152 quotes found
“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.”
“Everyone was searching for a formula for survival... and the only formula that worked was no formula. Instinct ... that's all you had to go on.”
“We do not wish ardently for what we desire only through reason.”
“Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.”
“I feel there are two people inside me-me and my intuition. If I go against her she'll screw me every time and if I follow her we get along quite nicely.”
“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.”
“Intuition is given only to him who has undergone long preparation to receive it.”
“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.”
“You must train your intuition-you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say what to decide.”
“We each need to let our intuition guide us and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly.”
“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.”
“A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.”
“The struggle to learn to listen to and respect our own intuitive inner promptings is the greatest challenge of all.”
“Instinct is a powerful form of natural energy perhaps comparable in humans to electricity or even atomic energy in the mechanical world.”
“Cherish your emotions and never undervalue them.”
“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.”
“If you do not express your own original ideas if you do not listen to your own being you will have betrayed yourself.”
“Every human being has like Socrates an attendant spirit and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do it always cautions us what not to do.”
“We shall keep our horizon perfectly absolutely crystallinely open ready every day for the scouring gales of impulse.”
