You've recognised a fundamental feature of an addict's life. Maintaining your habit is so important you've no real interest in anything else.
Habits of action cultivated early in life lay the foundation for unique skill sets able to carve a path beyond the mundane and into the relevant.
All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art.
Perhaps he simply assumed: a bitterness of habit, of boy after boy trained for music and medicine, and unleashed for murder.
Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers.
Aren't we all in varying degrees, captives in our own personal prisons, bound by our limiting habits?
Today's satori: Such a change of mind would Not exist without My lifelong habit of having My mind immersed in blossoms.
Making love is second to none. My masturbating habits are first to none.
Of all mankind's unpleasant habits, sheer and willful cruelty is the most base, the least forgivable and, when carried to its extreme, perhaps the most horrific.
Out of old habit, I put my hand on my collarbone, touching a cross that was no longer there. I prayed silently.
The anaesthetic effect of habit being destroyed, I would begin to think - and to feel - such melancholy things.
Such actions are beyond praise: it is the perfume of such sweet and noble human sympathy that makes this wild beasts' cage a world habitable for men.
The challenge, it turns out, isn’t in perfecting your ability to know when to start and when to stand by. The challenge is getting into the habit of
Helios thought he looked pretty hot, and he had an annoying habit of calling the sun his "chick magnet.
But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.
Curiosity is the hair of our habit tending to stand on end. It rarely happens that our attention is not stained in greater or lesser degree by this animal element.
Love of freedom is this: Once you're tempted there's no escape, It's a habit that never gets old, A dream that is truer than reality.
Memory and Habit are attributes of the Time cancer. They control the most simple Proustian episode, and an understanding of their mechanism must precede any particular analysis of their application.
...and how is a man to know the habits of their God, whether He smites suddenly or withholds, if you mishandle the things set apart, the objects of His people He is jealous of.
Err, sorry Father Abbot. I tripped y'see. Trod on my Abbot, Father Habit. Oh dear, I mean....
By way of watching your mind, you will see life beyond a mere set of habits, emotions and beliefs.
