I realised he left sex out when he came to Maslow's list of physiological needs. I don't blame him.

It's really not as bad as it sounds. I was attacked by a shark once, back when I was alive. Well, not so much a shark as a rather large fish. And not so much attacked as looked at menacingly. But it had murder in its eyes, that fish. I knew, in that instant, if our roles had been reversed and the fish had been holding the fishing pole and I had been the one to be caught, it wouldn't hesitate a moment before eating me. So I cooked it and ate before it had a chance to turn the tables.

Sanguine felt the ridiculous urge to reach out and poke him, just to see if he'd react, but he'd seen that kind of anger before. It was the quiet kind. The dangerous kind.

The sparrow flies south for winter.