#impulse

So I flirt with disaster once or twice. Who doesn’t?” He snorted. “You don’t just flirt with disaster, you have intercourse with it. ↗

— Dannika Dark

#disaster #flirt #funny #humor #impulse

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#beat #behind #bettered #cheerfully #every

A lot of people go off and have fun adventures, or hard adventures, and their impulse is to write about them right away. What really makes a difference is having some perspective on what happened. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

#adventures #away #difference #fun #go

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

#conception #gives #imagination #impulse #into

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