As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.

It’s satisfying, yeah. But do you want to make a habit of that? No. I could have given up eight runs tonight with the stuff I was throwing up there. But sometimes you’ve just got...

According to my daughters, my most irritating habit is asking for cups of tea.

Sometimes we get so enamored with the tradition of something that we forget about the intent of it.

Selfishness is a bad habit. That’s why I always rationally think through my decisions to act without regard for others.

It is well said, then, that it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced, and by doing temperate acts the temperate man; without doing these no one would have even a...

Don’t be stuck in a life that’s not yours just because of a bad habit

Trust holds fast, standing firm until deliverance arrives or a solution is found.

When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation.

Of course married life is merely a habit, a bad habit. But then one regrets the loss even of one’s worse habits.

She had been too early habituated to anxious reasoning to drop the habit suddenly.

Emotions manipulates the man more than habits do.

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...

Let your actions be for a purpose and let them be taken with passion. Develop the habit of making the best use of your chances and your desires will come to pass!

You can capable of heroic deeds. Think well of yourself and act positively.

Determination is learning to form a habit, and never breaking it in future.

There’s so much to learn. So much to enjoy. So terribly much to be curious about. Take your life and run with it. Make a habit of being alive. This much of anything, I have...

Philosophers and psychiatrists should explain why it is that we mathematicians are in the habit of systematically erasing our footsteps. Scientists have always looked askance at this strange habit of mathematicians, which has changed little...

Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why

I don’t think that’s a bad habit; I think sucking your thumb is an OK habit, … Somebody’s bad habit could be smoking, that’s kind of a bad habit because it’s harmful to you. But...

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

Unattached and aimless, these old men are always infatuated with little certainties and regularities such as those that ordered the life of Mr. Krupper as seen from outside. Habit is living. Anything unexpected reminds them...

Habit is a shackle for the free.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you

The true beauty of life can only be seen by the eye of habitual positive interpretations of one’s experiences.

I was so much in the habit of having Albertine with me, and now I suddenly saw a new aspect of Habit. Hitherto I had regarded it chiefly as an annihilating force which suppresses the...

What do you expect? This place is one big anti-climax.

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...

Cultivate the habit of making aware choice. Your choice makes your destiny. Do not be carried away by the unconscious choices.

He that becomes protector of sin shall surely become its prisoner.

Flavour your life in such a way that anyone who thinks he or she is biting or back-biting you, will rather take smiles away unexpectedly and with surprises.

The classification of facts, the recognition of their sequence and relative significance is the function of science, and the habit of forming a judgment upon these facts unbiased by personal feeling is characteristic of what...

There’s no player here who can tell me they don’t go through a bad habit during BP and take that to the game and have to go to the cages and fix that stuff. That...

Yoga says instinct is a trace of an old experience that has been repeated many times and the impressions have sunk down to the bottom of the mental lake. Although they go down, they aren’t...

Leading a grateful life should be more than a feeling and a habit. It should be our core value, which we should respect no matter what.

We are to give (and take) true love without falling into the narcissistic habit of only trying to take it in.

Habits are safer than rules; you don’t have to watch them. And you don’t have to keep them either. They keep you.

When we make a habit of acting on the interests arising out of our authentic passions, our enthusiasm can open doors before we even realize the potential that lies beyond them.

Some of the freckles I once loved are now closer to liver spots. But it’s still the eyes we look at, isn’t it? That’s where we found the other person, and find them still.

Good things quickly become habitual and we often stop valuing them.

a beautiful liar wears a beautiful smile☺

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Habit is a form of exercise

I’m a creature of habit, so I like going to boutiques, rather than larger stores, where I know I’ll find something that suits me every time.

Die Gewohnheit einer Meinung erzeugt oft völlige Ueberzeugung von ihrer Richtigkeit, sie verbirgt die schwächeren Theile davon, und macht uns unfähig, die Beweise dagegen anzunehmen.The habit of an opinion often leads to the complete conviction...

In truth, the crossing from nature to culture and vice versa has always stood wide open. It leads across an easily accessible bridge: the practising life. People have committed themselves to its construction since they...

He had a habit of using the same rainbow-colored pencil.

Once you start settling, and letting others control your life, it can quickly become a habit, so it’s best to avoid such things altogether.

Habits are familiar and comfortable, putting our reactions on autopilot and often leading us, instead, to great discomfort.