Quotes by Authors - Page 149

Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.
Dr. Joyce Brothers
Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves and fibers and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.
Oscar Wilde
The conclusions of passion are the only reliable ones.
Søren Kierkegaard
If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen.
Cher
What you intuitively desire that is possible to you.
D.H. Lawrence
To live is like to love: all reason is against it and all healthy instinct is for it.
Samuel Butler
Nothing is impossible when we follow our inner guidance even when its direction may threaten us by reversing our usual logic.
Gerald Jampolsky
Command by instinct is swifter subtler deeper more accurate more in touch with reality than command by conscious mind. The discovery takes one's breath away.
Michael Novak
The brain is not and cannot be the sole or complete organ of thought and feeling.
Antoinette Brown Blackwell
The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body on my intuitional consciousness and when I get a response there then I accept.
D.H. Lawrence
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
Rabindranath Tagore
Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out.
Michael Burke
Ideas pull the trigger but instinct loads the gun.
Don Marquis
We are so clothed in rationalization and dissemblance that we can recognize but dimly the deep primal impulses that motivate us.
James Ramsey Ullman
The shrewd guess the fertile hypothesis the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion-these are the most valuable coin of the thinker at work.
Jerome S. Bruner
Decisions particularly important ones have always made me sleepy perhaps because I know that I will have to make them by instinct and thinking things out is only what other people tell me I should do.
Lillian Hellman
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
Oprah Winfrey
You cannot know what you cannot feel.
Marya Mannes
Trust your hunches. ... Hunches are usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level. Warning! Do not confuse your hunches with wishful thinking. This is the road to disaster.
Dr. Joyce Brothers
I never believe facts Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts except figures.
Sydney Smith
Spontaneity is the quality of being able to do something just because you feel like it at the moment of trusting your instincts of taking yourself by surprise and snatching from the clutches of your well-organized routine a bit of unscheduled pleasure.
Richard Iannelli
Every human being has like Socrates an attendant spirit and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do it always cautions us what not to do.
Lydia M. Child
If you do not express your own original ideas if you do not listen to your own being you will have betrayed yourself.
Rollo May
Once you get rid of the idea that you must please other people before you please yourself and you begin to follow your own instincts-only then can you be successful. You become more satisfied and when you are other people tend to be satisfied by what you do.
Raquel Welch
The struggle to learn to listen to and respect our own intuitive inner promptings is the greatest challenge of all.
Herb Goldberg
We each need to let our intuition guide us and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly.
Shakti Gawain
Everyone was searching for a formula for survival... and the only formula that worked was no formula. Instinct ... that's all you had to go on.
Carolyn Kenmore
If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct your life will be safe expedient and thin.
Katharine Butler Hathaway
Instinct is the nose of the mind.
Madame de Girardin
It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life.
Katharine Butler Hathaway
Every time you don't follow your inner guidance you feel a loss of energy loss of power a sense of spiritual deadness.
Shakti Gawain
Intuition ... appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.
Dr. Alexis Carrel
It is our business to go as we are impelled.
D.H. Lawrence
Trusting our intuition often saves us from disaster.
Anne Wilson Schaef
By learning to contact listen to and act on our intuition we can directly connect to the higher power of the universe and allow it to become our guiding force.
Shakti Gawain
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
All I can do is act according to my deepest instinct and be whatever I must be-crazy or ribald or sad or compassionate or loving or indifferent. That is all anybody can do.
Katharine Butler Hathaway
The trouble is that not enough people have come together with the firm determination to live the things which they say they believe.
Eleanor Roosevelt
To have character is to be big enough to take life on.
Mary Caroline Richards
Conviction without experiences makes for harshness.
Flannery O'Connor
Inspiration and genius - one and the same.
Victor Hugo
A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.
Anatole France
It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.
Sir William Blackstone
Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbours.
Henry David Thoreau
The innocent is the person who explains nothing.
Albert Camus
There is but one blasphemy and that is injustice.
Anonymous
Brutes leave ingratitude to man.
Walter Colton
A woman is more influenced by what she divines than by what she is told.
Ninon de l'Enclos
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do do it with thy might.
Anonymous
Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
Alice Hawthorne
Most of us have no real loves and no real hatreds. Blessed is love less blessed is hatred but thrice accursed is that indifference which is neither one nor the other.
Mark Rutherford
Once conform once do what others do because they do it and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
Michel de Montaigne
Hate is not the opposite of love apathy is.
Rollo May
Communists have committed great crimes but at least they have not stood aside like an established society and been indifferent. I would rather have blood on my hands than water like Pilate.
Graham Greene
I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine: Every man for himself and God for us all.
Miguel de Cervantes
I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than to be crowded on a velvet cushion.
Henry David Thoreau
Never let me hear that foolish word again.
Mirabeau
Take up the white man's burden - Send forth the best ye breed - Go bind your sons to exile To serve your captives' need.
Rudyard Kipling
Never did Christ utter a single word attesting to a personal resurrection and a life beyond the grave.
Leo Tolstoy
There is no death! the stars go down to rise upon some fairer shore.
John L. McCreery