Jaggi Vasudev Quotes

Even if they don't know it, everyone has the instinct to survive.

Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.

The first inclination which an animal has is to protect itself

Incredible things can be done simply if we are committed to making them happen.

Fear changes everything. We're animals, and when we get afraid we act like animals. I'm not exempt from that.

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

As humans, we have evolved to compete... it is in our genes, and we love to watch a competition.

Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.

My father so appropriately put it that we are certainly the only animal that makes conscious choices that are bad for our survival as a species.

No one is out to get you. It's just that... people are monkeys.

We are in a far better position to observe instincts in animals or in primitives than in ourselves. This is due to the fact that we have grown accustomed to scrutinizing our own actions and to seeking rational explanations for them.

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.

I have an odd theory on happiness, and it bothers people. My general theory is that happiness is a reward for an animal doing what it should be doing. So if a horse runs, it feels happy. Or if you are too thin, you can't be happy, because evolution wants you to be tense and anxious, trying to wake up in the morning looking for food.

I think the default position of humans is to be terrible, and we have to train it out of our children. That's just part of survival, right? Predator animals don't survive by being nice; humans are basically predator animals.

You don't want to be too hesitant and not give everything you could give.

Every bird will follow it's specie.

Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it; let's do it, let's fall in love.

Every animal is providentially directed to the use of its proper weapon.

Of all the animals which fly in the air, walk on the land, or swim in the sea, from Paris to Peru, from Japan to Rome, the most foolish animal in my opinion is man.

The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.

We are born to love, as we are born to breathe and eat and drink.

I think it's one of the most natural things for any human to do is to be able to run because it's that flight or fight reaction you have. You either fight or you run away. It's just a natural way for us to move.

[Footnote:] To give the Beaver his due, he does things because he has to do them, not because he believes that hard work per se will somehow make him a better Beaver -- the Beaver may be dumb, but he is not that dumb! The Beaver was made to gnaw, and gnaw he does. There you have him in a nutshell.

Being attached to someone is not about the other person. It is about your own sense of inadequacy.