#habits

The UN declaration on human rights must always be first in line before religion or other cultural habits, in case of any conflict between them. ↗

— Bjorn Ulvaeus

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Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs. ↗

— Marlene Dietrich

#habits #rather #superstitions #than

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'. ↗

— Wayne Dyer

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So why bother investing in one’s memory in an age of externalized memories? The best answer I can give is the one I received unwittingly from EP, whose memory had been so completely lost that he could not place himself in time or space, or relative to other people. That is: How we perceive the world and how we act in it are products of how and what we remember. We’re all just a bundle of habits shaped by our memories. And to the extent that we control our lives, we do so by gradually altering those habits, which is to say the networks of our memories. No lasting joke, invention, insight, or work of art was ever produced by an external memory. Not yet, at least. Our ability to find humor in the world, to make connections between previously unconnected notions, to create new ideas, to share in a common culture: All these essentially human acts depend on memory. Now more than ever, as the role of memory in our culture erodes at a faster pace than ever before, we need to cultivate our ability to remember. Our memories make us who we are. They are the seat of our values and source of our character. ↗

— Joshua Foer

#habits #human #memory #perception #remembering

I couldn’t go back to my apartment. I was forever estranged from my place of habit – the carpet I would ash my cigarettes on, the gin bathtub where I would soak to keep my weight down and stir my medicines, the couch full of holes from slippery syringes, the stack of old newspapers I would reread. ↗

— Benson Bruno

#funny #home #funny

Z is for Zany! Master the Zany habit of thinking backwards. it will help you become a really great thinker! ↗

— Lucas Remmerswaal

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

— Taylor Hanson

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An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#bad #easier #give #good #good habits

I feel that between my experience and my mother's, breast cancer is a little bit like someone who lives next door. I know what that person looks like and what their daily habits are. ↗

— Cynthia Nixon

#bit #breast cancer #cancer #daily #door

Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted. ↗

— Ralph W. Sockman

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