“It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.”
~James Russell Lowell

“If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.”
~ Bertrand Russell

“A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.”
~Lynn Abbey

“How instinct varies in the grov’lling swine, Compar’d, half-reasoning elephant, with thine! ‘Twixt that and reason what a nice barrier! Forever sep’rate, yet forever near!”
~Alexander Pope

“What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one direction or another he strives to live a supernatural life.”
~Henry David Thoreau

“Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change.”
~H. G. Wells

My favorite instinct quote, “Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.”
~ Henri Matisse

“The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, and the solution comes to you and you don’t know how or why.”
~Albert Einstein

“A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.”
~Lao-Tzu

“Follow your instincts. That’s where true wisdom manifests itself.”
~Oprah Winfrey

“The only real valuable thing is intuition.”
~Albert Einstein

“With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper”
~ Thorstein Veblen

“A few strong instincts and a few plain rules.”
~ William Wordsworth

“There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis.”
~Malcolm Gladwell – This is about the latest Instinct quote..

“Truly successful decision making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.”
~Malcolm Gladwell

Another new Instinct quote:
I rely far more on gut instinct than researching huge amounts of statistics.
~Richard Branson

Very old one:
“I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.”
~Socrates

“You do what’s in your gut- if you’ve been doing it long enough, what’s in your gut will be appropriate.”
~ Anderson Cooper

“Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don’t start measuring her limbs.”
~Pablo Picasso

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“The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.”
~ Sam Levenson

” To me old age is always fifteen years older than I am.”
~ Bernard Baruch

” Just about the time a woman thinks her work is done, she becomes a Grandmother.”
~Anonymous Author

“The reason grandparents and granchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.”
~ Sam Levenson

“To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent – that is to triumph over old age.”
~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich

“Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future.”
~ Gail Lumet Buckley

“If nothing is going well, call your grandmother.”
~ Italian Proverb

“When a child is born, so are grandmothers.”
~ Judith Levy

“Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.”
~ Alex Haley

“I wish I had the energy that my grandchildren have – if only for self-defense.”
~Gene Perret

“Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.”
~ Welsh Proverb

“Grandparents who want to be truly helpful will do well to keep their mouths shut and their opinions to themselves until these are requested.”
~T Berry Brazelton

“They say genes skip generations. Maybe that’s why grandparents find their grandchildren so likeable.”
~Joan McIntosh

“Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap.”
~Doug Larson

“The idea that no one is perfect is a view most commonly held by people with no grandchildren.”
~Doug Larson

“When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window.”
~Ogden Nash

“Grandmother-grandchild relationships are simple. Grandmas are short on criticism and long on love.”
~Author Unknown

“Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.”
~Alex Haley

“A grandma’s name is little less in love than is the doting title of a mother. ”
~William Shakespeare

“A grandmother is a babysitter who watches the kids instead of the television.”
~Author Unknown

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The chemist who can extract from his heart’s elements compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love
~Khalil Gibran

Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.
~Mason Cooley

Compassion is the basis of morality.
~Arnold Schopenhauer

Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.
~Francis Schaeffer

The act of compassion begins with full attention, just as rapport does. You have to really see the person. If you see the person, then naturally, empathy arises. If you tune into the other person, you feel with them. If empathy arises, and if that person is in dire need, then empathic concern can come. You want to help them, and then that begins a compassionate act. So I’d say that compassion begins with attention.
~Daniel Goleman

Compassion is the radicalism of our time.
~Dalai Lama

Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in his compassion raised me up and exalted me very high and placed me on the top of the wall.
~Saint Patrick

Compassion is a foundation for sharing our aliveness and building a more humane world.
~Martin Lowenthal

Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
~John Berger

The value of compassion cannot be over-emphasized. Anyone can criticize. It takes a true believer to be compassionate. No greater burden can be borne by an individual than to know no one cares or understands.
~Arthur H. Stainback

At the end of the day, love and compassion will win.
~Terry Waite

Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival.
~ Dalai Lama Quotes

Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little.
~ Buddha

Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
~Henry Ward Beeche

By compassion we make others’ misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also
~Thomas Browne, Sr.

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Here are our compilation of our great family quotes.

“Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.”
~Michael Levine

“The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven’s lieutenants.”
~Shakespeare

“I don’t have to look up my family tree, because I know that I’m the sap.”
~Fred Allen

“A happy family is but an earlier heaven ”
~George Bernard Shaw

“You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s.”
~ Robert Frost quotes

“No matter what you’ve done for yourself or for humanity, if you can’t look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?”
~Elbert Hubbard

“It is a wise father that knows his own child.”
~William Shakespeare

“An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.”
~Spanish Proverb

“A happy family is but an earlier heaven.”
~John Bowring

“Acting is just a way of making a living; the family is life.”
~ Denzel Washington

“A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.”
~ Ogden Nash

“You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.”
~Desmond Tutu

” Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.”
~ Anthony Brandt

“In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry. ”
~Margaret Laurence

“Writers will happen in the best of families. ”
~Rita Mae Brown

“It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ”
~Johann Schiller

“Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back.”
~ Mignon McLaughlin

“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”
~George Burns

“The family you come from isn’t as important as the family you’re going to have”
~Ring Lardner

“When you look at your life the greatest happiness are family happinesses”
~Dr. Joyce Brothers

“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”
~Theodore Hesburgh

“Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.”
~Matt Groening

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“Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.”
~Henry Emerson Fosdick

“If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.”
~Hermann Hesse

or my favorite one is that saying that goes something like ” hating someone is like drinking poison and hoping that the other person will die”

Similarly,”Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.”
~ Coretta Scott

“Hatred is like fire, it makes even light rubbish deadly.”
~George Eliot

“Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.”
~Richard M. Nixon

“You cannot hate other people without hating your self”
~ Oprah Winfrey

“Hate cages all the good things about you.”
~Madrianne Arvore

“If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang.”
~Charley Reese, Which is true for good things also though the good boomerang won’t be a hurting one.. which goes on to say that whatever goes away comes back or as shortly put by E.E. Cummings,

“hatred bounces”

“atred is the coward’s revenge for being intimidated.”
~George Bernard Shaw

And for some of the fanatic zealots out there, “We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.?€”
~ Jonathan Swift

“Those who hate most fervently must have once loved deeply; those who want to deny the world must have once embraced what they now set on fire.”
~ Kurt Tucholsky

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This is my favorite Irish Drinking Quote, actually a Toasts,

“Here’s to our wives and girlfriends:
May they never meet!”

And here is a drinking love quote, “But the greatest love–the love above all loves, Even greater than that of a mother… Is the tender, passionate, undying love, Of one beer drunken slob for another.”

“Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar, and fat.”
~Alex Levine

“Oh, he occasionally takes an alcoholiday.”
~Oscar Wilde

When we drink, we get drunk.
“When we get drunk, we fall asleep.
When we fall asleep, we commit no sin.
When we commit no sin, we go to heaven.
So, let’s all get drunk, and go to heaven!”
~Unknown

“A narrow neck keeps the bottle from being emptied in one swig. ”

“God invented whiskey so the Irish wouldn’t rule the world!”
~ Unknown

“I wouldn?€™t be here if it wasn?€™t for my Mum. I know I’ve got Irish blood because I wake up everyday with a hangover. ”
~Noel Gallagher

“There is no beer in heaven, That?€™s why we drink ours here. ”
~ Unknown

A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote.
A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat.
So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.
~William Butler Yeats

“Work is the curse of the drinking class.”
~Oscar Wilde

“What whiskey will not cure, there is no cure for.”
~Unknown

“He’d step over ten naked women to get at a pint.”

“It’s the first drop that destroys you; there’s no harm at all in the last.”

“The devil invented Scotch whiskey to make the Irish poor.”

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“God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say “thank you?”"
~ William Arthur Ward

“I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks. ”
~William Shakespeare

“A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues”
~Cicero

“Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.”
~ David Thomas

“The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.”
~ William Blake

“The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention. ”
~Oscar Wilde

“Gratitude is something of which none of us can give too much. For on the smiles, the thanks we give, our little gestures of appreciation, our neighbors build their philosophy of life.”
~ A. J. Cronin

If someone gives you a book for a present, you can use this thank you quote, “A book is a gift you can open again and again.”
~ Garrison Keillor

“I feel a very unusual sensation – if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude. ”
~Benjamin Disraeli

“It is impossible to feel grateful and depressed in the same moment.”
~ Naomi Williams

“How beautiful a day can be When kindness touches it! ”
~ George Elliston

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We all have had our share of embarrassing moments.
This collection of Embarrassment Quotes is to look back at those moments and share a smile by looking at what famous people had to say about embarrassments.

“The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate.”
~ Douglas Engelbart

“Some people play very, very well just so they won’t get embarrassed.”
~ Lynn Swann

“Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.”
~Tony Benn

“There’s a blush for won t, and a blush for shan’t, and a blush for having done it: There’s a blush for thought and a blush for naught, and a blush for just begun it.”
~John Keats

“I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.”
~Paul Tillich

“But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.”
~George Eliot

“We never forgive those who make us blush.”
~Jean-Francois De La Harpe

“He scratched his ear, the infallible resource to which embarrassed people have recourse.”
~Byron, Lord

“Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.”
~ Helen Keller

“Other relaxations are peculiar to certain times, places and stages of life, but the study of letters is the nourishment of our youth, and the joy of our old age. They throw an additional splendor on prosperity, and are the resource and consolation of adversity; they delight at home, and are no embarrassment abroad; in short, they are company to us at night, our fellow travelers on a journey, and attendants in our rural recesses.”
~Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.” ~Tennessee Williams

And famous people are the most lonely as this saying goes, “Being Prime Minister is a lonely job… you cannot lead from the crowd.” ~ Margaret Thatcher

And so are the rich people, “Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people.” ~ Joan Collins

SO the richest are often the poorest as this saying goes, “Loneliness is the ultimate poverty”~Abigail Van Buren

“When we truly realize that we are all alone is when we need others the most”~ Ronald Anthony

“One may have a blazing hearth in one’s soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.” ~Vincent Van Gogh

“Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.” ~Kahlil Gibran

“The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.”~ Mother Teresa

“I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.”~Pedro Almodovar

“People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.”~Anton Checkov

“Be good and you will be lonely.”~ Mark Twain

“People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.”~ Joseph F. Newton

“The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.” ~Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.”~Bertrand Russell

“Every man is afraid of something. That’s how you know he’s in love with you; when he is afraid of losing you.” ~ unknown

“Don’t be afraid to go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is.”~ H. Jackson Browne

“Love is like an earthquake-unpredictable, a little scary, but when the hard part is over you realize how lucky you truly are.” ~ Unknown

“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.” ~Marcus Aurelius

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear. “~Ambrose Redmoon

“The key to change… is to let go of fear.”~ Rosanne Cash

“To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.” ~Bertrand Russell

“Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. “~Marie Curie

“Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.”~ Bill Russell

“The basis of optimism is sheer terror.”~ Oscar Wilde

“You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea. “~Pearl S. Buck

“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”~ Dostoyevsky

“In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others.” ~Robert Louis Stevenson

“It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, “Always do what you are afraid to do.”~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Fear is the father of courage and the mother of safety.” ~Henry H. Tweedy

“A man who has been in danger,
When he comes out of it forgets his fears,
And sometimes he forgets his promises.”
~ Euripides

“Being frightened is an experience you can’t buy.”
~ Anthony Price

“Fear is the needle that pierces us that it may carry a thread to bind us to heaven. ” ~James Hastings

“Why are we scared to die? Do any of us remember being scared when we were born?” ~ Trevor Kay

“Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.” ~ Babe Ruth

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