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Quotes About Habits

Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.
~ George Herbert
The case for trade is not just monetary, but moral. Economic freedom creates habits of liberty. And habits of liberty create expectations of democracy.
~ George Walker Bush
Man would have known he was the son of God; and therein lies your miracle. And not just a notion picked up in books. Because we'd have made that idea the basis of everything: habits, customs, relaxation, pleasure, down to the simplest needs. That wouldn't have stopped the labourer ploughing, or the scientist swotting at his algorithms... what we would have torn from the very heart of Adam is the sense of his own loneliness.
~ Georges Bernanos
Our habits are our friends. Even our bad habits.
~ Georges Bernanos
Every grown-up man consists wholly of habits, although he is often unaware of it and even denies having any habits at all.
~ Georges Gurdjieff
What we need to question is bricks, concrete, glass, our table manners, our utensils, our tools, the way we spend our time, our rhythms. To question that which seems to have ceased forever to astonish us. We live, true, we breathe, true; we walk, we go downstairs, we sit at a table in order to eat, we lie down on a bed on order to sleep. How? Where? When? Why? Describe your street. Describe another. Compare.
~ Georges Perec
Every advance in social progress removes us more and more from the guidance of instinct, obliging us to depend upon reason for the assurance that our habits are really agreeable to the laws of health.
~ Emily Blackwell
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
~ Ralph W Sockman
Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them, either; they keep you.
~ Dr. Frank Crane
More and more these days I find myself pondering on how to reconcile my net income with my gross habits.
~ John Kirk Nelson
Keep doing what you're doing and you'll keep getting what you're getting.
~ Anonymous
One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones.
~ Bret Harte
When our vices leave us, we flatter ourselves with the credit of having left them.
~ La Rochefoucauld
Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats; neither fear nor shame can cure them.
~ Jean de La Fontaine
Needless fear and panic over disease or misfortune that seldom materialize are simply bad habits. By proper ventilation and illumination of the mind it is possible to cultivate tolerance, poise and real courage.
~ Elie Metchnikoff
Age 40 & the 40s. — People often say to a boy when he eats between meals: "It will spoil your dinner." But, piecing between meals never spoils your meals until after you pass forty.
~ E. W. Howe
Many people look forward to the new year for a new start on old habits.
~ Author Unknown
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~ ISIS
Valgymas yra ritualas, o ritualai lengvina gyvenimÄ….
~ J.M. Coetzee
The thing was, the places of your life, like the clothes you wore and the car you drove and the friends and associates you had, were a product of the way you lived.
~ J.R. Ward
I'm quite bingey; I'll be really healthy for two weeks, but then I'll be really crap for a week. I don't get ill, though.
~ Miquita Oliver
There are two types of people in the world: those who wear a watch and those who don't.
~ John Gruber
In many ways, journalism school and culinary school are quite similar. They both teach fundamental skills and habits, but ultimately you learn through on-the-job training.
~ Kathleen Flinn
I carry an umbrella when I am outdoors and always wear sunscreen, even when I am sitting in front of a computer screen! I never touch coffee or other caffeinated drinks.
~ Fan Bingbing