#habit

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. ↗

— Eustace Budgell

#friendship #good #habitual #happiness #inclination

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#control #dependent #destiny #determines #extent

The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#disposal #each #elastic #feel #fills

I've directed a couple of times in the theater, but I wouldn't make a habit of it because it's too consuming. ↗

— Brian Cox

#consuming #couple #directed #habit #i

Until very recently men and women inhabited very separate spheres. There was always interconnection, passion, love. But men and women didn't hang out at the end of the day and chat about what their day was like at the office. ↗

— Anita Diament

#always #chat #day #end #end of the day

In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits. ↗

— Robert Hall

#fixing #habits #intellectual #lies #most

Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted. ↗

— Carolyn Heilbrun

#devoted #dirty #habit #i #i am

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#arrested #been #chance #child-like #cocoon

Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness. ↗

— Helen Keller

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Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#belong #eternal #eternal world #half #humans