Quotes About Habit

She sits in her usual ample armchair, with piles of books and unopened magazines around her. She sips cautiously from the mug of weak herb tea which is now her substitute for coffee. At one time she thought that she could not live without coffee, but it turned out that it is really the warm large mug she wants in her hands, that is the aid to thought or whatever it is she practices through the procession of hours, or of days.

We know not of the future, and cannot plan for it much. But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and such ideals, and dream such dreams of lofty purpose, that we can determine and know what manner of men we will be whenever the hour strikes that calls us to noble action....No man becomes suddenly different from his habit and cherished thought. (Joshua L. Chamberlain

Well, I think adultery is a filthy habit,' said Rose, 'like using someone else's toothbrush.

Well, it will continue until the destruction of its cause". "And what is that, Sir?" "The way we identify with our body as the doer of action. And this lifelong habit is only destroyed by knowing oneself to be the bodiless Self. This is why it is said that knowledge is the fire that reduces karma to ashes".

The whole business of smoking is like forcing yourself to wear tight shoes just to get the pleasure of taking them off.

The main reason that smokers find it difficult to quit is that they believe that they are giving up a genuine pleasure or crutch. It is absolutely essential to understand that there is nothing to 'give up'.

Eight hours after putting out a cigarette, you are 97% nicotine-free. After just three days of not smoking, you are 100% nicotine-free.

Smokers do not smoke because they enjoy it. They do it because they are miserable without it.

The moment you stop smoking, everything that goes wrong in your life is blamed on the fact that you've stopped smoking.

The only reason any smoker lights a cigarette is to try to end the empty, insecure feeling that the previous cigarette created.

We think of stopping smoking as something that is very difficult to do. What do we need when we have something difficult to do? We need our little friend. So stopping smoking appears to be a double blow. Not only do we have a difficult task to perform, which is hard enough, but the crutch on which we normally rely on such occasions is no longer available.

If you were in control of your smoking, you wouldn't be reading this book. If you could simply choose whether to smoke or not, you would choose to be a nonsmoker.

Just one cigarette' is a myth you must get out of your mind.

Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.

Quinn," Alaric said quietly. "His aim is to ignite your temper. Perhaps you might allow me the chance to assist you this one time?" "Fine, but you seem to be making a habit of it," she shot back. "We can discuss that later, too. Be my guest."

Fidèle à son inexorable habitude, la vie continua.

At some point, if you're changing a really deep-seated behavior, you're going to have a moment of weakness.

Coffee and cigarettes, that's one of my weaknesses.

I wear the same outfit or, at least, a different copy of it almost every day.

To wake up in the morning and just know what I'm going to wear, it helps me get out of the house faster.

I only wear red socks in the kitchen. They bring me luck.

We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.

It's going to be a rule, I think, for wearing a crash hat, and I actually fractured my skull through not wearing a hat. I was so lucky to escape from that, and now, it's something I always do.

I've been wearing the same brand of underwear since I was a baby.