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    C. S. Lewis
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    Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war. Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gr...

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

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    Rob Gordon (John Cusack)
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    Jeremiah 17:9, Psalm 51:5, Romans 3:10-12, Psalm 14:1-3, Psalm 53:1-3
    "I've been thinking with my guts since I was fourteen years old, and frankly speaking, between you and me, I have come to the conclusion that my guts have sh** for brains."

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    John Muir
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    I will follow my instincts, be myself for good or ill, and see what will be the upshot. As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I'll acquaint myself with the glaciers...

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    Mark Scandrette
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    The Beatitudes name nine distinct areas of human struggle that Jesus addresses in his teaching on the hill. Our first instincts are to be anxious, avoidant, competitive, apathetic, judgmental, evasive...

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    Dick Ryan
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    Bit by intelligible bit, a vocation lets us express our healthiest instincts, our noblest desires… In small things and in large, we can attend to the haunting inner summons of our soul.

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    Thomas Merton
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    There is in us an instinct for newness, for renewal, for a liberation of creative power. We seek to awaken in ourselves a force which really changes our lives from within.

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    Jerry Bridges
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    Habits are the thought and emotional patterns engraved on our minds. These internal habit patterns play just as forceful a role as external influences on our actions – in fact, perhaps more so.

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    Charles Duhigg
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    Habits, scientists say, emerge because the brain is constantly looking for ways to save effort. Left to its own devices, the brain will try to make almost any routine into a habit, because habits allo...

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    Robert N. Bellah
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    [In expressive individualism] each person has a unique core of feeling and intuition that should unfold or be expressed if individuality is to be realized.

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    Harriet Beecher Stowe
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    Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.

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    Jen Pollock Michel
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    Desire is primal: to be human is to want

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    Daniel Kahneman
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    Except for some effects that I attribute mostly to age, my intuitive thinking is just as prone to overconfidence, extreme predictions, and the planning fallacy as it was before I made a study of these...

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    Augustine of Hippo
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    Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

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    Henry Fairlie
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    Philippians 3:12-14, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Galatians 5:16-17, Romans 6:23, Romans 7:18-20
    If we acknowledge that our inclination to sin is part of our natures, and that we will never wholly eradicate it, there is at least something for us to do in our lives that will not in the end seem ju...

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    Parker J. Palmer
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    Our strongest gifts are usually those we are barely aware of possessing. They are a part of our God-given nature, with us from the moment we drew first breath, and we are no more conscious of having t...

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    Blaise Pascal
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    Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

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    C. S. Lewis
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    Romans 7:15-20, Proverbs 20:9, James 4:17, Galatians 5:17, Isaiah 53:6, Jeremiah 17:9, Romans 3:23
    These, then, are the two points I wanted to make. First, that human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to behave in a certain way, and cannot really get rid of it. Seco...

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    John O'Donohue
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    The basic human drive is the desire for the Good.

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    Gordon Olson
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    Everything we do proceeds from a decision of will, involves our intelligence and perception, leads to emotional reactions or experiences, is approved or disapproved by the conscience, and is registere...

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    William Bates
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    The most essential and active desire in human nature is to happiness. . . . There is nothing more uniform and inviolable than the natural inclination to happiness.

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    Charles Duhigg
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    When a habit emerges, the brain stops fully participating in decision making. It stops working so hard, or diverts focus to other tasks. So unless you deliberately fight a habit—unless you find new ro...

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    Thomas Manton
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    Desires are the pulses of the soul;--as physicians judge by the appetite, so may you by desires.

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    Mark Twain
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    Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to.

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    David Platt
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    We do not always choose our temptations. But we do choose our reactions to those temptations.

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    Brené Brown
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    [Belonging is] the innate human desire to be part of something larger than us. Because this yearning is so primal, we often try to acquire it by fitting in and by seeking approval, which are not only ...

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    George Eliot
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    If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heartbeat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of sil...

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    David Lomas
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    It’s been said that our identity is that which is identical about us in every situation. Identity. Identical. Yet that doesn’t help much because we are composite people, bundles of competing desires a...

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    Philip Sheldrake
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    Desires are best understood as our most honest experiences of ourselves, in all our complexity and depth, as we relate to people and things around us

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    Seth Godin
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    It's human nature to quit when it hurts. But it's that reflex that creates scarcity.
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