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Quotes About Habit

Laurel, I hope you find something like this, a little self-destructive habit you can turn to every once in a while, when you're tired of being good. It will keep you sane.
~ Jennifer Castle
You've lived in America for twenty years. Eat badly, damn it.
~ Jennifer Crusie
The need for personal glory is like cigarette addiction: a habit that feels life-sustaining even as it kills you.
~ Jennifer Egan
In study after study, researchers find that if people are unclear about where they are going, they'll just default to their old patterns and habits.
~ Jennifer Garvey Berger
Is that a scalp?" I whispered to Mr. Swan. Mr. Swan blinked. "A scalp?" "Yes, a scalp. From some unfortunate pioneer." "It's the sole of an old shoe," Mr. Russel grunted. "I beg your pardon?" Chief Toke fingered the leather. "A shoe. He likes to carry it around. Used to be mine." Mr. Russel spit a wad of tobacco, and it barely missed my toe. It seemed that the loathsome habits of the States had been carried to the frontier. "I see," I said, although I clearly did not.
~ Jennifer L. Holm
That's what I love about you, Heiress." Jameson had a habit of tossing out words that should matter like they didn't at all.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
For all our penny-wisdom, for all out soul-destroying slavery to habit, it is not to be doubted that all men have sublime thoughts.
~ Emerson
La sabiduría rompe las cadenas de la fatalidad y nos deja libres de las atadurillas liliputienses de la costumbre.
~ Emilia Pardo Bazán
He... was attached by ties stronger than reason could break -- chains, forged by habit, which it would be cruel to attempt to loosen.
~ Emily Bronte
?udno je kako navika može oblikovati naš ukus i mišljenje; mnogi ne bi mogli zamisliti da postoji sre?a u potpunoj odvojenosti od svijeta...
~ Emily Bronte
One or two is early enough for a person who lies till ten.
~ Emily Bronte
Al??kanl?k denen ÅŸeyin zevklerimizi, düÅŸüncelerimizi bu kadar etkilemesi ne tuhaf...
~ Emily Bronte
Benny was awake again. Happened every morning.
~ Eoin Colfer
Butler cleaned his gun as he spoke. He often did this in times of stress. It was a comfort thing.
~ Eoin Colfer
We should realize that an opinion is not easily formed unless a person says and hears the same things every day and practises them in real life.
~ Epictetus
So if you like doing something, do it regularly; if you don't like doing something, make a habit of doing something different.
~ Epictetus
If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend its increase.
~ Epictetus
Nothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature but all things become so through habit.
~ Epictetus
If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothin which may tend to its increase. At first, keep quiet and count the days when you were not angry: I used to be angry every day, then every other day: next, every two, then every three days! and if you succeed in passing thirty days, sacrifice to the gods in thanksgiving.
~ Epictetus
Legibility, in practice, amounts simply to what one is accustomed to.
~ Eric Gill
Martyrdom was a hard habit to break.
~ Amanda Eyre Ward
Cleanliness is a mindset – a positive habit that keeps the body, mind, and environment happy, healthy, simple, neat, and delightful.
~ Amit Ray
Contrary to what I might like to think,my life is not guided by reason;it is ruled rather by the inertia of habitual motion.
~ Amitav Ghosh
Mrs. Vandor said, with her eyes closed, I wouldn't make that kind of thing a habit. One wishes to be useful, but not indispensably so.
~ Amy Bloom