Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.
Emotions manipulates the man more than habits do.
Vices are often habits rather than passions.
My worst habit is whistling while I sleep.
I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming.
The habit of looking at life as a social relation — an affair of society — did no good. It cultivated a weakness which needed no cultivation. If it had helped to make men of the world, or give the manners and instincts of any profession — such ...
She's on the stairs, ma'am, getting her breath,' said the young servant, who had not been long up from the country, where my mother had the excellent habit of getting all her servants. Often she had seen them born. That's the only way to get really g...
There's more to people than some defined label," said Arcie. "There are more than straight good and evil, aye, even more than law or disorders or fence-sittin. There's prejudice, whimsey, affection, superstition, habit, upbringing, alliance, pride, s...
Sadly, many storytellers and artists are still addicted to the old delusions (happy is boring, evil is interesting) about the risks of good mental health. Even those who don’t view peace of mind as a threat to their creative power often believe tha...
Good Being is knowing who in fact we are; and in order to know who in fact we are, we must first know, moment by moment, who we think we are and what this bad habit of thought compels us to feel and do. A moment of clear and complete knowledge of wha...
The critical habit of thought, if usual in society, will pervade all its mores, because it is a way of taking up the problems of life. Men educated in it cannot be stampeded by stump orators ... They are slow to believe. They can hold things as possi...
At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.
Don't let your habits become handcuffs
Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.
Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.
If you become president, you're guaranteed to develop some nervous habit.
Procrastination is probably my worst habit out of many. Especially when it comes to paperwork.
The habits of the American consumer are changing; that's a reality.
Happiness is a habit, it’s more than fleeting, more than a disintegrating lozenge.
Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
