"Willpower is what separates us from the animals. It's the capacity to restrain our impulses, resist temptation - do what's right and good for us in the long run, not what we want to do right now. It's central, in fact, to civilisation."

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Source : "Why willpower matters – and how to get it" by Jon Henley, www.theguardian.com. February 7, 2012.

Roy Baumeister

#Running Quotes #Animal Quotes #Discipline Quotes

“if one's natural feelings are suppressed long enough one develops supernatural feelings and feels surer of having a soul.”
“The highest condition takes rise in the lowest.”
“Unless you heal the root of a problem, the pain will not go away. You can hide from it, but the problem stays until you dig deep.”
“Storm the castle Stem the tide Rise above yourself Cry baby cry Cry cry to heaven If that doesn't do it for you Go ahead and cry like hell”

Source : Song: Cry To Heaven, 2006
“If you're an artist, the problem is to make a picture work whether you are happy or not.”
“We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.”

Source : Midge Decter (1975). “Liberal parents, radical children”, Coward McCann
“If we are not using our brains' capacity for challenge it feels to me as though it atrophies like an unused muscle.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“One's conscience reproaches one much more stingingly for one's follies than one's crimes.”

Source : Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury (1892). “Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle”

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