#discipline

As his mind becomes purer and his emotions come under control, his thoughts become clearer and his instincts truer. As he learns to live more and more in harmony with his higher Self, his body's natural intuition becomes active of itself. The result is that false desires and unnatural instincts which have been imposed upon it by others or by himself will become weaker and weaker and fall away entirely in time. This may happen without any attempt to undergo an elaborate system of self-discipline on his part: yet it will affect his way of living, his diet, his habits. False cravings like the craving for smoking tobacco will vanish of their own accord; false appetites like the appetite for alcoholic liquor or flesh food will likewise vanish; but the more deep-seated the desire, the longer it will take to uproot it--except in the case of some who will hear and answer a heroic call for an abrupt change. ↗

— Paul Brunton

#habit #health #yoga #change

Self-discipline is an act of cultivation. It require you to connect today's actions to tomorrow's results. There's a season for sowing a season for reaping. Self-discipline helps you know which is which. ↗

— Gary Ryan Blair

#actions #connect #cultivation #helps #know

I think that discipline is so much of an important part of being a parent. Because it's very, very important to teach your children to take responsibility for their actions. ↗

— Cheryl Ladd

#because #being #children #discipline #i

There are some centuries which - apart from everything else - in the art and other disciplines presume to remake everything because they know how to make nothing. ↗

— Giacomo Leopardi

#art #because #centuries #disciplines #else

I don't think the Bonzo Dog could have evolved in America, nor could the old Nice: because of their musical discipline. This is one thing that British groups do have, a sort of discipline. Sometimes it can get a bit soulless, but on the whole I think it's preferable to the American alternative. ↗

— Jon Lord

#america #american #because #bit #british

And ours is a business that requires discipline and focus. ↗

— Jim Cantalupo

#discipline #focus #ours #requires

There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period. ↗

— Ted Nugent

#alcohol #bad #children #comes #country

Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#biggest #dependent #easier #fight #happiness

We find that the Romans owed the conquest of the world to no other cause than continual military training, exact observance of discipline in their camps, and unwearied cultivation of the other arts of war. ↗

— Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

#camps #cause #conquest #continual #cultivation

Women may give lip service to wanting husbands who take on an equal role in raising children, but many will pull rank when an important decision, like how to discipline or what baby sitter to hire, has to be made. ↗

— Pepper Schwartz

#children #decision #discipline #equal #give