habit

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
227ef12	"YOU FEAR TO DIE? "It's not that I don't want... I mean, I've always...it's just that life is a habit that's hard to break..."	fear humor life habit	Terry Pratchett
a0541e3	Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do).	skill knowledge habit	Stephen R. Covey
4f4f5df	When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation.	words feelings love truth show habit	Jodi Picoult
e78dd42	Some of the freckles I once loved are now closer to liver spots. But it's still the eyes we look at, isn't it? That's where we found the other person, and find them still.	marriage love familiarity contentment long-term-relationships habit	Julian Barnes
b9e2171	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.	destructiveness lament vice sin habit	Peter S. Beagle
d5406c0	He that becomes protector of sin shall surely become its prisoner.	lust sin habit	Augustine of Hippo
0f40a83	She had been too early habituated to anxious reasoning to drop the habit suddenly.	faith conditioning worry habit	Thomas Hardy
b8c9f7f	The customs and practices of life in society sweep us along.	habit	Michel de Montaigne
1f0769f	In truth, the crossing from nature to culture and vice versa has always stood wide open. It leads across an easily accessible bridge: the practising life. People have committed themselves to its construction since they came into existence - or rather, people only came into existence by applying themselves to the building of said bridge. The human being is the pontifical creature that, from its earliest evolutionary stages, has created tradition-compatible connections between the bridgeheads in the bodily realm and those in cultural programes. From the start, nature and culture are linked by a broad middle ground of embodied practices - containing languages, rituals and technical skills, in so far as these factors constitute the universal forms of automatized artificialities. This intermediate zone forms a morphologically rich, variable and stable region that can, for the time being, be referred to sufficiently clearly with such conventional categories as education, etiquette, custom, habit formation, training and exercise - without needing to wait for the purveyors of the 'human sciences', who, with all their bluster about culture, create the confusion for whose resolution they subsequently offer their services.	exercise nature education custom etiquette human-sciences training practising habit	Peter Sloterdijk
d534c2d	How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. -Annie Dillard	hygge lives habit	Louisa Thomsen Brits
2a4003f	Exchange the bad habit of worrying with the excellent habit of trusting God.	prayer faith trust god excellent exchange worry habit	Elizabeth George
c994c61	His eagerness had turned into a routine; he embraced her at the same time every day. It was a habit like any other, a favourite pudding after the monotony of dinner.	marriage routine husband habit	Gustave Flaubert
4aaf8de	Indeed he had worn that piece of furniture - or symbol of bone-laziness - into such a shape as made the descent of any other body than his own into that crater of undulating horsehair a hazardous enterprise.	lazy habit	Mervyn Peake
5bc7d3d	What do you expect? This place is one big anti-climax.	hopelessness time existence futility apathy existentialism hopeless habit	Michel Faber
df37ebf	"Forrest Gander: "Maybe the best we can do is try to leave ourselves unprotected. To keep brushing off habits, how we see things and what we expect, as they crust around us. Brushing the green flies of the usual off the tablecloth. To pay attention."	wonder inspirational habit	Brian Christian
8b1a21c	Curiosity is the hair of our habit tending to stand on end. It rarely happens that our attention is not stained in greater or lesser degree by this animal element.	habit	Samuel Beckett
80b5de9	I am deep in my willed habits. From the outside, I suppose I look like an unoccupied house with one unconvincing night-light left on. Any burglar could look through my curtains and conclude I am empty. But he would be mistaken. Under that one light unstirred by movement or shadows there is a man at work, and as long as I am at work I am not a candidate for Menlo Park, or that terminal facility they cynically call a convalescent hospital, or a pine box. My habits and the unchanging season sustain me. Evil is what questions and disrupts.	work emptiness habits old-age evil habit	Wallace Stegner
28af4e1	Every repast can have soul and can be enchanting; it asks for only a small degree of mindfulness and a habit of doing things with care and imagination. -Thomas Moore	imagination enchanting mindfulness hygge soul habit	Louisa Thomsen Brits
5a2fdc6	One-year enlistment had proven problematic since the troops were scheduled to rotate out of the army just when they had begun to internalize the discipline of military service and became reliable soldiers.	internalization professionalism discipline habit	Joseph J. Ellis
ad75303	My life of conversation leads me to reimagine the very meaning of hope. I define hope as distinct from optimism or idealism. It has nothing to do with wishing. It references reality at every turn and reveres truth. It lives open eyed and wholeheartedly with the darkness that is woven ineluctably into the light of life and sometimes seems to overcome it. Hope, like every virtue, is a choice that becomes a habit that becomes spiritual muscle memory.	virtue spirit faith religion spiritual hope truth wholeheartedness on-being enoughness habit	Krista Tippett

227ef12

"YOU FEAR TO DIE? "It's not that I don't want... I mean, I've always...it's just that life is a habit that's hard to break..."

fear humor life habit

Terry Pratchett

a0541e3

Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do).

skill knowledge habit

Stephen R. Covey

4f4f5df

When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation.

words feelings love truth show habit

Jodi Picoult

e78dd42

Some of the freckles I once loved are now closer to liver spots. But it's still the eyes we look at, isn't it? That's where we found the other person, and find them still.

marriage love familiarity contentment long-term-relationships habit

Julian Barnes

b9e2171

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.

destructiveness lament vice sin habit

Peter S. Beagle

d5406c0

He that becomes protector of sin shall surely become its prisoner.

lust sin habit

Augustine of Hippo

0f40a83

She had been too early habituated to anxious reasoning to drop the habit suddenly.

faith conditioning worry habit

Thomas Hardy

b8c9f7f

The customs and practices of life in society sweep us along.

habit

Michel de Montaigne

1f0769f

In truth, the crossing from nature to culture and vice versa has always stood wide open. It leads across an easily accessible bridge: the practising life. People have committed themselves to its construction since they came into existence - or rather, people only came into existence by applying themselves to the building of said bridge. The human being is the pontifical creature that, from its earliest evolutionary stages, has created tradition-compatible connections between the bridgeheads in the bodily realm and those in cultural programes. From the start, nature and culture are linked by a broad middle ground of embodied practices - containing languages, rituals and technical skills, in so far as these factors constitute the universal forms of automatized artificialities. This intermediate zone forms a morphologically rich, variable and stable region that can, for the time being, be referred to sufficiently clearly with such conventional categories as education, etiquette, custom, habit formation, training and exercise - without needing to wait for the purveyors of the 'human sciences', who, with all their bluster about culture, create the confusion for whose resolution they subsequently offer their services.

exercise nature education custom etiquette human-sciences training practising habit

Peter Sloterdijk

d534c2d

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. -Annie Dillard

hygge lives habit

Louisa Thomsen Brits

2a4003f

Exchange the bad habit of worrying with the excellent habit of trusting God.

prayer faith trust god excellent exchange worry habit

Elizabeth George

c994c61

His eagerness had turned into a routine; he embraced her at the same time every day. It was a habit like any other, a favourite pudding after the monotony of dinner.

marriage routine husband habit

Gustave Flaubert

4aaf8de

Indeed he had worn that piece of furniture - or symbol of bone-laziness - into such a shape as made the descent of any other body than his own into that crater of undulating horsehair a hazardous enterprise.

lazy habit

Mervyn Peake

5bc7d3d

What do you expect? This place is one big anti-climax.

hopelessness time existence futility apathy existentialism hopeless habit

Michel Faber

df37ebf

"Forrest Gander: "Maybe the best we can do is try to leave ourselves unprotected. To keep brushing off habits, how we see things and what we expect, as they crust around us. Brushing the green flies of the usual off the tablecloth. To pay attention."

wonder inspirational habit

Brian Christian

8b1a21c

Curiosity is the hair of our habit tending to stand on end. It rarely happens that our attention is not stained in greater or lesser degree by this animal element.

habit

Samuel Beckett

80b5de9

I am deep in my willed habits. From the outside, I suppose I look like an unoccupied house with one unconvincing night-light left on. Any burglar could look through my curtains and conclude I am empty. But he would be mistaken. Under that one light unstirred by movement or shadows there is a man at work, and as long as I am at work I am not a candidate for Menlo Park, or that terminal facility they cynically call a convalescent hospital, or a pine box. My habits and the unchanging season sustain me. Evil is what questions and disrupts.

work emptiness habits old-age evil habit

Wallace Stegner

28af4e1

Every repast can have soul and can be enchanting; it asks for only a small degree of mindfulness and a habit of doing things with care and imagination. -Thomas Moore

imagination enchanting mindfulness hygge soul habit

Louisa Thomsen Brits

5a2fdc6

One-year enlistment had proven problematic since the troops were scheduled to rotate out of the army just when they had begun to internalize the discipline of military service and became reliable soldiers.

internalization professionalism discipline habit

Joseph J. Ellis

ad75303

My life of conversation leads me to reimagine the very meaning of hope. I define hope as distinct from optimism or idealism. It has nothing to do with wishing. It references reality at every turn and reveres truth. It lives open eyed and wholeheartedly with the darkness that is woven ineluctably into the light of life and sometimes seems to overcome it. Hope, like every virtue, is a choice that becomes a habit that becomes spiritual muscle memory.

virtue spirit faith religion spiritual hope truth wholeheartedness on-being enoughness habit

Krista Tippett