Habit Quotes

Anais Nin: “I made no resolutions for the new year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning, and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.”

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Pema Chodron: “When we scratch the wound and give into our addictions we do not allow the wound to heal.”

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Tara Brach: “Perhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible, yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns.”

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Lillian Hellman: “Things start out as hopes and end up as habits. ”

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Anne Sullivan: “We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.”

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Jane Wagner: “[O]ur lives are like soap operas. We can go for months and not tune into them, then six months later we look in and the same stuff is going on.”

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Sharon Salzberg: “It doesn't matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations. If we go into a darkened room and turn on the light, it doesn't matter if the room has been dark for a day, a week, or ten thousand years -- we turn on the light and it is illuminated. Once we control our capacity for love and happiness, the light has been turned on. ”

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Peter Ustinov: “Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.”

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Thich Nhat Hanh: “This is a very important practice. Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself. When you are carried away with your worries, fears, cravings, anger, and desire, you run away from yourself and you lose yourself. The practice is always to go back to oneself.”

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Pema Chodron: “A thoroughly good relationship with ourselves results in being still, which doesn't mean we don't run and jump and dance about. It means there's no compulsiveness. We don't overwork, overeat, oversmoke, overseduce. In short, we begin to stop causing harm.”

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

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William James: “But actions originally prompted by conscious intelligence may grow so automatic by dint of habit as to be apparently unconsciously performed. Standing, walking, buttoning and unbuttoning, piano-playing, talking, even saying one's prayers, may be done when the mind is absorbed in other things. The performances of animal instinct seem semi-automatic, and the reflex acts of self-preservation certainly are so. Yet they resemble intelligent acts in bringing about the same ends at which the animals' consciousness, on other occasions, deliberately aims.”

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Thomas Jefferson: “He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual.”

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Annie Dillard: “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”

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Aristotle: “Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.”

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Charles Kettering: “If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.”

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Mark Twain: “To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did; I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times.”

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Spanish proverb: “Habits are first cobwebs, then cables.”

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman: “Habits of thought persist through the centuries; and while a healthy brain may reject the doctrine it no longer believes, it will continue to feel the same sentiments formerly associated with that doctrine.”

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A. E. Housman: “A tail behind, a trunk in front,
Complete the usual elephant.
The tail in front, the trunk behind,
Is what you very seldom find. If you for specimens should hunt
With trunks behind and tails in front,
That hunt would occupy you long
The force of habit is so strong.”

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Mark Twain: “Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else; this is not advice, it is merely custom. ”

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