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“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

“Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.”

Way Dream Spirit Evil Understanding My Own Deals Understood Responsible Inspired Oneself Aliens Impulse

Book:Collected Papers

Source: Collected Papers

“Spirit of Beauty, whose sweet impulses, flung like rose of dawn across the sea, alone can flush the exalted consciousness with shafts of sensible divinity-light of the world, essential loveliness.”

World Light Spirit Consciousness Beauty Sea Sweet Essentials Rose Impulse Dawn Divinity Sensible Exalted Loveliness Light Of The World

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“The Great Story of our immense journey contains crucial lessons for guiding humanity safely through the dangers and confusions evident today. This grand epic will propel us forward in a spirit of expectant curiosity. We will place our trust not only in the Whole but also in our own species' capacity to serve as the vessel through which the evolutionary impulse is most active at this time.”

Source: Thank God for Evolution: How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will Transform Your Life and Our World

“If children had teachers for judgment and eloquence just as they have for languages, if their memory was exercised less than their energy or their natural genius, if instead of deadening their vivacity of mind we tried to elevate the free scope and impulse of their souls, what might not result from a fine disposition? As it is, we forget that courage, or love of truth and glory are the virtues that matter most in youth; and our one endeavour is to subdue our children's spirits, in order to teach them that dependence and suppleness are the first laws of success in life.”

“The human spirit sublimates the impulses it thwarts; a healthy sex life mitigates the lust for other sports.”

Humans Spirit Sex Sports Healthy Lust Impulse Human Spirit

Author:Piet Pieterszoon Hein

“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 martial spirit is never dead. It sleeps through fortunate generations, but it wakes up very quickly to the toot of a fife. There's that roistering spirit in men which leads them to think a good fight is a lark - until they've been in one. And the impulse to fight for your own incarnation of an ideal.”

Thinking Men Spirit Fighting Sleep Generations Ideals Wake Up Impulse Fortunate Incarnation Good Fight Larks

Book:Within this Present

Source: Within this Present

“God never estimates what we give from impulse. We are given credit for what we determine in our hearts to give; for the giving that is governed by a fixed determination. The Spirit of God revolutionises our philanthropic instincts. Much of our philanthropy is simply the impulse to save ourselves an uncomfortable feeling. The Spirit of God alters all that. As saints our attitude towards giving is that we give for Jesus Christ's sake, and from no other motive.”

Source: The Quotable Oswald Chambers