#instincts

Gut instincts were supposed to be the most trustworthy and it was in her gut where she felt the butterflies. The heart had its purpose as a blood pumping muscle, but love...love blossomed and sparked through the body - originating from the gut. ↗

— Nikki Jefford

#follow-your-gut #gut-instincts #love #nikki-jefford #love

Man has no automatic code of survival. His particular distinction from all other living species is the necessity to act in the face of alternatives by means of volitional choice. He has no automatic knowledge of what is good for him or evil, what values his life depends on, what course of action it requires. Are you prattling about an instinct of self-preservation? An instinct of self-preservation is precisely what man does not possess. An 'instinct' in as unerring and automatic form of knowledge. A desire is not an instinct. A desire to live does not give you the knowledge required for living. And even man's desire to live is not automatic: your secret evil today is that that is the desire you do not hold. Your fear of death is not a love of life and will not give you the knowledge needed to keep it. Man must obtain his knowledge and choose his actions by a process of thinking, which nature will not force him to perform. Man has the power to act as his own destroyer--and that is the way he has acted through most of history. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#human-nature #instincts #life #man #thought

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

#creativity #hope #instincts #more #never

It has taken a great deal of energy, which has not been so difficult to summon as the necessary patience to wait, simply wait much of the time - until my instincts assured me that I had assembled my materials in proper order for a final welding into their natural form. ↗

— Hart Crane

#assured #been #deal #difficult #energy

Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#drunk #facts #fighting #ignorant #instincts

There was nothing in all Douglas's powerful effort that appealed to the higher instincts of human nature, while Lincoln always touched sympathetic cords. Lincoln's speech excited and sustained the enthusiasm of his audience to the end. ↗

— Henry Villard

#appealed #audience #cords #douglas #effort

On the one hand, people think they own kids; they feel that they have the right to tell the kids what to do. On the other hand, people envy kids. We'd like to be kids our whole lives. Kids get to do what they do. They live on their instincts. ↗

— David Duchovny

#feel #get #hand #instincts #kids

Stick to your instincts. ↗

— Tina Weymouth

#stick #your

Apart from Scottish traditional music, I wasn't really influenced by any kind of music. I just basically followed my own instincts. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

#apart #basically #followed #i #influenced

If there's one thing above all that sets me apart from Tony Blair it is this - I am not embarrassed to articulate the instincts of the British people. ↗

— William Hague

#am #apart #articulate #blair #british