I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.
Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.
I got into this little habit of architecture and building. I designed a house in Colorado and one in Hawaii. The idea is supposed to be build and sell - but then I can never bring myself to sell them.
Really, it had been stupid to expect anything anyway. A few late nights does not a habit, or a relationship, make.
People don't care about being duped as long as they're happy, which is the shortest form of happiness; hence 'self-duprication' becomes a habit.
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.
It wouldn’t matter if he was a bad boy , if you got rid of your bad habit. Be encouraged
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.
Selfishness is a bad habit. That’s why I always rationally think through my decisions to act without regard for others.
One bad habit people do way past the age they should be doing it is living. The youth of today, they’re so old.
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
