Quotes About Habits

This is the happiness of egolessness. It's the joy of realizing there is no prison; there are only very strong habits, and no sane reason for strengthening them further. In essence these habits are insubstantial. Moreover, there is no solid self-identity or separateness. We've invented it all. It is this realization that we want for the endless multitudes of beings.

Meditation is a process of transformation, instead of a process of becoming more and more set in our ways. And, as you know, as we get older it's very common to become increasingly fixed in our habits. But then you do meet people who, for some reason, are becoming more and more flexible and open as they age. Which kind of person do you want to be?

That's what the dharma is about; turning all our habits around, reversing the process of how we make everything so solid, reversing the wheel of samsara. It starts with catching ourselves when we spin off in the same old ways. Usually we feel that there's a large problem and we have to fix it. The instruction is to stop. Do something unfamiliar. Do anything besides rushing off in the same old direction, up to the same old tricks.

It is only when we begin to relax with ourselves that meditation becomes a transformative process. Only when we relate with ourselves without moralizing, without harshness, without deception, can we let go of harmful patterns. Without maitri (metta), renunciation of old habits becomes abusive. This is an important point.

You should not change yourself, but create yourself, that mean build around your strengths and removing bad habits

We need to encourage habits of flexibility, of continuous learning, and of acceptance of change as normal and as opportunity - for institutions as well as for individuals.

Sow a thought, reap an act. Sow an act, reap a habit. Sow a habit, reap a character. Sow a character, reap a destiny.

manifests a good person, a good character, a good habit, and also because good deeds gradually form good habits, good character, good persons.

The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or acquiring some new and better ones.

Kita hidup dalam sangkar yang terbuat dari tuntutan, rutinitas, dan kebiasaan, dan setelah begitu lama hidup dalam batas-batas ini, kita lupa bahwa sesungguhnya terperangkap

The world news had been depressing throughout most of his life, but this past two or three years, it had seemed even more so, with the parade of creepy and dangerous clowns that British and American politics had become, the nuclear threat growing and Russia up to her old habits.

I don't like rats any more than the next bloke, but they ain't wicked and cruel like people can be. They're just ratty in their habits.

Who we are is the result of how we live and act on a daily basis. Our daily actions reflect our prime values and motivations.

As a leftist I had developed habits of mind that caused me to look at "classes" rather than individuals, at social structures and general paradigms rather than at particular events or individual personalities that could be dismissed as incidental or unique.

Half the people I know have dead animals in their freezers: reptiles, birds, mammals. Is that normal?

As students, we have all known two types of teachers, the pedantic and the inspiring. The former have a definite method and operate according to well-established habits; the latter need neither, because they know the subject through and through, Indeed, we may say that teaching methods, which generate subjective habits, are but poor substitutes for the kind of objective intimacy with the subject matter to be taught, which we call 'habitus

Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis.

It's always morning for me until 4 in the afternoon.

I don't eat anything on an airplane.

I'm up around 11am to my alarm. Without it I'd sleep into the afternoon.

I only sleep about four or five hours a night. I read all night long.

I can't drink anything after 9 P.M. otherwise I'm up all night.

I don't think people watch too much TV anymore. I don't.

Os excessos em todas as coisas modelam os corpos segundo suas características. A bebedeira, como o estudo, engorda mais aos gordos e emagrece aos magros.