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Spontaneously to God should turn the soul, Like the magnetic needle to the pole; But what were that intrinsic virtue worth, Suppose some fellow, with more zeal than knowledge, Fresh from St. Andrew's College, Should nail the conscious needle to the north? -- Thomas Hood
A funny person is funny only for so long, but a wit can sit down and go on being spellbinding forever. One is not meant to laugh. One stays quiet and marvels. Spontaneously witty talk is without question the most fascinating entertainment there is. -- Diana Vreeland
Apartheid does not happen spontaneously, like bad weather conditions. -- Jonathan Kozol
I think my mouth just opens and I spontaneously say things that occur to me. -- Helena Bonham Carter
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly. -- Francis Bacon
What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended? -- Honore de Balzac
Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities. -- Bertrand Russell
Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context. -- Margaret J. Wheatley
We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being. -- Maria Montessori
The stirrings of morality emerge early in childhood. Toddlers spontaneously offer toys and help to others and try to comfort people they see in distress. -- Steven Pinker
Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in. -- Stephen Hawking
Yet, analytical truth is not as mysterious, or as secret, so as to not allow us to see that people with a talent for directing consciences see truth rise spontaneously. -- Jacques Lacan
Living each day as if it were your last doesn't mean your last day of retirement on a remote island. It means to live fully, authentically and spontaneously with nothing being held back. -- Jack Canfield
My father was an airline pilot, so we travelled more spontaneously than a lot of families. On a Thursday, we could decide to go somewhere like Barbados the next day for a long weekend. -- Chris Hadfield
The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple. -- Rudolf Arnheim
Since it is necessary to grant six million Filipinos their rights, so that they may be in fact Spaniards, let the government grant these rights freely and spontaneously, without damaging reservations, without irritating mistrust. -- Jose Rizal
We think that life develops spontaneously on Earth, so it must be possible for life to develop on suitable planets elsewhere in the universe. But we don't know the probability that a planet develops life. -- Stephen Hawking
Remember that in the early days of the feminist movement, they refused to have a leader; different women would just stand up and speak. The early feminists were very careful to not put what was spontaneously arising back in the old bottle. -- James Hillman
As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, 'No. You shouldn't be doing that.' And we slowly begin to unlearn our passions. I think you have to hold on to those things. -- J. Michael Straczynski
I don't like to do things for any other reason than it happens spontaneously or there's something that makes it happen naturally. I don't like putting down too many plans and trying to do a strategy to get a certain response or a certain effect. -- Ziggy Marley
The Occupy movement did create spontaneously communities that taught people something: you can be in a supportive community of mutual aid and cooperation and develop your own health system and library and have open space for democratic discussion and participation. Communities like that are really important. -- Noam Chomsky
When people in stadiums do the Wave, it's the group-mind collective organism spontaneously organizing itself to express an emotion, pass time, and reflect the joy of seeing the rhythms of many as one, a visual rhyming or music in which everyone senses where the motion is going. -- Jerry Saltz
The way you deal with a scare is the way you deal with a laugh. The timing has to be perfect. When you're dealing with fear or laughter - emotions that happen spontaneously - you hope it's working. But in the moment, you really have no idea. -- Patrick Wilson
You should do what you enjoy doing, what brings you passion. As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, 'No. You shouldn't be doing that.' And we slowly begin to unlearn our passions. I think you have to hold on to those things. -- J. Michael Straczynski
My last album as J. Tillman, 'Singing Ax,' that was really a premeditated death rattle of the aesthetic precedent I had set. I realized I wasn't creating spontaneously; I was enforcing all these parameters. I was too self-loathing or something, and there was this obvious dissonance between my conversational voice and creative voice. -- J. Tillman
Belief comes spontaneously as well as by effort. Belief is power. An insincere and uninspired seeker is aware of the truth that belief is power, but he cannot go beyond understanding or awareness; whereas a sincere, genuine, devoted and surrendered seeker knows that belief is dynamic power, and he has this power as his very own. -- Sri Chinmoy
One who loves God sees everything in relation to God. Therefore, their love flows spontaneously toward everyone, at all times, everywhere. They even love those who wish them harm. If you love God, you can't hate anything or anyone. If the love one offers is met with hate, it doesn't die; rather, it manifests in the form. -- Radhanath Swami
I can say with a solid degree of authority that I am a selfish person. I spontaneously forget the names of more people than not, unless I want to make out with them. I will take the last square of toilet paper off the roll without thinking twice. I tip taxi drivers so poorly I'm amazed none of them have run over my foot while speeding off. -- Sloane Crosley
I like to work spontaneously. -- Chaka Khan
Strategic thinking rarely occurs spontaneously -- Michael Porter
An artist should let his style evolve naturally, spontaneously. -- Michael Jackson
Good order results spontaneously when things are let alone -- Zhuangzi
Nature spontaneously keeps us well. Do not resist her! -- Henry David Thoreau
I'm a ham. I always like to answer spontaneously. -- Gloria Vanderbilt
Are you spontaneously enthusiastic about everyone having everything you can have? -- R. Buckminster Fuller
When you have well thought out your subject, words will come spontaneously. -- Horace
A kindness spontaneously offered to him who needs it, is doubly gratifying. -- Publilius Syrus
Once you learn the art of relaxation, everything happens spontaneously and effortlessly. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
If you feel an overwhelming urge to act spontaneously, pull in the reins -- Priscilla Shirer
Resolution is struggle. Resolution is ego. Resolution is saying, "I cannot live spontaneously. ". -- Rajneesh
Truthful movements spontaneously attract to themselves all manner of pure and disinterested help. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I'm bothered by the fact that stupid people don't spontaneously combust, which they should. -- Erik Naggum
Thomas has the kind of whiter-than-white boyish grin that makes women's panties spontaneously evaporate. -- Jim Butcher
Divine life is basically the inner freedom to choose the right and the good spontaneously. -- Thomas Keating
When I was a boy, unconsciously, spontaneously I learned the art of telling ironic stories. -- Dario Fo
I didn't know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose. -- Veronica Roth
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First, the human mind should be harmonized, then the harmony of Nature will spontaneously take place. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
Art can compel people freely, gladly, and spontaneously to sacrifice themselves in the service of man. -- Leo Tolstoy
Revolutionary tactics cannot be invented by leaders; they must develop spontaneously-history comes first, leaders' consciousness second. -- Rosa Luxemburg
I hate when you have to smile for me..so nice if you'd do that spontaneously. -- Toba Beta
Sam said nothing about it, as though he spontaneously composed music with nature all the time. -- Jodi Meadows
When your creative expressions match the needs of you fellow humans, then wealth will spontaneously manifest. -- Deepak Chopra
You will find the truth the way you have found your awareness, spontaneously. It's a living process. -- Nirmala Srivastava
Around the world today people are spontaneously spawning a culture dedicated to creating conditions conducive to life. -- Kenny Ausubel
When one has truly imbibed spiritual qualities, they will spontaneously be reflected in one's thoughts and actions. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
Loyalty must arise spontaneously from the hearts of people who love their country and respect their government. -- Hugo Black
To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness. -- Bertrand Russell
When we connect to the infinite source of wisdom within, creative new ideas, opportunities, and healing spontaneously unfold. -- Deepak Chopra
I've always gravitated towards songwriting that happens easily and spontaneously, because those have always been my best songs. -- Jane Wiedlin
The skill of letting go can be learned, and once learned you will enjoy living much more spontaneously. -- Deepak Chopra
It is emphatically the case that life could not arise spontaneously in a primeval soup from its kind. -- A. E. Wilder-Smith
Words that arise spontaneously out of the state of presence are charged with spiritual power: the power to awaken. -- Eckhart Tolle
Not understanding the process of a spontaneously-ordered economy goes hand-in-hand with not understanding the creation of resources and wealth. -- Julian Simon
Coming up with ideas is really hard - they don't spontaneously pop into my head while I'm cutting vegetables. -- Garry Trudeau
One day the worlds male population will spontaneously combust because they've kept too much stuff in for too long. -- Mike Gayle
Meditation is the only way you can transcend the negative thoughts, and then positive thoughts will come spontaneously & automatically. -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant. -- Tennessee Williams
There is no such thing as making the miracle happen spontaneously and on the spot. You've got to work. -- Martina Arroyo
I raised another shot. "That sound you hear is the heads of moral conservatives spontaneously exploding in the distance. -- Rob Thurman
I went to Clive Davis' Grammy party and I nearly spontaneously combusted because everyone on my iPod was there! -- Leona Lewis
When the Body Gets working appropriately, the force of Gravity can flow through, then spontaneously, the body heals itself -- Ida Rolf
The ego is exploitation; love is service. And the service that flows from love, freely and spontaneously, is non-violence. -- Rajneesh
Don't judge the people by their clothes.. however you might be able to do that spontaneously when they are naked. -- Toba Beta
Everything is happening spontaneously, and the witnessing of it is also happening spontaneously. Everything is already happening in natural balance. -- Mooji
Fear is the mother of all gods ... Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods. -- Lucretius
Nature's government spontaneously brings satisfaction to everyone because it promotes all innumerable, diverse tendencies of life in the evolutionary direction. -- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
It seems that truth is progressive approximation in which the relative fraction of our spontaneously tolerated residual error constantly diminishes. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Credulity is the common failing of inexperienced virtue; and he who is spontaneously suspicious may justly be charged with radical corruption. -- Samuel Johnson
Credulity is the common failing of inexperienced virtue and he who is spontaneously suspicious may justly be charged with radical corruption -- Samuel Johnson
Pay attention only to the form; emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling place always finds an inhabitant. -- Andre Gide
When, from the depths of your heart, you spontaneously wish all beings to find true, lasting happiness, this is great love. -- Dalai Lama
The most interesting things that happen in my books are usually the things that arise spontaneously, the things that surprise me. -- Jay McInerney
If you'd sat there any longer,' Annabeth said, 'you would have spontaneously combusted. I hope the conversation was worth it? -- Rick Riordan
I was formerly so stuck into plans. I can now live more spontaneously. This I want not yet to give away. -- Gabriela Sabatini
The power of music, whether joyous or cathartic must steal on one unawares, come spontaneously as a blessing or a grace-- -- Oliver Sacks
Feelings of love and gratitude arise directly and spontaneously in the baby in response to the love and care of his mother. -- Melanie Klein
The spontaneous is the most beautiful thing that can appear in a picture, but nothing in art appears less spontaneously than that. -- Jeff Wall
Those who seem to load the public taste are, in general, merely outrunning it in the direction which it is spontaneously pursuing. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
Enjoy the simple, the natural and the plain. Along with that comes the ability to do things spontaneously and have them work. -- Benjamin Hoff
If the mind is not contrived, it is spontaneously blissful, just as water, when not agitated, is by nature transparent and clear. -- Sogyal Rinpoche
For the time being I have seen enough of living things, of dogs, of men, of all flabby masses which move spontaneously. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
I think the universe was spontaneously created out of nothing, according to the laws of science. It has no beginning and no end. -- Stephen Hawking
The arts, like language, emerged spontaneously and universally in similar forms across cultures, employing imaginative and intellectual capacities that had clear survival value. -- Denis Dutton
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I believe that modern science supports free will, in showing that the brain can act spontaneously, not only in response to external stimuli. -- Mario Bunge
It's unlikely that machines would spontaneously decide they didn't like people, or that they had goals in opposition to those of human beings. -- Stuart J. Russell
All I really wanted was to try and live the life that was spontaneously welling up within me. Why was that so very difficult? -- Hermann Hesse
Every person on the face of the earth has a gift. In some this reveals itself spontaneously, others have to work to find it. -- Paulo Coelho
Style, in the broadest sense of all, is consciousness. More specifically it is a consistent idiom arising spontaneously from the personality but deliberately maintained. -- Quentin Crisp
The fact is that certain ideas exist almost everywhere and at all times and can even spontaneously create themselves quite independently of migration and tradition. -- Carl Jung
All this talk: the state should do this or that, ultimately means: the police should force consumers to behave otherwise than they would behave spontaneously. -- Ludwig von Mises
What humans have spontaneously identified as good and bad - or as positive and negative - are evolutionary complementations in need of more accurate identifications. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Refraining from stealing: care with material goods. Undertake for one week to act on every single thought of generosity that arises spontaneously in your heart. -- Jack Kornfield
The life we have on Earth must have spontaneously generated itself. It must therefore be possible for life to generate spontaneously elsewhere in the universe. -- Stephen Hawking
Away with all ideals. Let each individual act spontaneously from the forever incalculable prompting of the creative wellhead within him. There is no universal law. -- D. H. Lawrence
Just listen to your body, eat in silence and see what feels good and you will spontaneously choose the foods that are beneficial to you. -- Deepak Chopra
You could ask for hugs if you were feeling sad or you'd hurt yourself, but when it happened spontaneously it made you feel warm inside. -- Mark Haddon
We lavender folk spray up, spontaneously flowering in the color we had learned as an identifying mark of our culture when it was subterranean and secret. -- Judy Grahn
The belief that life on earth arose spontaneously from nonliving matter, is simply a matter of faith in strict reductionism and is based entirely on ideology. -- Hubert Yockey
In the beginning there were two primal spirits,Twins spontaneously active,These are the Good and the Evil, in thought, and in word, and in deed. -- Zoroaster
These three movements were born spontaneously and independently of the initiative of a few French patriots who had a place in the old political groups and parties. -- Jean Moulin
When you know beyond all doubting that the same life flows through all that is, and you are that life, you will love all naturally and spontaneously. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
They flower spontaneously out of the demands of our natures - and the best of them lead us not only outward in space, but inward as well. -- Lawrence Durrell
Evolution writ large is the belief that a cloud of hydrogen will spontaneously invent extreme-ultraviolet lithography, perform Swan Lake, and write all the books in the British Museum. -- Fred Reed
When you know in your bones that your body is a sacred gift, you move in the world with an effortless grace. Gratitude and humility rise up spontaneously. -- Debbie Ford
The greatest step towards a life of happiness and simplicity is to let go. Trust in the power that is already taking care of you spontaneously without effort. -- Mooji
When an American asks for the cooperation of his fellow citizens, it is seldom refused; and I have often seen it afforded spontaneously and with great good will. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
Life began three and a half billion years ago, necessarily about as simple as it could be, because life arose spontaneously from the organic compounds in the primeval oceans. -- Stephen Jay Gould
We seek fulfillment in our lives through heart connection with others. This is our soul's essence of joy, which spontaneously pulses through us, longing to share itself with another. -- John Friend

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