#impulse

Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#impulse #law #love #love is #mere

Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good. ↗

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

#first #good #impulses #mistrust #nearly

Everything at some point has been declared the root of all evil. ↗

— Criss Jami

#bad #beginning #clever #confusion #declaration

The three-year-old who lies about taking a cookie isn't really a liar after all. He simply can't control his impulses. He then convinces himself of a new truth and, eager for your approval, reports the version that he knows will make you happy. ↗

— Cathy Rindner Tempelsman

#after #approval #control #convinces #cookie

Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own. ↗

— Robert Collier

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The narrative impulse is always with us; we couldn't imagine ourselves through a day without it. ↗

— Robert Coover

#day #imagine #impulse #narrative #ourselves

Secular humanists suspect there is something more gloriously human about resisting the religious impulse; about accepting the cold truth, even if that truth is only that the universe is as indifferent to us as we are to it. ↗

— Tom Flynn

#accepting #cold #even #gloriously #human

...impulses are flowing through my brain - primal sparks leaping gaps - all so I can put my arms around you... ↗

— John Geddes

#love #primal #love

There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead. ↗

— Greta Garbo

#am #difficult #get #get married #go

The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment. ↗

— Daniel Bell

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