To live is like to love - all reason is against it and all healthy instinct for it.

Samuel Butler
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  1. 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. - Chitralekha Paul

  2. I would advise a stupid woman always to follow her hsuband - however, a smart woman should rely on her own instincts. - Peter Prange

  3. There are many paths beyond the rules of limited thinking. Trust your instincts! - Bryant McGill

  4. Love alters all. Unblood my instinct, love. - Theodore Roethke

  5. Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own instead of someone else's. - Billy Wilder

More Quotes By Samuel Butler
  1. Prayers are to men as dolls are to children.

  2. All animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

  3. Embryos think with each stage of their development that they have now reached the only condition that really suits them. This, they say, must certainly be their last, inasmuch as its close will be so great a shock that nothing can survive it. Every change...

  4. [P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.

  5. Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

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