Quotes About Routine

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That aunt of mine; boy, she used to wear make-up all week long so terrible thick that - well, she started about Wednesday layering it on, and she never washed, and every day she slapped down a new layer. Until Sunday. Then on Sunday she kind of peeled it off to go to church. *** Boy, she was a case; I used to hope she'd skip a Sunday - sleep through to Monday or something - because I knew two weeks' worth of make-up and she'd set up like a statue.

The days are the same, though, damn it (days that you feel like pages of soft wet sandpaper in your fingers, the silent pliant teeth of time eating away); the summers are the same.

I never underestimate the power of hot rollers for your hair and eyelash curlers for your eyelashes.

The cumulative power of doing things the same way every day seems to be a way of saying to the mind: You're going to be dreaming soon.

Habit is necessary to give power.

If you continue this simple practice every day, you will obtain some wonderful power. Before you attain it, it is something wonderful, but after you attain it, it is nothing special.

The power of habit is very strong.

Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.

Reading the morning newspaper is the realist's morning prayer.

The prayers we weave into the matching of socks, the stirring of oatmeal, the reading of stories, they survive fire.

It is necessary to iterate and reiterate that prayer, as a mere habit, as a performance gone through by routine or in a professional way, is a dead and rotten thing.

If I can start my day out by saying my prayers and getting myself focused, then I know I'm doing the right thing. That 10 minutes helps me in every way throughout the day.

Unless we fix certain hours in the day for prayer, it easily slips from our memory.

Prayer must not be our chance work but our daily business, our habit and vocation.

Habits of prayer need careful cultivation.

I pray every night before I go to sleep and every morning when I wake up.

Just as you wouldn't leave the house without taking a shower, you shouldn't start the day without at least 10 minutes of sacred practice: prayer, meditation, inspirational reading.

A Poem from Edna St. Vincent Millay: Grown-up Was it for this I uttered prayers, And sobbed and cursed and kicked the stairs, That now, domestic as a plate, I should retire at half-past eight?

Prayer time must be kept up as duly as meal-time.

It is by no haphazard chance that in every age men have risen early to pray. The first thing that marks decline in spiritual life is our relationship to the early morning.

Playing around is one thing; following an established regimen is quite another. It's true with exercise equipment and it is true with prayer.

Prayer should be done regularly, persistently, resolutely, and tenaciously at least daily, whether we feel like it or not.

Wee Willie Winkie rins through the town,Upstairs and downstairs, in his nichtgown,Tirlin' at the window, cryin' at the lock,"Are the weans in their bed? for it's now ten o'clock."