#habits

It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them. ↗

— Alfred Russel Wallace

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Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive. ↗

— Edith Wharton

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A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune. ↗

— Richard Whately

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The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind. ↗

— Francis Wright

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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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It will be difficult to break the habits of thinking Abnegation instilled in me, like tugging a single thread from a complex work of embroidery. But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#habits #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

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

— Taylor Hanson

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

— Charles Duhigg

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