#impulse

Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse. ↗

If we dismiss from our minds the prejudice we may have against the Indians we shall be able to more clearly understand the impulses that govern both races. ↗

— Nelson A. Miles

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One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses. ↗

— Henry Miller

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What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct. ↗

— Ovid

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If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force? ↗

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

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There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work. ↗

— Dennis Potter

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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. ↗

— William James

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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

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