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Necessity is stronger than duty.
I'm too old to be forced.
I suppose everyone has had that ghastly feeling at one time or another of being urged by some overwhelming force to do some absolutely blithering act.
When temptations march monotonously in regiments, one waits for to pass.
To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.
Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves
Some temptations are so great it takes great courage to yield to them.
What torture it is to hold onto reason as desire intensifies
Some men [ ... ] choose to seek greatness, while others are forced to it. It is always better to choose than to be forced.
A man who is forced is never completely his own master. He must dance on the strings of those who forced him.
The only person pressuring me is myself.
Everybody acts not only under external compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity.
But resist we much. We must, and we will much- about that- be committed.
Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.
When the pressure comes, preferences give way while convictions hold firm.
What I impose, I must accept.
We are not forced into unpleasant activities. We either allow them to come about or we encourage them to come about.
When I have a breakthrough in music and I hear the melody in my hands: that's when I get compelled - something in my gut just has to rise up and sing and put something to that.
A sense of duty imprisons you.
Often when economic pressure is lifted, a man must pump back into himself a feeling of must.
The inversion of external compulsion into the compulsion of conscience ... produces the machine-like assiduity and pliable allegiance required by the new rationality.
Reason should direct, and appetite obey.
Reason has not tamed desire: it is as strong as ever.
An obligation is something which constrains or induces us to act.
Necessity inspires the fatal thought.
Necessity is what impels men to take action, and once necessity is gone, only rot and decay are left
The need is necessary.
Noble self-restraint must have something to restrain.
There will be certain things in a man that have to be won, not forced; inspired, not compelled.
I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.
without desire, there is only duty.
Necessity is a guardian in Nature.
Restraints upon our natural inclinations, which left to themselves do not automatically lead us to do what is good for us and often indeed lead us to evil, are not only necessary; they are the indispensable condition of civilized existence.
Sometimes the heart demands.
Two purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain.
Temptation requires definite, decisive action.
What you resist, persists
is able to resist that temptation.
To submit isn't to be forced. It's to yield to a force greater than your own, in order to become part of the whole.
Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.
I must yield to you, for you are irresistible.
Temptation is the voice of reason without its clothes on.
To tempt and be tempted are closely allied; and in spite of all the finest moral maxims buried in the mind, when emotion interferes, when feeling makes its appearance, one is already much further involved that one realizes, and I have still not learnt how to prevent its appearance.
Tempting is not forcing.
What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes intense desire.
You must be compelled by an inner force to read books, listen to music, and view films which serve only to send you spiraling deeper into the bottomless pit of frustration.
Our desires attract supporting reasons as a magnet the iron fillings.
Duty is whatever opposes inclination.
You Are Hard-Wired For The Kingdom
My compulsion is to create things.
Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity.
Sometimes events conspire to force one to do what should be done.
There are few things as nauseating as pure obedience.
Harsh necessity, and the newness of my kingdom, force me to do such things and to guard my frontiers everywhere.
The urge is to create. The outcome belongs to God.
resist nothing but temptation
Loyalty binds me,
Temptations are like dirty dishes. There are some who leave them alone, scarcely noticing how many have piled up. And there are some who must do them right away.
Desire denied consumes
Whatever you resist, persists.
God primes the pump of obligation.
To be shame-bound means that whenever you feel any feeling, need or drive, you immediately feel ashamed. The dynamic core of your human life is grounded in your feelings, needs and drives. When these are bound by shame, you are shamed to the core.
Conscience whispers, but interest screams aloud.
You are so stubborn."
"I am? I? Woman who insists everything be her way? You must wear hard white shoes. You must remove your weapons. You must travel in a car. You must not kiss me even though I wrap my legs around you when you do. Must must must. I weary of that word.
The absurd duty, too often inculcated, of obeying a parent only on account of his being a parent, shackles the mind, and prepares it for a slavish submission to any power but reason.
Necessity does the work of courage.
All my writings may be considered tasks imposed from within, their source was a fateful compulsion. What I wrote were things that assailed me from within myself. I permitted the spirit that moved me to speak out.
A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.
The need is the necessary want.
There is no memory less satisfying than a temptation that we resisted.
God requires our obedience.
Fate leads the willing, and th' unwilling draws.
Discipline is a demand of life.
There is a compulsion that is perhaps the heart of life's meanings, this marvelous mystery of blood ties that brings joy whenever a new family member comes on the scene.
All good men are cleaved by the struggle between duty and desire
The desires you aspire to need strong chains of intent.
The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.
Temptation provokes me to look upward to God.
Something must be done when you find an opposing set of desires of this kind well to the fore in your category of strong desires. You must set in operation a process of competition, from which one must emerge a victor and the other set be defeated.
Necessary, forever necessary, to burn out false shames and smelt the heaviest ore of the body into purity.
My mind is evidently so constituted that I am subconsciously forced into the path of duty without recourse to tiresome mental processes.
The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A duty to strive is the duty of us all. I felt a call to that duty.
Urge and urge and urge,
Always the procreant urge of the world.
A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.
Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.
Blood calls to blood.
But one of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no one to force you any more you find you have almost lost the power of forcing yourself.
Reason is the slave of passion.
I must do what my conscience bids. I have borne long with self-reproach that would have roused any mind less torpid and cowardly than mine.
The pains of disconcerted or frustrated habits, and the inherent pleasure there is in following them, are motives which nature has put into our wills without generally caring to inform us why; and she sometimes decrees, indeed, that her reasons shall not be ours.
I swayed into him, drawn to his obsessive and insatiable raw need for me, which reflected the depth of my need for him
To quote a dictum of Simon, what a horse does under compulsion he does blindly, and his performance is no more beautiful than would be that of a ballet-dancer taught by whip and goad.
For out of the perverse will came lust, and the service of lust ended in habit, and habit, not resisted, became necessity.
Necessity moderates more troubles than reason.
When we discover our Must, the brain's most primal, protective center gets alarmed. The riot gear is called forth. Defense mechanisms go up. Because choosing Must raises very real and scary questions.
Our passions may be compared to certain slaves
the more severity we show them, the better they obey us.
I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest. What force has a multitude? They can only force me who obey a higher law than I ... I do not hear of men being forced to live this way or that by masses of men. What sort of life were that to live?
If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries,
I would give no man a reason upon compulsion.
As a child I was slave to my impulses; now I am slave to my habits, as are all grown men.
You have summoned me in my weakness. You must sustain me in your strength.
Compelled to help arm the troops fighting to preserve his enslavement.