In the name of being social, we learn to ignore our natural instinct. Society keeps dictating do's and don'ts which we keep obeying day in and day out.
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Chitralekha Paul
I would advise a stupid woman always to follow her hsuband - however, a smart woman should rely on her own instincts.
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Peter Prange
There are many paths beyond the rules of limited thinking. Trust your instincts!
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Bryant McGill
Love alters all. Unblood my instinct, love.
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Theodore Roethke
Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own instead of someone else's.
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Billy Wilder
More Quotes By Brenda Ueland
I learned...that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with...
Everybody is original, if he tells the truth, if he speaks from himself. But it must be from his *true* self and not from the self he thinks he *should* be.
...at last I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had.
...the best way to know the Truth or Beauty is to try to express it. And what is the purpose of existence Here or Yonder but to discover truth and beauty and express it, i.e., share it with others?
(about William Blake)As for Blake's happiness--a man who knew him said: "If asked whether I ever knew among the intellectual, a happy man, Blake would be the only one who would immediately occur to me." And yet this creative power in Blake did not come...
