“Love is something difficult and it is more difficult than other things because in other conflicts nature herself enjoins men to collect themselves, to take themselves firmly in the hand with all their strength, while in the heightening of love the impulse is to give oneself wholly away.” MenGivingHandsDifficultLove IsConflictOneselfImpulse Book:Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations Source: Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations
“Creativity is an attempt to resolve a conflict generated by unexpressed biological impulses, such that unfulfilled desires are the driving force of the imagination, and they fuel our dreams and daydreams.” DreamDesireForceImaginationCreativityConflictDrivingImpulseFuelResolveOur DreamsDaydreamingDriving ForceUnfulfilled Desires Author:Sigmund Freud
“I feel a little as if the Buddhism is creeping back, but I mention all this simply in order to illustrate that there is, in my life, a fundamental sense of conflict between something that I am calling 'Buddhism' and my creative impulse.” IfsFeelsLittlesOrderCreativeBuddhismCallingConflictFundamentalsImpulse Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“Mr. Donald Trump talking about the US Mexican border, he's not doing anything new or unusual. It's something that's very much in the air and perhaps always has been. The Great Wall of China has been there for a great long time. People have always tried to keep foreigners out. There is a very natural desire, once you've got somewhere cozy, to keep it to yourself, and equally there's a very strong impulse for those who are not at such a safe and prosperous place to try and get in. It's been creating conflict throughout human history.” PeopleTryingLongDesireStrongNaturalWallConflictImpulseUnusualVery StrongMexicanProsperous Author:Lucy Hughes-Hallett
“All of my own impulses to balance and move seemed to conflict with those of the guards, and I was jerked and jostled down the portico, just as graceful as a sick cat.” MovingMy OwnBalanceConflictCatSickImpulse Book:The Thief Source: The Thief