91 Quotes About Impulse

The way most people use and are used by their minds gives substance to the belief that we are barely evolved apes.

More important than an impulse is the force field generated behind it. The impulse exists through the force field beyond the moment. For example, if you marry someone.

I just do things I like. I don't think about it.

When there is silence, Give your voice. When there is darkness, Shine your light. When there is desperation, Offer hope.

Because I know it in my bones. You are the only female I desire, the only water that will quench my thirst, the only sun that will warm my skin, the only lips that were made for mine.

A small instance from your personal life can drive your actions throughout life.

Sexuality with all its attendant yearnings and pains, jealousies and taboos, is the most disturbing impulse humans have.

She did it without thinking--At that moment she was pure Gilly again: red-haired, with fury for blood, perfect aim, and nothing to lose.

Poetry arises from the desire to get beyond the finite and the historical—the human world of violence and difference—and to reach the transcendent or divine. You're moved to write a poem, you feel called upon to sing, because of that transcendent impulse. But as soon as you move from that impulse to the actual poem, the song of the infinite is compromised by the finitude of its terms.