#habits

The pains of disconcerted or frustrated habits, and the inherent pleasure there is in following them, are motives which nature has put into our wills without generally caring to inform us why; and she sometimes decrees, indeed, that her reasons shall not be ours. ↗

— Chauncey Wright

#decrees #following #frustrated #generally #habits

Good habits are the basic tools that will determine whether you are a tortoise or hare in life! ↗

— Lucas Remmerswaal

#hare #inspirational-success-failure #tortoise #warren-buffett #inspirational

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old - old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something. ↗

— Rush Limbaugh

#beliefs #both #cannot #cases #contact

In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike. ↗

— Walter Pater

#alike #even #eye #failure #form

It is more true to say that our opinions depend upon our lives and habits, than to say that our lives and habits depend on our opinions. ↗

— Frederick William Robertson

#habits #lives #more #opinions #our

He was one of those men, and they are not the commonest, of whom we can know the best only by following them away from the marketplace, the platform, and the pulpit, entering with them into their own homes, hearing the voice with which they speak to the young and aged about their own hearthstone, and witnessing their thoughtful care for the everyday wants of everyday companions, who take all their kindness as a matter of course, and not as a subject for panegyric. ↗

— George Eliot

#humility #lifestyle #relationships #age

I read a lot of history, biographies, science, and novels,' he says, ushering a reporter out the door with a hint of relief. 'I do not read management or economics.' (from an interview in the Christian Science Monitor, July 26, 1993) ↗

— Peter F. Drucker

#reading-habits #life

If you do not pour water on your plant, what will happen? It will slowly wither and die. Our habits will also slowly wither and die away if we do not give them an opportunity to manifest. You need not fight to stop a habit. Just don’t give it an opportunity to repeat itself. (67) ↗

— Swami Satchidananda

#good-habits #habits #yoga

Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work. ↗

— Clarence Darrow

#bad #bad habits #habits #people #these

Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#habits #hairy #man #probably