#habit

I was so much in the habit of having Albertine with me, and now I suddenly saw a new aspect of Habit. Hitherto I had regarded it chiefly as an annihilating force which suppresses the originality and even the awareness of one's perceptions; now I saw it as a dread deity, so riveted to one's being, its insignificant face so incrusted in one's heart, that if it detaches itself, if it turns away from one, this deity that one had barely distinguished inflicts on one sufferings more terrible than any other and is then as cruel as death itself. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#habit #loss #routine #change

She liked the life she had. She loved habits. She craved a day with nothing in it, a long, quiet stretch of hours in the studio. ↗

— Ann Brashares

#life #quiet #life

For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching has become a regular habit, until he is able to admit and accept what he finds, and until he patiently and persistently tries to correct what is wrong. – Bill W. ↗

— Bill W.

#habit #honesty #patience #perseverance #self-examination

Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day. ↗

— Alphonse de Lamartine

#habit #iron #leads #sinews #us

I don't make a habit of watching tennis matches, but I try to watch all the major finals. I try to make time for that. So unless I have something going with the kids where I can't, I try to watch, and I enjoy that. ↗

— Ivan Lendl

#finals #going #habit #i #kids

I'm a coffee enthusiast. I try not to have too many bad habits. ↗

— Taylor Hanson

#bad habits #coffee #enthusiast #habits #i

Change might not be fast and it isn't always easy. But with time and effort, almost any habit can be reshaped. ↗

— Charles Duhigg

#business

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy. ↗

— Napolean Hill

#formed #good #habit #happy #instead

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday. ↗

— Napoleon Hill

#bad #bad habit #been #before #day

When I was a young man and very well thought of, I couldn't ask aught that the ladies denied. I nibbled their hearts like a handful of raisins, And I never spoke love but I knew that I lied. But I said to myself, 'Ah, they none of them know The secret I shelter and savor and save I wait for the one who will see through my seeming, And I'll know when I love by the way I behave.' The years drifted over like clouds in the heavens; The ladies went by me like snow on the wind. I charmed and I cheated, deceived and dissembled, And I sinned, and I sinned, and I sinned, and I sinned. But I said to myself, 'Ah, they none of them see There's part of me pure as the whisk of a wave. My lady is late but she'll find I've been faithful, And I'll know when I love by the way I behave.' At last came a lady both knowing and tender, Saying, 'you're not at all what they take you to be.' I betrayed her before she had quite finished speaking, And she swallowed cold poison and jumped in the sea. And I say to myself when there's time for a word, As I gracefully grow more debauched and depraved, 'Ah, love may be strong, but a habit is stronger And I knew when I loved by the way I behaved. ↗

— Peter S. Beagle

#destructiveness #habit #lament #sin #vice