#habits

The soul grows into lovely habits as easily as into ugly ones, and the moment a life begins to blossom into beautiful words and deeds, that moment a new standard of conduct is established, and your eager neighbors look to you for a continuous manifestation of the good cheer, the sympathy, the ready wit, the comradeship, or the inspiration, you once showed yourself capable of. Bear figs for a season or two, and the world outside the orchard is very unwilling you should bear thistles. ↗

— Kate Douglas Wiggin

#friends #habits #neighbors #beauty

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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Out of my discomforts, which were small enough, grew one thing for which I have all my life been grateful, the formation of fixed habits of work. ↗

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

#enough #fixed #formation #grateful #grew

I'm not a politician and my other habits are good. ↗

— Charles Farrar Browne

#habits #i #other #politician

The chances of a person breaking through their own habits and sloth and limited mind to actually write something that gets out there and matters to people are slim. ↗

— George Saunders

#breaking #chances #gets #habits #limited

Americans love to hear good things about their bad habits. ↗

— T. Colin Campbell

#habits #health #nutrition #diet

Crash diets don't work. They don't work for losing weight, they don't work for making sales quota and they don't work for getting and keeping a job. The reason they don't work has nothing to do with what's on the list of things to be done (or consumed). No, the reason they don't work is that they don't change habits, and habits are where our lives and careers and bodies are made. ↗

— Seth Godin

#change

It is facile to imply that smoking, alcoholism, overeating, or other ingrained patters can be upended without real effort. Genuine change requires work and self-understanding of the cravings driving behaviours. ↗

— Charles Duhigg

#business

Weight loss is a sum of all of your habits - not individual ones. ↗

— Helen M. Ryan

#healthy-habits #new-habits #weight-loss #weightloss #change

The game had to be played the same way every day or the pieces would fall to the floor, the board would collapse, and the illusion that you were shaping your own life, that you were in control, would break. ↗

— Kevin Brockmeier

#control #habits #change