Best desire & impulse Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The world that we must seek is a world in which the creative spirit is alive, in which life is an adventure full of joy and hope, based rather upon the impulse to construct than upon the desire to retain what we possess or to seize what is possessed by others.”

World Life Is Joy Spirit Desire Creative Alive Adventure Impulse Possessed Constructs Life Is An Adventure Creative Spirit

Book:Roads to Freedom

Source: Roads to Freedom

“A poet feels the impulse to create a work of art when the passive awe provoked by an event is transformed into a desire to express that awe in a rite of worship.”

Feels Art Desire Creativity Events Poet Worship Impulse Awe Works Of Art Transformed Passive Rite Provoked

Author:W. H. Auden

“Agriculture is for living; mind culture is for life. Skills are for shaping material things so that they cater more for the comfort of man; studies are for shaping attitudes, feelings, desires, emotions and impulses of man, so that they may confer more peace, more joy and more fortitude on man.”

Men Mind May Feelings Joy Desire Culture Emotion Attitude Study Materials Comfort Skills Impulse Agriculture Fortitude Material Things Life Skills

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“One of the fundamental demonstrations of our natural instinct to Bond with each other is a will to give. Rather than domination, our most basic urge is to reach out to another human being, even at a cost to ourselves. Giving to others-the urge to empathize, to be compassionate, and to help others altruistically-is not the exception to the rule, but our natural state of being. Our impulse to connect with each other has developed an automatic desire to do for others, even at personal cost. Altruism comes naturally to us. It is selfishness that is culturally conditioned and a sign of pathology.”

“The idea of duty, that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self, is to the moral life what the addition of a great central ganglion is to animal life. No man can begin to mould himself on a faith or an idea without rising to a higher order of experience: a principle of subordination, of self-mastery, has been introduced into his nature; he is no longer a mere bundle of impressions, desires, and impulses.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

“It is a mere illusion that, above a certain income, the personal desires will be satisfied and leave a wider margin for the generous impulse.”

Desire Certain Wealth Illusion Mere Income Satisfied Impulse Generous Margins Personal Desire

Book:Familiar Studies of Men and Books: Stevenson's Vol. 16

Source: Familiar Studies of Men and Books: Stevenson's Vol. 16

“Chacun peut e prouver en soi ce double mouvement: de s ir de s'inte grer a' la socie te , besoin de se re aliser par soi-me" me en dehors d'elle. We all have this double impulse within ourselves: the desire to integrate into society, and the need to fulfil ourselves outside of it, through our own efforts.”

Needs Desire Effort Impulse Integrating Irs

Author:Nathalie Sarraute

“When you come to analyze the love of money which was the general impulse to effort in your day, you find that the dread of want and desire of luxury was but one of several motives which the pursuit of money represented; the others, and with many the more influential, being desire of power, of social position, and reputation for ability and success.”

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Book:Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887: American literature

Source: Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887: American literature

“When we think carefully, we see that the brief elation we experience when appeasing sensual impulses may not be very different from what the drug addict feels when indulging his or her habit. Temporary relief is soon followed by a craving for more. And in just the same way that taking drugs in the end only causes trouble, so, too, does much of what we undertake to fulfill our immediate sensory desires.”

Source: Ancient Wisdom, Modern World: Ethics for the New Millennium

“What is the relationship between spirituality and ethical practice? Since love and compassion and similar qualities all, by definition, presume some level of concern for others' well-being, they presume ethical restraint. We cannot be loving and compassionate unless at the same time we curb our own harmful impulses and desires.”

Source: The Essence Of Wisdom

“Sexual integrity means honestly recognizing our own impulses and desires and honoring them, whether or not we choose to act on them. If we value integrity, we must also value diversity in sexual expression and orientation, recognizing that there is no one truth, or one way, that fits everyone.Sexuality is sacred because through it we make a connection with another self - but it is misused and perverted when it becomes an arena of power-over, a means of treating another - or oneself - as an object.”

Ifs Way Mean Self Desire Values Objects Expression Fit Integrity Diversity Connections Sacred Oneself Sexuality Honestly One Way Impulse Recognizing Arena Orientation Misused

Book:Dreaming the Dark

Source: Dreaming the Dark

“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.”

World Play Form Desire Literature Individual Differences Identity Baby Models Concepts Impulse Classic Interaction Multiple Kaleidoscope

Author:Toni Morrison

“Led on by impulse, and blind and ungovernable desires.”

Desire Blind Impulse

Author:Juvenal

“The impulse to share the lives of the poor, the desire to make social service, irrespective of propaganda, express the spirit of Christ, is as old as Christianity itself.”

Spirit Desire Social Christ Poor Christianity Share Impulse Propaganda Social Service

Book:The Jane Addams Reader

Source: The Jane Addams Reader

“The Bhagavad-Gita calls on humanity to dedicate body, mind and soul to pure duty and not to become mental voluptuaries at the mercy of random desires and undisciplined impulses.”

Mind Soul Body Desire Humanity Duty Pure Mercy Impulse Gita Undisciplined Mind Body And Soul

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“I felt that I could swim for miles, out into the ocean: a desire for freedom, an impulse to move, tugged at me as though it were a thread fastened to my chest. It was an impulse I knew well, and I had learned that it was not the summons from a larger world I used to believe it to be. It was simply a desire to escape from what I had.”

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Book:Outline

Source: Outline

“Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they are most swayed and in which they show absence of control...They are changeable and fickle in their desires which are violent while they last, but quickly over: their impulses are keen but not deep rooted.”

Men Shows Lasts Young Desire Passion Strong Absence Violent Impulse Young Man Rooted Fickle Strong Passion

Book:Rhetoric

Source: Rhetoric

“What is desire?-- The impulse to make someone else complete? That woman would set sodden straw on fire.”

Desire Fire Impulse Straws

Book:The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke

Source: The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke

“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.”

Desire Values Excellence Instinct Noble Impulse Faithful Being Faithful

Book:Selected letters of George Edward Woodberry

Source: Selected letters of George Edward Woodberry

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