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  • Spontaneous love admits errors, hesitations and human failings. It can be tested and repaired. -- Nancy Friday
  • All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience. -- Henry Miller
  • Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility. -- William Wordsworth
  • Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit. -- e. e. cummings
  • No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters. -- Edgar Degas
  • I am neither spontaneous nor ready for anything. -- David Rakoff
  • Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either. -- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
  • The way to my heart is by being truthful and spontaneous. -- Michelle Trachtenberg
  • The best is that which is most spontaneous or seemingly so. -- Isamu Noguchi
  • Dismiss thoughts of 'good, bad, right, wrong, success, failure' - be spontaneous. -- Joshua L. Goldberg
  • I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. -- Edward Abbey
  • We are born charming fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society. -- Judith Martin
  • My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved. -- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
  • The spontaneous is the most beautiful thing that can appear in a picture, but nothing in art appears less spontaneously than that. -- Jeff Wall
  • To be spontaneous means not to act out of the past, because out of the past is all cunningness, cleverness, calculation, arithmetic. -- Rajneesh
  • I do not want to believe in God. Therefore I choose to believe in that which I know is scientifically impossible, spontaneous generation leading to evolution. -- George Wald
  • When the entire process becomes a prescribed ritual that does not allow for spontaneous variations and reactions, the vitality of the medium and our relation to it suffers. -- Jerry Uelsmann
  • Most modern biologists, having reviewed with satisfaction the downfall of the spontaneous generation hypothesis, yet unwilling to accept the alternative belief in special creation, are left with nothing. -- George Wald
  • Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. -- Lao Tzu
  • One has only to contemplate the magnitude of this task to concede that the spontaneous generation of a living organism is impossible. Yet here we are-as a result, I believe, of spontaneous generation. -- George Wald
  • Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. he whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you. -- Samuel Johnson
  • Do not be afraid that too much labour over the composition is going to kill the spontaneity. Those who absorb and digest their experiences are, of a sudden, mountains of strength and can produce pictures with spontaneous start and finish. -- John F. Carlson
  • That is a big danger, losing your inspiration. When I work in film and television I try to do each take a little differently. I never want to do the same thing twice, because then you're not being spontaneous, you're just recreating something. -- Karl Urban
  • What would happen if you melted? You know, you never really hear this talked about much, but spontaneous combustion? It exists!...[people] burn from within...sometimes theyll be in a wooden chair and the chair wont burn, but therell be nothing left of the person. Except sometimes his teeth. Or the heart. No one speaks about this, but its for real. -- Keanu Reeves
  • Spontaneous dates are the best. -- Elizabeth Tan
  • Spontaneous combustion of grassroots politics is the future. -- Dick Morris
  • Spontaneous is what you get after the seventeenth draft. -- John Ciardi
  • Spontaneous kindness is to hipsters as high beams are to deer. -- Jeph Jacques
  • Spontaneous combustion IS a form of harm, Mr. D," Chiron put in. -- Rick Riordan
  • Find Eloy. Smack his head into a wall, dance on his guts... I'd get creative. Spontaneous like. -- Kim Harrison
  • By 17, I had a whole band that would go in and play. It was called Spontaneous Inventions, after a Bobby McFerrin album. -- Brian McKnight
  • Spontaneous insanity is the real bliss! It's sad that we are honored for playing sane, serious, safe, miserable and controlling in this poor world. -- Saurabh Sharma
  • The fascination of what's difficult Has dried the sap out of my veins, and rent Spontaneous joy and natural content Out of my heart. -- William Butler Yeats
  • Spontaneous actions of individuals, aiming at nothing else than at the improvement of their own state of satisfaction, undermined the prestige of the coercive status system step by step. -- Ludwig von Mises
  • Kosovo is too close to Europe. It is not only close to Albania, it is close to Greece, Italy, Germany and Switzerland, where there are still many Kosovo refugees. Spontaneous reactions could multiply. -- Fatos Nano
  • The boy may wrestle, when Night--working Fancy steals him to the arms Of nymph oft wish'd awake, and, 'mid the rage Of the soft tumult, ev'ry turgid cell Spontaneous disembogues its lucid store, Bland and of azure tinct. -- John Armstrong
  • Very honest, I hope. God, I don't know. I hope I'm fun, I hope I am a good time. Spontaneous, surprising, affectionate? I hope, kind. Dancing a lot of dancing. I insist upon dancing. Anywhere. Anytime. The more dancing, the better -- Tom Hiddleston
  • I think that sexuality is only attractive when it's natural and spontaneous. -- Marilyn Monroe
  • Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire. -- Arnold H. Glasow
  • Genuine happiness comes from within, and often it comes in spontaneous feelings of joy. -- Andrew Weil
  • I am interested in personal stories because that's when people become expressive, spontaneous and heartfelt. -- Anna Deavere Smith
  • Never say never. The things that you don't plan are the best. I'm a very spontaneous person. -- Lindsay Lohan
  • As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction. -- Stan Getz
  • Ultimately spiritual awareness unfolds when you're flexible, when you're spontaneous, when you're detached, when you're easy on yourself and easy on others. -- Deepak Chopra
  • I dress how I feel. I just go off emotion. I can't prepare my outfit a day before. Everything I wear is spontaneous. -- ASAP Rocky
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  • Globally the Greens have arisen like a spontaneous combustion, a reaction to the narrow-minded state-backed exploitation of resources and wealth for a few at the expense of the many. -- Bob Brown
  • I used to be afraid of pain, didn't take a lot of risks, especially in love. I'm not as afraid anymore. I'm more spontaneous, more likely to say what I think. -- Melody Beattie
  • Courage and willingness to just go for it, whether it is a conversation or a spontaneous trip or trying new things that are scary - it is a really attractive quality. -- Alanis Morissette
  • Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. -- Lao Tzu
  • Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever. -- George Orwell
  • Human rights will be a powerful force for the transformation of reality when they are not simply understood as externally defined norms of behavior but are lived as the spontaneous manifestation of internalized values. -- Daisaku Ikeda
  • I've always been spontaneous and outgoing... I've tried lots of things so I've got some good life experiences, which is great 'cause it means I've got lots of material to work with as an actor. -- Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Real laughter is spontaneous. Like water from the spring it bubbles forth a creation of mingled action and spontaneity - two magic potions in themselves - the very essence of laughter - the unrestrained emotion within us! -- Douglas Fairbanks
  • Being in a multicultural environment in childhood is going to give you intuition, reflexes and instincts. You may acquire basic responsiveness later on, but it's never going to be as spontaneous as when you have been bathing in this environment during childhood. -- Carlos Ghosn
  • I'm the kind of person who just can't wait to get on a train and not know where I'm going. I definitely want to live life to the fullest. And that's the type of man I'm attracted to - somebody with that spontaneous spirit. -- Summer Altice
  • If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks. -- Maria Montessori
  • Hound Dog' took like twelve minutes. That's not a complicated piece of work. But the rhyme scheme was difficult. Also the metric structure of the music was not easy. 'Kansas City' was maybe eight minutes, if that. Writing the early blues was spontaneous. You can hear the energy in the work. -- Jerry Leiber
  • I always work only with friends, but it must be about them and myself. Because I film only very personal moments, nothing preplanned, staged or written, it has to be real and spontaneous. Some of them have become famous, some are not yet famous, some will never be famous. But they are all my friends. -- Jonas Mekas
  • I'm very spontaneous. -- Patti LaBelle
  • Pity's tears are spontaneous. -- Anna Cora Mowatt
  • O sweet spontaneous earth -- e. e. cummings
  • Nurture the spontaneous peaceful life. -- Laozi
  • Plan to be spontaneous tomorrow. -- Steven Wright
  • Fine conduct is always spontaneous. -- Seneca the Younger
  • Any damn fool can be spontaneous. -- Ezra Pound
  • You can't be spontaneous within reason. -- Brittany DeLaBarrera
  • Being spontaneous, it's what saved me, -- Natalia Makarova
  • I'm so bad at spontaneous impressions. -- Ana Gasteyer
  • My choices in films are spontaneous. -- Nicole Kidman
  • All things in God are spontaneous. -- Gottfried Leibniz
  • You must plan to be spontaneous. -- David Hockney
  • I am more spontaneous than my character. -- Gillian Anderson
  • Everything I do is usually totally spontaneous. -- Ritchie Blackmore
  • We need more spontaneous compassion and charity. -- Glenn L. Pace
  • I always wanted to be a spontaneous composer. -- Charles Mingus
  • Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions. -- Steve Jobs
  • Compassion is the spontaneous wisdom of the heart. -- Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
  • True popular ballads are the spontaneous products of nature. -- Francis James Child
  • They don't call me spontaneous and irreverant for nothing. -- Kathie Lee Gifford
  • Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront. -- Edward Abbey
  • Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. -- Samuel Johnson
  • It all must start with an inspired, spontaneous idea. -- Raymond Loewy
  • The key to spontaneous wit is an unburdened mind. -- Darwin Ortiz
  • Consciousness is, among other things, a spontaneous exercise in creativity. -- Seth
  • Let your heart go out in spontaneous and immeasurable compassion. -- Sogyal Rinpoche
  • Be spontaneous, be truthful, be free, and thus be individuals! -- Lydia M. Child
  • Playing Arnie was fun because everything I did was spontaneous. -- Leonardo DiCaprio
  • I studied harmony and composition in a very spontaneous manner. -- Alejo Carpentier
  • It's a matter of keeping people on a spontaneous edge. -- John Zorn
  • My life is spontaneous and things just kind of happen. -- Harry Connick, Jr.
  • Worrying is the most natural and spontaneous of all human functions. -- Lewis Thomas
  • Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation. -- Henri Poincare
  • Meticulous planning will enable everything a man does to appear spontaneous. -- Mark Caine
  • Meticulous planning will enable everything a man does to appear spontaneous. -- Mark Caine
  • To be creative and spontaneous, you have to live with imperfection. -- John Abercrombie
  • An inspired life is spontaneous. There is no fear; it is courageous. -- Debasish Mridha
  • I don't want to make myself sound that spontaneous, because I'm not. -- Lynne Rae Perkins
  • Romance should be spontaneous, but in my career I'm totally in control. -- Madonna Ciccone
  • A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning. -- Richard M. Nixon
  • Be spontaneous, be creative, go out and have fun, let things happen naturally. -- Conor McGregor
  • Life is the faculty of spontaneous activity, the awareness that we have powers. -- Immanuel Kant
  • No literary form is more revealing, more spontaneous or more individual than a letter. -- P. D. James
  • The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event. -- Daniel J. Boorstin
  • When you trust your director completely, then you can relax, be spontaneous, be malleable. -- Bo Derek
  • The true enjoyments must be spontaneous and compulsive and look to no remoter end. -- C. S. Lewis
  • It's hard to beat the visceral high of playing live and creating something spontaneous. -- Carrie Brownstein
  • Success is not due to spontaneous combustion. You have to set yourself on fire. -- Various attributed sources
  • Inasmuch as ill-deeds spring up as a spontaneous crop, they are easy to learn. -- Miguel de Cervantes
  • Poetry's role is to provide spontaneous individual candor as distinct from manipulation and brainwash. -- Allen Ginsberg
  • remember... the picture should tell a story in itself, and should have a spontaneous approach -- Betty Poluk
  • Sahaja Yoga is the spontaneous union of the individual consciousness with the All-Pervading Divine Power... -- Nirmala Srivastava
  • remember the picture should tell a story in itself, and should have a spontaneous approach -- Betty Poluk
  • The highest and best form of efficiency is the spontaneous cooperation of a free people. -- Woodrow Wilson
  • If the mind is calm, your spontaneity and honest thoughts appear. You become more spontaneous. -- Chade-Meng Tan
  • do not take pictures to please the public, the photo should be spontaneous and free -- Betty Poluk
  • Love, in the sense of spontaneous, unreflective action, spells the death of the old man. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  • Rock n' roll is about attitude and rebellion. It's supposed to be fun and spontaneous. -- Slash
  • The world had somehow gone too far, and spontaneous kindness could never be so easy. -- Charles Bukowski
  • Let us be awake and live every moment of our precious, loving, and spontaneous life. -- Debasish Mridha
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