Top Impulses Quotes
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.
Sydney J. Harris
I many no longer depend on pleasant impulses to bring me before the Lord. I must rather response to principles I know to be right, whether I feel them to be enjoyable or not.
Jim Elliot
If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors.
Hans Kung
Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.
Daniel Goleman
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Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.
Elie Wiesel 
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When you become successful on the level that Fleetwood Mac did, it gives you financial freedom, which should allow you to follow your impulses. But oddly enough, they become much harder to follow.
Lindsey Buckingham
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The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.
Walter Benjamin
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Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.
Eric Hoffer
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Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses, which if given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it, in place of dust.
Henry S. Haskins
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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.
Albert Einstein
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Dark impulses certainly exist in me and, I think, in most people.
Stephen Hopkins
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Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.
Sigmund Freud
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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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Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
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Mason CooleyAlbert EinsteinEric HofferHenry MillerSigmund FreudMarshall McLuhanGore VidalGustav MahlerSydney J. HarrisNathaniel HawthorneWilliam J. ClintonDanny ElfmanElie WieselWalter BenjaminLindsey Buckingham
Franz SchubertHans KungDaniel GolemanHans HofmannStephen HopkinsCharles Maurice de TalleyrandNelson A. MilesFrancis WrightEdna St. Vincent MillayJack LevineJudy ChicagoVan Wyck BrooksJim ElliotEgon SchieleKenneth Clark
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