#impulse

At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side, and the ignorant rejection of theory altogether on the other side, are beginning to be seen as both alike unjustified. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#altogether #beginning #both #crude #day

You know you love something if you're willing to die for it, and you know it means nothing if you walk away from that which is dying. ↗

— Anthony Liccione

#give-all #impulse #instinct #love #sacrifice

The vampire craze is kind of fascinating. We're interested in the idea of immorality and I think we're drawn to people or creatures who can give in to those base impulses and just be bad and not feel bad about it. ↗

— Benjamin Walker

#bad #base #creatures #drawn #fascinating

A collection of good books, with a soul to it in the shape of a librarian, becomes a vitalized power among the impulses by which the world goes on to improvement. ↗

— Justin Winsor

#becomes #books #collection #goes #good

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#impulse #pass #second #wait

She encouraged any artistic impulse I had, and my father discouraged any artistic impulse I had. They took out their problems with each other on me and my sister. ↗

— Bill Griffith

#artistic #discouraged #each #encouraged #father

I don't think of sex as a self-destructive impulse. ↗

— Thom Gunn

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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

#even #harmless #impulses #most #poisonous

I have a suicide impulse. ↗

— Hal Holbrook

#impulse #suicide

When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

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