Quotes About Habit

You must choose happiness. Happiness is a habit. It is a good habit to ponder often on Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report;

your car, etc. 4. You have freedom to choose. You can choose a good habit or

Si usted ha transmitido conceptos erróneos a su mente subconsciente, la manera segura de superarlos es mediante la reiteración de pensamientos constructivos y armónicos, repetidos frecuentemente, que su mente subconsciente aceptará y que, por consiguiente, formarán nuevos y saludables hábitos de pensamiento y de vida, ya que su mente subconsciente es un caldo de cultivo para el hábito.

You must choose happiness. Happiness is a habit. It is a good habit on which to ponder often.

You think with your conscious mind, and whatever you habitually think sinks down into your subconscious mind, which then creates according to the nature of your thoughts.

The reason for this is obvious: The suggestion of powerlessness to overcome the habit dominates his mind; the subconscious mind is always controlled by the dominant idea. The subconscious mind will accept the strongest of two contradictory propositions. The effortless way is the best; this method will be discussed in detail in this chapter.

The cause of your drinking is you! It is your sour mental attitude toward life.

The habitual thinking of your conscious mind establishes deep grooves in your subconscious mind. This is very favorable for you if your habitual thoughts are harmonious, peaceful, and constructive.

The alcoholic learns that whatever thought he anchors his mind upon, the latter magnifies. If the alcoholic engages his mind on the concept of freedom (freedom from the habit) with peace of mind, to keep his attention focused on this new direction, he generates feelings and emotions that gradually emotionalize the concept of freedom and peace. Whatever idea is emotionalized is accepted by the subconscious mind—it is consequently brought to pass.

Debe elegir felicidad. La felicidad es un hábito. Es un buen hábito meditar con frecuencia en cuantas cosas haya verdaderas, puras, amables y buenas; si alguna virtud hay, si hay alguna cosa digna de alabanza, piense en ella.

When a depressed person does get out of bed, it's usually not with a sudden insight that life is rich and valuable, but out of some creeping sense of duty or instinct for survival. If collapsing is sometimes vital, so is the brute force of will. To William James we owe the insight that, in the absence of real health, we sometimes must act as if we are healthy. Buoyed by such discipline and habit, we might achieve actual well-being.

Everytime you feed the flesh, you strenghten it. This is good if you are trying to build a good habit, but detrimental if you are trying to stop a bad habit. The way to kill the flesh is to starve it; to stop feeding it.

As we leave this chapter, choose a habit you want to form and begin putting these principles into practice. Be patient with yourself. It takes time to create habits, and you may not succeed every day. If you realize you have failed, don't waste time being discouraged; just pick up where you left off and begin again. Be kind to yourself, because beating yourself up for every mistake is another bad habit that needs to be broken.

Confident people make it a habit to think and act positively. Therefore, they enjoy life, and they accomplish a lot.

Recuerde: los expertos dicen que son necesarios treinta días para formar o romper un hábito, y si usted lo toma día a día, no parecerá tan difícil.

Si no quiere estar repitiendo su mal hábito dentro de diez años, comience a salir de la ruta ahora.

they will remain where they are as long as they continue to do as they do.

Nothing is so safe as habit, even when habit is faked.

Habit is my true, my wedded wife.

The most intellectual of men are moved quite as much by the circumstances which they are used to as by their own will. The active voluntary part of a man is very small, and if it were not economized by a sleepy kind of habit, its results would be null.

The truth that is variously enacted by such agents is not an idea or a proposition. It is rather a habit of life that simply (!) refuses the totalizing claims of power. The governor, on behalf of the empire, will continue to ask, "What is truth?" And the apostles will continue to give answer, uncommonly unintimidated: "'We must obey God rather than any human authority'" (Acts 5:29).14

The practice of reflective meditation, which consists of holding certain ideas in the mind long enough to enable them to form emotional connections, tends to break up the crust of habit and to create a new will.

When bad habits become a habit, you have to turn over a new leaf.

Wenn schlechte Dinge zur Gewohnheit werden, muss man die Verhältnisse ändern.