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Quotes About Habitual

But it is doubtless true, and evident from [the] Scriptures, that the essence of all true religion lies in holy love; and that in this divine affection, and an habitual disposition to it, and that light which is the foundation of it, and those things which are the fruits of it, consists the whole of religion.
~ Jonathan Edwards
Busca las cosas trascendentales, y sólo las hallarás en la H. Los hijos, con hache; el honor, la honra, con hache; Dios (Hacedor Supremo), con hache; hombre, con hache; la materialización de Cristo (La Hostia), con hache; la hidalguía, con hache; el habilitado, que es el que paga, con hache...
~ Enrique Jardiel Poncela
a pattern that is likely to continue.
~ Ben S. Bernanke
There is no myth relative to the manners and customs of the English that in my experience is more tenaciously held by the ordinary Frenchman than that the sale of a wife in the market-place is an habitual and an accepted fact in English life.
~ Sabine Baring-Gould
Ordinary life goes on—that has saved many a man's reason.
~ Graham Greene
I am fascinated by the dailies, what is daily.
~ Juan Ramón Jiménez
In the North, he discoverd, courtesy was considered a barometer of genuine esteem; for any decently brought up Southerner, good manners were simply habitual.
~ Mary Doria Russell
Breaking deeply imbedded habitual tendencies such as procrastination, impatience, criticalness, or selfishness that violate basic principles of human effectiveness involves more than a little willpower and a few minor changes in our lives. "Lift off" takes a tremendous effort, but once we break out of the gravity pull, our freedom takes on a whole new dimension.
~ Stephen R. Covey
We habitually act out of … thoughts and assumptions – most of which we're only vaguely aware of – rather than out of full engagement with the moment.
~ Steve Hagen
Por definición, nuestros patrones habituales de acción solo bastan para cosas y situaciones de determinada significación: solo sabemos como actuar en presencia de lo que nos es familiar. La aparición de lo inesperado nos saca de la complacencia inconsciente, axiomática, y nos obliga (dolorosamente) a pensar.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
I am not merely a habitual quoter but an incorrigible one. I am, I may as well face it, more quotatious than an old stock-market ticker-tape machine, except that you can't unplug me.
~ Joseph Epstein
To be rid of fear, the theory goes, one has to overcome habitual avoidance and be reexposed to the fear-arousing stimulus, experience the fear, and then learn, via extinction, that the stimulus is not really the portent of a harmful outcome. The
~ Joseph LeDoux
The study of expression ought to form a part of the study of psychology, but it also comes within the province of anthropology because the habitual, life-long expressions of the face determine the wrinkles of old age, which are distinctly an anthropological characteristic.
~ Maria Montessori
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for whom the lighting of every cigar, the drinking of every cup, the time of rising and going to bed every day, and the beginning of every bit of work, are subjects of express volitional deliberation. Full half the time of such a man goes to the deciding, or regretting, of matters which ought to be so ingrained in him as practically not to exist for his consciousness at all.
~ Gretchen Rubin
In ordinary terms, a "habit" is generally defined as a behavior that's recurrent, is cued by a specific context, often happens without much awareness or conscious intent, and is acquired through frequent repetition.
~ Gretchen Rubin
A habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the moral; and men lose at once the power of protecting themselves, and of discerning the cause of their oppression.
~ Joel Barlow
Whatever problem the other person has, codependency involves a habitual system of thinking, feeling, and behaving toward ourselves and others that can cause us pain. Codependent behaviors or habits are self-destructive. We frequently react to people who are destroying themselves; we
~ Melody Beattie
I believe detachment can become a habitual response, in the same manner that obsessing, worrying, and controlling became habitual responses—by
~ Melody Beattie
Many of us react as though everything is a crisis because we have lived with so many crises for so long that our reactions have become habitual.
~ Melody Beattie
the quality of the connection to loved ones and early emotional deprivation is key to the development of personality and to an individual's habitual way of connecting with others.
~ Sue Johnson
Por lo menos su vida no fue otra cosa que la repetición de actos tan idénticos, tan sabidos de memoria, que se hacían imposibles de comprender.
~ Juan Carlos Onetti
I am fascinated by the dailies, what is daily.
~ Juan Ramón Jiménez
I have met men who are habitual liars. They have lied so long that they no longer can distinguish between the truth and a lie. Their sensitivity to sin has been almost completely deadened.
~ Billy Graham
The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing
~ Blaise Pascal