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Spontaneity is doing things on the spur of the moment, just for the joy of it

• Spontaneous: Performed or occurring as a result of a sudden impulse or inclination and without premeditation or external stimulus. Oxford Dictionary
• Spontaneity is the quality of being able to do something just because you feel like it at the moment, of trusting your instincts, of taking yourself by surprise and snatching from the clutches of your well-organized routine, a bit of unscheduled pleasure. Richard Iannelli
• Be spontaneous. Do it on the spur of the moment, just because you enjoy it. Do it for the joy of doing it, not to win, excel or even do your best. Wayne Dyer
• Joy,  Fun,  Enjoyment,  Planning,  Freedom

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Spontaneity is letting go of control and going with the flow more

• Learn to let go of control, and surf the ever-changing wave. Let unpredictability rule, let randomness be the force of our life, let spontaneity be the rule. Leo Babauta
• Letting go,  Control,  Going with the flow

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Spontaneity is personal freedom; an opportunity for discovering, experiencing and creative expression

• Through spontaneity we are re-formed into ourselves. It creates an explosion that for the moment frees us from handed-down frames of reference, memory choked with old facts and information and undigested theories and techniques of other people’s findings. Spontaneity is the moment of personal freedom when we are faced with reality, and see it, explore it and act accordingly. In this reality the bits and pieces of ourselves function as an organic whole. It is the time of discovery, of experiencing, of creative expression. Viola Spolin
• Freedom,  Discovery,  Experience,  Creative expression

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Spontaneity can show you who you really are

• Only in spontaneity can we be who we truly are. John McLaughlin

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Abandon yourself to spontaneous action

• Away with all ideals. Let each individual act spontaneously from the forever incalculable prompting of the creative wellhead within him. There is no universal law.   H. Lawrence
• Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Abandon yourself to spontaneous delight

• We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit. E. Cummings
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Abandon yourself to spontaneous pleasure

• The essence of pleasure is spontaneity. Germaine Greer
• Why not seize the pleasure at once?  How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation! Jane Austen
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Abandon yourself to spontaneous kindness

• Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you. Samuel Johnson
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Abandon yourself to spontaneous love

• Consider your own life-how many times a day does some situation pop up that leads to moments of frustration and anxiety? Surrendering your head to your heart in those moments will lead you to balance and fulfillment. As you listen to your spirit, peace follows. So follow your spirit. Build your foundation in your heart. Love must be your innermost and spontaneous response towards every person you encounter. Say to yourself inside, “I just love.” Use these words as a key to start the engine running in your heart and watch life brighten with new love and understanding. Surrender to your new awareness and let love unfold the purpose of creation to you.  Sara Paddison
• Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him of her. Bertrand Russell
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Abandon yourself to spontaneous giving and service to others

• A man’s highest happiness is found in the bestowal of benefits on those he loves; love finds its most natural and spontaneous expression in giving. Wallace D. Wattles
• Just as a flower gives out its fragrance to whomsoever approaches our uses it, so love from within us radiates towards everybody and manifests as spontaneous service. Swami Ramdas
• You must render service out of spontaneous urge from within, with a heart filled with love. Sri Sathya Sai Baba
• Giving,  Service

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Abandon yourself to creative expression and creativity

• Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem. Rollo May
• Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one’s death. Rollo May
• You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel. Maurice Ravel
• Creativity is the mother of all energies, nurturer of your most alive self. It charges up every part of you. When you’re plugged in, a spontaneous combustion occurs that ‘artists’ don’t have a monopoly on. Judith Orloff
• Creative expression,  Creativity

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Abandon yourself to spontaneous adventure and excitement

• The principle of spontaneity and serendipity is the ability to experience life with a sense of adventure, excitement, and fresh rediscovery instead of trying to find a serious side to things that have no serious side. Stephen Covey
• Adventure is allowing the unexpected to happen to you. Exploration is experiencing what you have not experienced before. How can there be any adventure, any exploration, if you let somebody else – above all, a travel bureau – arrange everything before-hand? Richard Aldington
• Adventure,  Excitement

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Abandon yourself to spontaneous humour

• Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It’s unbridled, it’s unplanned, it’s full of surprises. Erma Bombeck
• There is a form of laughter that springs from the heart, heard every day in the merry voice of childhood, the expression of a laughter – – loving spirit that defies analysis by the philosopher, which has nothing rigid or mechanical in it, and totally without social significance. Bubbling spontaneously from the heart of child or man. Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life. Sir William Osler
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Abandon yourself to spontaneous thought

• Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment they desert the tradition for a spontaneous thought, then poetry, wit, hope, virtue, learning, anecdote, and all flock to their aid. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Abandon yourself to spontaneity and do it now

• If you wait to do everything until you’re sure it’s right, you’ll probably never do much of anything. Win Borden
• Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.   Napoleon Hill
• Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect. Alan Cohen
• People who wait for the “perfect” time to act never take action. Mike Mahler
• Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.  Samuel Johnson
• You have to start before you’re ready. Steven Pressfield
• Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favourable do nothing. William Feather
• You don’t need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating. Barbara Sher
• Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. Theodore Roosevelt
• Whatever you’re meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible. Doris Lessing

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Allow yourself to spontaneously combust

• Fulfilling the four needs – spiritual, mental, physical, social – in an integrated way is like combining elements in chemistry. When we reach a “critical mass” of integration, we experience spontaneous combustion – an explosion of inner synergy that ignites the fire within and gives vision, passion, and a spirit of adventure to life. Stephen Covey
• I want to do something spontaneous, like combust. Jarod Kintz
• Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must first set yourself on fire. Fred Shero

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Allow your mind to be spontaneous and free

• The idea is not to reduce the human mind to a moronic vacuity, but to bring into play its innate and spontaneous intelligence by using it without forcing it. Alan W. Watts
• There is a famous saying: “If the mind is not contrived, it is spontaneously blissful, just as water, when not agitated, is by nature transparent and clear.” Sogyal Rinpoche

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Allow wealth to flow spontaneously into your life by matching your talent with other’s needs

• Find your unique talent, serve humanity with it, and you can generate all the wealth that you want. When your creative expressions match the needs of your fellow humans, then wealth will spontaneously flow from the unmanifest into the manifest, from the realm of the spirit to the world of form. Deepak Chopra
• Wealth,  Abundance

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Allow solutions to problems to arise spontaneously through embracing uncertainty

• Today I will factor in uncertainty as an essential ingredient of my experience. In my willingness to accept uncertainty, solutions will spontaneously emerge out of the problem, out of the confusion, disorder, and chaos. The more uncertain things seem to be, the more secure I will feel, because uncertainty is my path to freedom. Through the wisdom of uncertainty, I will find my security. Deepak Chopra
• Let go of the need for certainty

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Allow wisdom and decisions to arise spontaneously through stilling the mind

• When you connect with stillness, you also connect with a creative intelligence that is higher than analytical thinking. Very often, the right decision then arises spontaneously. Eckhart Tolle
• When we let go of the thinking mind, we become open to insight—to what in spirituality we might call revelation, or the spontaneous arising of a deep wisdom or a deep knowing. Adyashanti
• Wisdom,  Decision making,  Stillness

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Allow your meditation to be spontaneous without suppressing thought

• In true meditation there is no ambition to stir up thoughts, nor is there an ambition to suppress them. They are just allowed to occur spontaneously and become an expression of basic sanity. Chogyam Trungpa
• Real meditation is spontaneous. It is pure welcoming, because there is no choosing of whatever appears in the field of consciousness. There is no selection. There is only choiceless allowing, be it of external perceptions, feelings, bodily sensations, thoughts, or their absence. Francis Lucille
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Allow play to ignite your spontaneity

• Playology is about waking up our senses, infusing our organs of seeing, hearing, smelling, touching, tasting – and the higher cognitive senses as well, with the spirit of play. Play ignites creativity and spontaneity. Playing together leads to trust and cooperation. Ellie Katz
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Encourage the spontaneity of children

• We cannot know the consequences of suppressing a child’s spontaneity when he is just beginning to be active. We may even suffocate life itself. That humanity which is revealed in all its intellectual splendor during the sweet and tender age of childhood should be respected with a kind of religious veneration. It is like the sun which appears at dawn or a flower just beginning to bloom. Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life. Maria Montessori
• We are all born charming, fresh, and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society. Judith S. Marin
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Spontaneously embrace the unexpected

• Get organised. Know where you are headed. But if something wonderful and unexpected comes along, be flexible enough to follow it. Jackson Brown, Jr.
• To ignore the unexpected (even if it were possible) would be to live without opportunity, spontaneity, and the rich moments of which “life” is made. Stephen Covey
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Sometimes spontaneity is an expression of our deepest self, sometimes it is whimsical and irresponsible

• Our whole life is an attempt to discover when our spontaneity is whimsical, sentimental irresponsibility and when it is a valid expression of our deepest desires and values. Helen Merell

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There is a time for spontaneity and a time for planning

• Spontaneity has its time and its place. Frank Burns
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By all means, schedule, plan and organise, but make room for spontaneity

• Make a schedule that you can stick to, and allocate a realistic amount of time for the important areas of your life. Allow some unscheduled time too, to be spontaneous, or just because life is always full of surprises. Amanda Harvey
• Get organised. Know where you are headed. But if something wonderful and unexpected comes along, be flexible enough to follow it. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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Don’t overplan or overprepare

• Plans are invitation to disappointment. Derek Landy
• You can devise all the plans in the world, but if you don’t welcome spontaneity; you will just disappoint yourself. Abigail Biddinger
• Over-preparation is the foe of inspiration. Napoleon Bonaparte
• Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren’t enjoying today’s sunshine. William Feather
• I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument, while the song I came to sing remains unsung. Tagore
• Man is born to live, not to prepare for life. Boris Pasternak
• No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now. Alan Watts
• The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live. Elbert Hubbard
• We are always getting ready to live but never living. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Why not seize the pleasure at once?  How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation! Jane Austen
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Sometimes the appearance of spontaneity comes from meticulous preparation and planning

• Meticulous planning will enable everything a man does to appear spontaneous. Mark Caine
• Ad libber: A man who stays up all night memorising spontaneous jokes.
• Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art. Oscar Wilde
• Preparation,  Planning

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Sometimes, routine can free you up to be more spontaneous

• The most creative individuals–whether artists, businesspeople, or parents– have rituals that they follow. Paradoxically, the routine frees them up to be creative and spontaneous. Tal Ben- Shahar
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Life is spontaneous change

• 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
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Growth is a spontaneous leap in the dark

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

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• Ad libber: A man who stays up all night memorising spontaneous jokes.
• 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
• Handsome, Sweet, Intelligent, spontaneous, good-looking, nice friends, charming, funny, well…Enough about ME! How about you?
• I am the most spontaneous speaker in the world because every word every gesture and every retort has been carefully rehearsed.  George Bernard Shaw
• I want to do something spontaneous, like combust. Jarod Kintz
• Plan to be spontaneous tomorrow. Steven Wright
• Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art. Oscar Wilde
• Spontaneous speeches are seldom worth the paper they are written on.  Leslie Henson

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