Quotes About Impulses

Then the One, that was hidden in the shell, Was born through the force of fiery torment. From it there arose in the beginning love,170 Which is the germ and the seed of knowledge. The wise found the root of being in not-being By investigating the impulses of the human heart.

To the objective observer it is perfectly clear that the fantasies were products of a psychic energy not under the control of the conscious mind. They were longings, impulses, and symbolic happenings which it was quite unable to cope with either positively or negatively.

I'm highly aware that some impulses are harder to ignore than others. I'm aware that fear of consequences causes us to guard our secrets. But it's our actions when faced with temptation that define who we are. It's our courage in admitting what we've done wrong that makes us forgivable.

If there is such a thing as platonic love between a man and a woman it is the result of a profound misunderstanding, a stifling of their true and authentic impulses.

Now how I play a part, as an individual, in the foreseen course of history, I don't know. Perhaps I have no definite part, since the Plan leaves individuals to indeterminacy and free will. But I am important and they—they, you understand—may at least have calculated my probable reaction. So I distrust my impulses, my desires, my probable reactions.

Aprendió a desviar los impulsos de violencia, que a veces se apoderaban de ellos como tormentas pasajeras, y no la asustaban la avaricia o las manías persecutorias que algunos sufrían como consecuencia de la soledad.

The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly, I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.

People unconsciously want to reveal their inner urges.

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

Your business in life is, presumably to achieve success. To be successful, you must find peace of mind, acquire the material needs of life, and above all, attain HAPPINESS. All of these evidences of success begin in the form of thought impulses.

Every move, every act, and every thought of every human being is influenced by one or more of the nine basic motives.

Cold reasoning has no influence whatsoever on the subconscious mind. The subconscious responds only to the impulses of thought that have been emotionalized or mixed with strong feelings.

Remember that people are motivated to buy or not to buy, through their feelings. Much of what they believe to be their own feelings consist of thought impulses they have unconsciously picked up from the messages sent out by the salesperson.

Since procrastination is a message from our natural willpower via low motivation, the cure is changing the environment, or one's profession, by selecting one in which one does not have to fight one's impulses. Few can grasp the logical consequence that, instead, one should lead a life in which procrastination is good, as a naturalistic-risk-based form of decision making.

So many instincts drive us.

Since procrastination is a message from our natural willpower via low motivation, the cure is changing the environment, or one's profession, by selecting one in which one does not have to fight one's impulses.

These impulses to buy new things that will eventually lose their novelty

It all came back to human time and utterly human impulses: in the end, gods did not appreciate godlike power, but humans did.

Live by your impulses, and you'll be just like them. You're better than that, aren't you, Red?

In Tar Baby , the classic concept of the individual with a solid, coherent identity is eschewed for a model of identity which sees the individual as a kaleidoscope of heterogeneous impulses and desires, constructed from multiple forms of interaction with the world as a play of difference that cannot be completely comprehended.

The reason mindfulness skills work so well in depression is that they help you create a space between you and your thoughts and impulses. This allows you to pick approach behaviors instead of avoidance behaviors.

Evil thoughts come free

One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.

To be faithful to your instincts and the impulses that carry you in the direction of the excellence you most desire and value ... surely that is to lead the noble life.