Quotes About Spontaneity

Sometimes you just have to stop thinking and just go where your heart takes you.

Sometimes we need to stop analyzing the past, stop planning the future, stop figuring out precisely how we feel, stop deciding exactly what we want, and just see what happens.

I need to go do something exciting soon. Tired of everyday being the exact same as the day before.

Don't be predictable. Be a change every time.

Say yes to life be' weird and spontaneous say yes to opportunities and say no to those who think you're crazy.

She would never think of shutting a door and, on the other hand, would no more hesitate to enter a room if the door stood open than would a dog or a cat.

but I must say there's nothing amuses me like a little devilry now and then. Life would be dreadfully monotonous without it.

In a world thronged with monsters and with gods, we know little peace of mind. There is hardly a single action we perform in that phase which we would not give anything, in later life, to be able to annul. Whereas what we ought to regret is that we no longer possess the spontaneity which made us perform them. In later life we look at things in a more practical way, in full conformity with the rest of society, but adolescence is the only period in which we learn anything.

I saw all the male guests take up the similar carnations that were lying by their plates and slip them into the buttonholes of their coats. I did as they had done, with the air of spontaneity that a free-thinker assumes in church, who is not familiar with the order of service but rises when everyone else rises and kneels a moment after everyone else is on his knees.

with the slight emotion which a man feels when, even without being fully aware of what he is doing, he says something, not because it is true but because he enjoys saying it, and listens to his own voice uttering the words as though they came from some one else,

I go to great lengths to be a good mother. I'm constantly revising my attitudes, which detracts from the spontaneity, and I will be judged for it in the future, there's no doubt. You always do badly as a mother, if not because of this, then because of that. The guilt will always be there, no matter what.

I have loved skipping since I was a little girl and I have never been able to restrain myself when an open stretch of sidewalk or path beckons me.

Don't grow up, Urchin, whatever you do. Definitely a bad idea.

The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike must be resolved, a pattern within which men must learn, in return for a variety of elaborate rewards, new forms in which sexual spontaneity is still possible, and women must learn to discipline their receptivity to a thousand other considerations.

There was so much pure fun in the world that it didn't pay to grow up too soon.

Love is a slippery, unruly thing, and trying to control it robs us of its delicious unpredictability.

Behavioral psychologists class intuitive thinkers as creative, alert, confident, informal, spontaneous and independent. Such people are not afraid of their experiences and are open to new challenges. They can live with doubt and uncertainty. This is also a comprehensive profile of extreme risk-takers, in both business and adventure.

The situation would be very much the same if we should place a teacher who, according to our conception of the term, is scientifically prepared, in one of the public schools where the children are repressed in the spontaneous expression of their personality till they are almost like dead beings. In such a school the children, like butterflies mounted on pins, are fastened each to his place, the desk, spreading the useless wings of barren and meaningless knowledge which they have acquired.

The fundamental principle of scientific pedagogy must be, indeed, the liberty of the pupil;–such liberty as shall permit a development of individual, spontanous manifestations of the child's nature. If

We habitually serve children; and this is not only an act of servility toward them, but it is dangerous, since it tends to suffocate their useful, spontaneous activity. We

We cannot know the consequences of suppressing a child's spontaneity when he is just beginning to be active. We may even suffocate life itself. That humanity which is revealed in all its intellectual splendor during the sweet and tender age of childhood should be respected with a kind of religious veneration. It is like the sun which appears at dawn or a flower just beginning to bloom. Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life.

I never did get to brush my teeth this morning, I haven't been able to brush my hair, and I can't unzip my wet suit because I'm only wearing a bikini." Sam laughed. "That's what you get for boarding vessels scantily clad in the middle of the night." He grinned. "I don't suppose it was enough to prevent you from doing it again." "No." She grinned back at him. "I don't suppose it was.

Life without a taste of irrational, of crazy, is a boring book.

We stared at each other for a moment, then burst into laughter that must have scared off every nonhuman animal for half a mile around.