Impetus Quotes

“...[I]f I don't get going soon, the whole impetus may die---and if that happens, well, I really shall consider a long, restful plunge into insanity. Sometimes the abyss yawns very attractively.”

“...[I]f I don't get going soon, the whole impetus may die---and if that happens, well, I really shall consider a long, restful plunge into insanity. Sometimes the abyss yawns very attractively.”

“While people argue with one another about the specifics of Freud's work and blame him for the prejudices of his time, they overlook the fundamental truth of his writing, his grand humility: that we frequently do not know our own motivations in life and are prisoners to what we cannot understand. We can recognize only a small fragment of our own, and an even smaller fragment of anyone else's, impetus.”

“Your joy can be the impetus that motivates others to find their way to joy.”

“Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change.”

“The joy which answers to prayer give, cannot be described; and the impetus which they afford to the spiritual life is exceedingly great.”

“While the big events of our lives create the impetus for change, it is the moment-by- moment choices that mold and shape us.”

“I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.”

“Grief is not very different from illness: in the impetus of its fire it does not recognise lords, it does not fear colleagues, it does not respect or spare anyone, not even it”

“The impetus to grow and live intensely is so powerful in me I cannot resist it. I will work, I will love my husband, but I will fulfill myself.”

“The act of creation, the impetus to undertake it, is always some kind of feeble attempt to understand one’s own creation, the nature of creation itself.”