Spontaneous Quotes

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

Life, Forward, Reality

I think that sexuality is only attractive when it's natural and spontaneous.
Marilyn Monroe

Natural, Attractive, Sexuality

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
e. e. cummings

Experience, Human, Once

Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
Arnold H. Glasow

Success, Yourself, Fire

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.
Henry Miller

Experience, Dark, Growth

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

Job, Feeling, Whatever

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
William Wordsworth

Poetry, Powerful, Feelings

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

Courage, Trying, Whether

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

Yourself, Spiritual, Others

My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

True, Friends, Loved

For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!
Edward Abbey

Long, Black, Free

Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint.
Georgia O'Keeffe

Perfect, After, Cannot

Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Flower, Either, Sincerity

You must plan to be spontaneous.
David Hockney

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

Life, Live, Person

My life is spontaneous and things just kind of happen.
Harry Connick, Jr.

My choices in films are spontaneous.
Nicole Kidman

Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to the next, but at the same time, you have to be spontaneous and take requests and change the set list at the drop of a hat.
Billie Joe Armstrong

Change, Time, Same

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

Powerful, Human, Reality

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

May, Give, Intuition

I just feel - specifically about that holiday - why is it just one day that you have to tell the person that you love how much you love them? I think that is a little silly. I am much more the girl that likes the spontaneous.
Michelle Trachtenberg

Love, Girl, Person

The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.
Daniel J. Boorstin

Last, Crime, Event

He can't even be at a casual read and not be creating the whole thing in his mind. I remember feeling very awed about how much he still seems to be so in love with it, and so dedicated to making everything really real and really spontaneous.
Amanda Peet

Love, Mind, Feeling

I am more spontaneous than my character.
Gillian Anderson

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

Life, Work, Good

If you confine it, you're confining a whole thing. If you make it spontaneous, so that anything can happen, like we don't want to confine or restrict anything. What we can do, whatever we can let happen, you just let it happen.
Alice Cooper

Happen, Whole, Whatever

It's a matter of keeping people on a spontaneous edge.
John Zorn

Matter, Keeping, Edge

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

Life, Help, Act

Worrying is the most natural and spontaneous of all human functions.
Lewis Thomas

Human, Natural, Worrying

Never say never. The things that you don't plan are the best. I'm a very spontaneous person.
Lindsay Lohan

Best, Person, Plan

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