81 quotes found
“For those who are poor in happiness, each time is a first time; happiness never becomes a habit.”
“One should cultivate good habits of memory, for it is capable of making existence a Paradise or an Inferno.”
“Here is a wonderful habit: From time to time stop; move not; speak not; just watch the nature, because this is the best way to realise explicitly the miracles surrounding us!”
“Of course married life is merely a habit, a bad habit. But then one regrets the loss even of one's worse habits.”
“Theres usually more than one way to complete a task. I will not stay stuck in my ways. I will remain motivated and open-minded.”
“Such is the strength of the burden of habit. Here I have the power to be but do not wish it. There I wish to be but lacks the power. On both grounds, I'm in misery.”
“Nothing seems crazy when you're used to it.”
“Grit, which they defined as the tendency to work strenuously toward challenges, maintaining effort and interest over years despite failure, adversity, and plateaus in progress.”
“The force is within you force yourself. ”
“It doesn't follow that a nasty habit of mind is any less nasty because it's ancestral. It doesn't follow you can't cure it. Why scratch fleas for ever? Gambling, speculation, is a social disease. I...”
“Memory and Habit are attributes of the Time cancer. They control the most simple Proustian episode, and an understanding of their mechanism must precede any particular analysis of their application.”
“I believe Jesus wasn't thinking about miracle when He performed it. He's just doing normal activities as he did in His heavenly kingdom.”
“The problem with living so long is that we get used to it. We watch the mortals age and wither and die around us, watch the world change and decay...but no matter the hardship or the pain or the so...”
“The habit of thinking prevents us at times from experiencing reality, immunises us against it, makes it seem no more than any other thought.”
“A virtue is a habit that includes all of these things: actions (you take care of your child even when you don't feel like it), emotions (you are often overtaken by feelings of tenderness and deligh...”
“At the beginning of a pestilence and when it ends, there's always a propensity for rhetoric. In the first case, habits have not yet been lost; in the second, they're returning. It is in the thick o...”
“Writers perform the so-called counterfactual thinking all the time. All the time. For most people, counterfactual thingking is a habit, but for writers, it is a necessity”
“Every day is a new beginning, the building of a habit. Every action is a step in some direction. There is no pause in living.”
“Humans get used to even if they are in the hell.”
“Part of the problem about authenticity is that virtues aren't the only things that are habit forming: the more someone behaves in a way that is damaging to self or to others, the more "natural" it ...”
