I find that even small changes sometimes jog you out of a mental rut.
Mainly, what I like to do is keep things varied and not get in a rut, not tell the same stories over and over.
All nature's creatures join to express nature's purpose. Somewhere in their mounting and mating, rutting and butting is the very secret of nature itself.
The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.
Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.
I visited those friends who'd just had a baby, and she was washing dishes and he was cleaning the house, and I burst with happiness. And in their minds, they were in this terrible domestic rut.
The Ruts were a great punk rock band from England whose songs were as excellent as their time together was short.
People are incapable of stereotyping you; you stereotype yourself because you're the one who accepts roles that put you in this rut or in this stereotype.
Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.
Much public thinking follows a rut. The same thing is true in science. People get stuck and don't look in other directions.
It's not him who's disturbed. But he likes to disturb others--to shake them out of their rut.
You have to remember the band played from 1960 to 1965, every night. You get into a rut playing nightclubs every night, and you didn't want to run it into the ground.
We walk ourselves into ruts so deep we cannot see over them.
A lot of artists who have a certain style are expected to more or less keep doing their style. It's so easy to get into that rut of production.
One of my biggest fears is not being able to break out of a rut; of becoming a prisoner to my ways, unable to change course. But in my mid-thirties, I learned you can change your thinking.
When you don't feel healthy, stop the excuses and do something. Just go outside, walk, breathe. Life's too short to fall into a rut. You are in charge of you - treat yourself well, and it'll show.
There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut; a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts.
Are we willing to shun vain repetition and keep our prayers out of an unchallenging rut by asking God to make us more sensitive to our own sin?
Kids don't have ruts yet that adults have carved into their minds. They're born logical. Crooked thinking has to be taught.
There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut.
A wife is meant to be cherished and to be treated with a gentle hand, while a mistress is a convenient cunt to rut in.
