“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.” InspirationalGivingHumansStatesHelpingDesireNaturalHuman BeingsCostFundamentalsInstinctHelping OthersSelfishnessImpulseExceptionUrgesCompassionateReach OutAltruismDominationDemonstrationPathologyGiving To OthersNatural InstinctSelf GivingException To The Rule Author:Lynne McTaggart
“You must have the discipline and temperament to resist your impulses. Human beings have precisely the wrong instincts when it comes to the markets. If you recognise this, you can resist the urge to buy into a rally and sell into a decline. It’s also helpful to remember the power of compounding. You don’t need to stretch for returns to grow your capital over the course of your life.” IfsNeedsHumansRememberCoursesGrowsHuman BeingsReturnDisciplineSellsInstinctImpulseUrgesHelpfulDeclineTemperamentRecognise Author:Irving Kahn
“So the lion is the law-breaker. Just as to the primitive man the lion is the lawbreaker, the great nuisance, dangerous to human beings and to animals, that breaks into the Kraal at night and fetches the bull out of the herd: he is the destructive instinct.” MenHumansLawNightHuman BeingsAnimalBreakDangerousInstinctDestructiveLionsPrimitiveBullsHerdsNuisanceFetchPrimitive ManLaw Breakers Author:Carl Jung
“The instinct for self-deception in human beings makes them try to banish from their minds dangers of which at bottom they are perfectly aware by declaring them non-existent.” TryingMindHumansSelfHuman BeingsDangerInstinctBottomDeceptionSelf DeceptionDeclaring Author:Stefan Zweig
“People have a need for certainty - and that need for certainty is in every human being, certainty that you can avoid pain, certainty that you can at least be comfortable. It's a survival instinct.” PeopleNeedsHumansPainHuman BeingsComfortableSurvivalInstinctCertaintySurvival Instinct Author:Tony Robbins
“In every human being one or the other of these two instincts is predominant: the active or positive instinct to offer hospitality, the negative or passive instinct to accept it. And either of these instincts is so significant of character that one might as well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.” HumansWellsTwoCharacterMightHuman BeingsAcceptingClassMankindOffersNegativeInstinctActiveSignificantHostGuestsPassiveHospitality Book:And Even Now Source: And Even Now
“What I mean by the Muse is that unimpeded clearness of the intuitive powers, which a perfectly truthful adherence to every admonition of the higher instincts would bring to a finely organized human being. It may appear as prophesy or as poesy...should these faculties have free play, I believe they will open up new, deeper and purer sources of joyous inspiration than have as yet refreshed the earth.” ShouldBelieveHumansMayMeanPlayInspirationEarthI BelieveHuman BeingsCreativitySourceHigherInstinctDeeperOrganizedFacultyTruthfulMuseIntuitiveJoyousAdherenceAdmonitionClearnessFree Play Author:Margaret Fuller
“And I thought how sad it was that, for all our sophisticated intellect, for all our noble aspirations, our aggressive behavior was not just similar in many ways to that of the chimpanzees - it was even worse. Worse because human beings have the potential to rise above their baser instincts, whereas chimpanzees probably do not.” WayHumansHuman BeingsBehaviorInstinctIntellectNobleAspirationAggressiveSophisticatedRise AboveChimpanzees Author:Jane Goodall
“Drill and uniforms impose an architecture on the crowd. An army's beautiful. But that's not all; it panders to lower instincts than the aesthetic. The spectacle of human beings reduced to automatism satisfies the lust for power. Looking at mechanized slaves, one fancies oneself a master.” HumansBeautifulHuman BeingsPowerMastersArmySlaveInstinctOneselfCrowdsArchitectureLustFancyAestheticUniformsDrillsLust For Power Book:The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Point counter point Source: The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Point counter point
“Human beings are much better at breaking up than they are at getting together. The instinct to get together is very powerful, but it doesn't last long.” HumansLongTogetherLastsHuman BeingsPowerfulInstinctVery PowerfulGet Together Author:E. Jean Carroll
“I think human beings have a basic instinct to be free and explore their world in their own way. I've always been driven to look at life as something which we should try to plunge into rather than sit back. You have to be able to have fun and keep creating a sense of excitement to how you approach the world.” ThinkingWorldWayShouldTryingHumansLooksAbleFunHuman BeingsApproachCreatingInstinctDrivenHaving FunExcitementPlunge Author:Jack Nicholson
“The charities of life are scattered everywhere, enameling the vales of human beings as the flowers paint the meadows. They are not the fruit of study, nor the privilege of refinement, but a natural instinct.” LifeHumansNaturalHuman BeingsStudyFlowerInstinctCharityFruitPaintPrivilegeMeadowsRefinementNatural Instinct Author:George Bancroft