Habit Quotes
Here is the piece. If you can't say fornicate can you say copulate or if not that can you say co-habit? If not that would have to say consummate I suppose. Use your own good taste and judgment.
Those old habits don't have to be erased, they just become replaced by a new habit that is more in vibrational harmony with who you are and what you want.
I first began to read religious books at school, and especially the Bible, when I was eleven years old; and almost immediately commenced a habit of secret prayer.
We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
An important species of pleasure, and therewith the source of morality, arises out of habit.
One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.
There is magic in knocking down your most important domino day after day. All you have to do is avoid breaking the chain, one day at a time, until you generate a powerful new habit in your life.
To eat meat is just a habit after we were born. In fact, we are not born to eat meat.
Ease leads to habit, as success to ease. He lives by rule who lives himself to please.
As widowers proverbially marry again, so a man with the habit of friendship always finds new friends.
Maybe Himalayan climbing is just a bad habit, like smoking, of which one says with cavalier abandon, must give this up some day, before it kills me.
Men prefer the false due to habit, passion, will. Preference for truth is rare. Men are ruled by their fear of truth.
Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet.
I play every day. It's like a habit for me now. I just, if I don't play, I kind of miss - something's off.
A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.
How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.
People who are so dreadfully "devoted" to their wives are so apt, from mere habit, to get devoted to other people's wives as well.
It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.
When you showed someone how you felt, it was fesh and honest. Whe you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation.
...in the habit of watching every bit of human life I can see about my windows, but I do it so that I am not observed at it.
Newspaper people have a habit of putting you in the front pages to sell their papers, and then after they've sold their papers and got big circulations, they say, 'Look at what we've done for you
I got a wonderful college education. I went to Harvard. In those four years I accumulated a lot of knowledge but I also created a kind of habit of learning that has stayed with me my whole life.
Habits wear more constantly and with greatest force than reason, which, when we have most need of it, is seldom fairly consulted, and more rarely obeyed
In writing, habit seems to be a much stronger force than either willpower or inspiration.
How can the poem and the stink and the grating noise - the quality of light, the tone, the habit and the dream - be set down alive?
...the habit of falling hardens the body, reaching the ground, to in itself, is a relief.
I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent.
It is easy to assume a habit; but when you try to cast it off, it will take skin and all.
...long before the child learns to talk properly-and long before it learns to think philosophically-the world will have become a habit. A pity, if you ask me.
There is value in long years of obscurity, if one doesn't go insane or suicidal, in that, simply because nobody is looking, the habit of fooling around and trying things out gets ingrained.
Some people pass through life soberly and religiously enough, without knowing way, or reasoning about it, but, from force of habit merely, go to heaven like fools.
Just after I entered my teens I suddenly entertained an insatiable enthusiasm for the delightful habit of criticizing others.
My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history.
The habit of arguing in support of atheism, whether it be done from conviction or in pretense, is a wicked and impious practice.
Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.
Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
It is a great proof of talents to be able to recall the mind from the senses, and to separate thought from habit.
Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don't have time to read