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Jb’s Quotes

“Some of the most thrilling things in life are done on impulse.”
― Syrie James, The Missing Manuscript of Jane Austen

tags: friends, friendship, laurel-ann, life, samantha-mcdonough, spontaneity

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“Free will is the cutting edge of Creation, don’t you see? The word spontaneity derives from the Latin sponte, meaning ‘of one’s free will.’ Spontaneity is the impulse, the purest expression of freedom, and the impulse wants to do whatever it wants to do. But you are afraid of what others think, others who are just as afraid of what you think, and so you pussyfoot along the perimeter of the free-will zone, wilting like a wallflower.”
― Tony Vigorito

tags: free-will, freedom, impulse, philosphy, spontaneity, wisdom

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“To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.”
― Bertrand Russell

tags: community, effort, friendship, happiness, spontaneity

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“Being spontaneous is being able to respond with confidence; calmly trusting that, whatever the outcome, you will have a positive if challenging experience that will lead to greater self-awareness and success.”
― Sylvia Clare, Trusting Your Intuition: Rediscover Your True Self to Achieve a Richer, More Rewarding Life

tags: intuition, self-awareness, spontaneity

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“But spontaneity is not by any means a blind, disorderly urge, a mere power of caprice. A philosophy restricted to the alternatives of conventional language has no way of conceiving an intelligence which does not work according to plan, according to a one-at-a-time order of thought. Yet the concrete evidence of such an intelligence is right to hand in our own thoughtlessly ordered bodies. For the Tao does not 'know' how it produces the universe just as we do not 'know' how we construct our brains.”
― Alan Wilson Watts, The Way of Zen

tags: intelligence, philosophy, spontaneity, taoism

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