#habit

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead. ↗

— Albert Camus

#before #body #daily #death #get

You lose your habitual behavior, which allowed you to sort of zone out. You have to be here, you have to be now, you have to be present. ↗

— Sally Field

#behavior #habitual #here #lose #now

Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old. ↗

— John Ciardi

#dependence #excitement #habituation #label #love is

Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#adapt #exert #first #freedom #fruitful

One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#does #fatherland #inhabit #inhabits #language

It doesn't matter if you prefer reading James Joyce or "James and the Giant Peach." Those who read more read better. ↗

— Danny Brassell

#motivation #reading-habits #motivational

I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic - the rituals and habits and patterns. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#claustrophobic #domestic #domestic life #domesticated #find

If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#animal #belong #consciousness #difficult #feelings

Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#been #discover #exceeding #given #good

I have worked with Habitat for Humanity for awhile. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#habitat #humanity #i #worked