#spontaneity

To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#effort #friendship #happiness #spontaneity #friendship

When spontaneous demoralizing thoughts seep into your conscience, don't trip...allowing them to fester. These are random tests of your conviction and determination. Large or small, your reaction to such intrusions is a defining moment for which no one else, but you, can mitigate. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#conscience #conviction #demoral #determination #intrusion

It was tragic how life had sucked her down to the bones, all her spontaneity her laughter and freedom had vanished. I knew then that I didn't ever want to be like that. Whatever happened, life was something too precious to give up on so easily. ↗

— Belinda Jeffrey

#give-up #laughter #life #precious #spontaneity

The fun stuff comes when someone is not so strict on sticking to the script. You're allowed the spontaneity, and great moments can happen. ↗

— Jennifer Aniston

#comes #fun #fun stuff #great #great moments

For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state. ↗

— Adam Johnson

#actions #censored #change #character #dangerous

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#flour #grain #ground #into #kills

I think you should ride the line between fatigue and chaos. The chaos keeps the energy level and spontaneity maximized, while fatigue is just over the edge, and you should try to avoid it. ↗

— Ted Nugent

#between #chaos #edge #energy #energy level

I came together with younger musicians and tried to pass on my own experiences. In the process, I always tried to maintain my curiosity and spontaneity. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#came #curiosity #experiences #i #i always

The essence of pleasure is spontaneity. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#pleasure #spontaneity

Wheels have been set in motion, and they have their own pace, to which we are...condemned. Each move is dictated by the previous one - that is the meaning of order. If we start being arbitrary it'll just be a shambles: at least, let us hope so. Because if we happened, just happened to discover, or even suspect, that our spontaneity was part of their order, we'd know that we were lost. A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynasty - and, by which definition, a philosopher - dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never quite sure that he was not a butterfly dreaming it was a Chinese philosopher. Envy him; his two-fold security. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#order #spontaneity #dreams