152 quotes found
“The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice love passion.”
“Passion and prejudice govern the world only under the name of reason.”
“Man is a passion which brings a will into play which works an intelligence.”
“Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves and fibers and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.”
“Inspiration does not come like a bolt nor is it kinetic energy striving but it comes to us slowly and quietly and all the time.”
“You have first an instinct then an opinion then a knowledge as the plant has root bud and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end though you can render no reason.”
“Instinct is a powerful form of natural energy perhaps comparable in humans to electricity or even atomic energy in the mechanical world.”
“But are not this struggle and even the mistakes one may make better and do they not develop us more than if we kept systematically away from emotions?”
“Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses which if given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it in place of dust.”
“We shall keep our horizon perfectly absolutely crystallinely open ready every day for the scouring gales of impulse.”
“Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain but simply points the way.”
“Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right it's ended up not being right.”
