Quotes About Habit

I wasted a lot of time being angry, time I can't get back. And now I see you, so angry about what happened to your marriage, and I just want to tell you, at some point it doesn't matter who was right and who was wrong. At some point, being angry is just another bad habit, like smoking, and you keep poisoning yourself without thinking about it.

orange juice a day (though those results may have been due to other healthy habits of the juice drinkers). And many of the cancer-fighting limonoids (see below) are also present in the juice. But compared to the whole fruit, orange

It is the things that occur every single day that truly make up our lives.

We deserve some respect. You deserve some respect. You are important to other people, as much as to yourself. You have some vital role to play in the unfolding destiny of the world. You are, therefore, morally obliged to take care of yourself. You should take care of, help and be good to yourself the same way you would take care of, help and be good to someone you loved and valued. You may therefore have to conduct yourself habitually in a manner that allows you some respect for your own Being

The body, with its various parts, needs to function like a well-rehearsed orchestra. Every system must play its role properly, and at exactly the right time, or noise and chaos ensue. It is for this reason that routine is so necessary. The acts of life we repeat every day need to be automatized. They must be turned into stable and reliable habits, so they lose their complexity and gain predictability and simplicity.

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it is the things that occur every single day that truly make up our lives, and time spent the same way over and again adds up at an alarming rate.

The acts of life we repeat every day need to be automatized. They must be turned into stable and reliable habits, so they lose their complexity and gain predictability and simplicity.

We deserve some respect. You deserve some respect. You are important to other people, as much as to yourself. You have some vital role to play in the unfolding destiny of the world. You are, therefore, morally obliged to take care of yourself. You should take care of, help and be good to yourself the same way you would take care of, help and be good to someone you loved and valued. You may therefore have to conduct yourself habitually in a manner that allows you some respect for your own

I know of one semibarbarous zone whose librarians repudiate the "vain and superstitious habit" of trying to find sense in books, equating such a quest with attempting to find meaning in dreams or in the chaotic lines on the palms of one's hand.

Hoy la ciencia ya ha demostrado que «el hábito es la gran herramienta de la memoria y, por lo tanto, también del talento, que es su criatura» (José Antonio Marina dixit).

El trabajo, creando el hábito del esfuerzo, sería la mejor escuela del carácter; pero la sociedad enseña a odiarlo, imponiéndolo precozmente, como una ignominia desagradable o un envilecimiento infame, bajo la esclavitud del yugo y de horarios, ejecutado por hambre o por avaricia, hasta que el hombre huye de él como de un castigo: sólo podrá amarlo cuando sea una gimnasia espontánea de sus gustos y de sus aptitudes.

La Rutina, síntesis de todos los renunciamientos, es el hábito de renunciar a pensar.

If you hate your enemies, you will contract such a vicious habit of mind, as by degrees will break out upon those who are your friends.

whatever we frequently think of and ponder, that will become the inclination of our minds.

He had a habit of remarking to bartenders that he didn't see any sense in mixing whiskey with water since the whiskey was already wet.

I've long since lost my taste for good coffee," he says. "I much prefer the kind that sooner or later, if you keep on drinking it, your hands will begin to shake and the whites of your eyes will turn yellow.

Tu vida fue una vida llena de miseria, sin sentido. Cuando éramos jóvenes gocé tu carne. En los últimos años la he desdeñado. Tal vez fuera ése nuestro pecado. Como el calor del amor no estaba en nosotros, sino el hielo de la costumbre, todo a nuestro alrededor ha muerto, todo se atrofió y se echó a perder. Tienes suerte, Deborah. El Señor ha tenido compasión de ti.

I fear this is the case because niceness is habit-forming. Once you've become nice there are no limits to what you will do to continue to evince positive feedback from the world around you. It's a self-reinforcing spiral that never needs to stop.

Men who have a thirty-six-televised-football-games-a-week-habit should be declared legally dead and their estates probated.

I also have a habit of overeating when I was depressed or frustrated, which was most of the time.

CLASSIC American axiom warns: "Don't try to think yourself into a new way of acting: Act yourself into a new way of thinking.

Primero una fundación de la orden trapense tradicional. Después una reforma de la orden trapense. Después una fundación fuera de esa orden. Por último, una pequeña comunidad llevando una vida sencilla sin regla y sin hábito.

Some give the impression they go on living only because it's a habit they cannot shake