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HABITS QUOTES

HABITS QUOTES

“The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.”
― Albert Camus

“I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life.”
― Warren Buffett

“The moment you become aware of the ego in you, it is strictly speaking no longer the ego, but just an old, conditioned mind-pattern. Ego implies unawareness. Awareness and ego cannot coexist.”
― Eckhart Tolle

“Change might not be fast and it isn’t always easy. But with time and effort, almost any habit can be reshaped.”
― Charles Duhigg

“The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.”
― Samuel Johnson

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
― Will Durant

“An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate.”
― Criss Jami

“We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.”
― Albert Camus

“You can’t make yourself feel positive, but you can choose how to act, and if you choose right, it builds your confidence.”
― Julien Smith

“A morning coffee is my favorite way of starting the day, settling the nerves so that they don’t later fray.”
― Marcia Carrington

“A nail is driven out by another nail; habit is overcome by habit.”
― Erasmus

“If our mind remains freeze-framed by inhibiting and hampering habits, in an ever-changing world, we won’t be able to get rid of that weird feeling of not belonging anywhere and not taking part in authentic life challenges. (“Not on the shortlist”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“If you believe you can change – if you make it a habit – the change becomes real.”
― Charles Duhigg

“Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.”
― Mark Twain

“There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.”
― William James

“All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits – practical, emotional, and intellectual – systematically organized for our weal or woe, and bearing us irresistibly toward our destiny, whatever the latter may be.” – William James”
― Charles Duhigg

“A man who can’t bear to share his habits is a man who needs to quit them.”
― Stephen King

“It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that whatever you say to them, they always purr.”
― Lewis Carroll

“Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. How do you get it? You act enthusiastic until you make it a habit.”
― Gordon Parks

“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”
― Jim Ryun

“The best kind of happiness is a habit you’re passionate about.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Good habits are worth being fanatical about.”
― John Irving

“Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?”
― Idries Shah

“Some rules are nothing but old habits that people are afraid to change.”
― Therese Fowler

“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

“I am a Smedry, and we do ridiculous, unexpected, eccentric things like this all the time! Ha-ha!”
― Brandon Sanderson

“…it is not possible to create the opposite of what one has always known, simply because the opposite is believed to be desired. Human beings need what they already know, even horrors.”
― A.S. Byatt

“Habits stay with you even when you don’t have the motivation.”
― Neeraj Agnihotri

“You have a bad habit of listing anything that can go wrong, Volger.”
“I have always considered that a good habit”
― Scott Westerfeld

“Perbedaan antara bisa dengan tidak bisa itu sangat sederhana, yaitu habits.”
― Felix Y. Siauw

“Children should never have baths,’ my grandmother said. ‘It’s a dangerous
habit.’
‘I agree, Grandmamma.”
― Roald Dahl

“Good habits are the key to all success. Bad habits are the unlocked door to failure.”
― Og Mandino

“Great people become great due to the framework, routines and habits they have set for themselves”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Sometimes I get the feeling that we’re just a bunch of habits. The gestures we repeat over and over, they’re just our need to be recognized. Without them, we’d be unidentifiable. We have to reinvent ourselves every minute.”
― Nicole Krauss

“Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts. They are strengthened by an increase in the number of repeated acts. Habits are also weakened or broken, and contrary habits are formed by the repetition of contrary acts.”
― Mortimer Adler

“The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
― Marcel Proust

“Some women have been faking orgasms for so long that they sometimes fake one when they are masturbating.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Your little choices become habits that affect the bigger decisions you make in life.”
― Elizabeth George

“Let go of your old tired habits and plant new habits in fertile soil.”
― Harley King

“If breaking a habit has been hard for you to do, hard for you even to face, then a helping hand is in order.”
― Kenneth Schwarz

“I don’t like good habits. They strike me as being so easily broken.”
― Linnea Gelland

“Environment is the invisible hand that shapes human behavior.”
― James Clear

“Authenticity is the key to building trust and credibility in personal and professional relationships.”
― Felecia Etienne

“The habits that govern our lives determines if we will be victors or victims.”
― Benjamin Suulola

“Create a music playlist that fuels your passion and motivates you to be the best version of yourself.”
― Felecia Etienne

“Success doesn’t happen alone. Find someone who gets you, someone who’s got your back, and someone who cheers you on as you chase your dreams.”
― Felecia Etienne


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ADVERSITY QUOTES

ADVERSITY QUOTES

“Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“If you want to find out what a man is to the bottom, give him power. Any man can stand adversity — only a great man can stand prosperity. It is the glory of Abraham Lincoln that he never abused power only on the side of mercy”
― Robert Ingersoll

“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”
― Maya Angelou

“Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.”
― Oprah Winfrey

“These are the times that try men’s souls.”
― Thomas Paine

“When the going gets tough, put one foot in front of the other and just keep going. Don’t give up.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“Whenever something bad happens, keep calm, take a few deep breaths and shift the focus to something positive.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse.”
― Randy Pausch

“Adversity is like a strong wind. I don’t mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are, and not merely as we might like to be.”
― Arthur Golden

“Often those that criticise others reveal what he himself lacks.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“I suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. We all of us have our particular devil who rides us and torments us, and we must give battle in the end.”
― Daphne Du Maurier

“When things do not go your way, remember that every challenge — every adversity — contains within it the seeds of opportunity and growth.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you.”
― Mary Tyler Moore

“Challenge and adversity are meant to help you know who you are. Storms hit your weakness, but unlock your true strength.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“I think that little by little I’ll be able to solve my problems and survive.”
― Frida Kahlo

“A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out.”
― Shannon l. Alder

“Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”
― J.K. Rowling

“Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.”
― Conrad Joseph

“The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.”
― Robert Jordan

“We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world”
― Helen Keller

“The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal.”
― Criss Jami

“The moon will guide you through the night with her brightness, but she will always dwell in the darkness, in order to be seen.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Your friends will believe in your potential, your enemies will make you live up to it.”
― Tim Fargo

“A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.”
― Criss Jami

“You don’t drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.”
― edwin louis cole

“Our most significant opportunities will be found in times of greatest difficulty.”
― Thomas S. Monson

“Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.”
― Aristotle

“Often people that criticise your life are usually the same people that don’t know the price you paid to get where you are today. True friends see the full picture of your soul.”
― Shannon Alder

“Life is at its best when everything has fallen out of place, and you decide that you’re going to fight to get them right, not when everything is going your way and everyone is praising you.”
― Thisuri Wanniarachchi

“If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr

“Being human is not hard because you’re doing it wrong, it’s hard because you’re doing it right.”
― Glennon Doyle

“If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it;
Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved.”
― Martin Luther

“There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, because he had learnt that some hard things became softer after a very little while.”
― Nick Hornby

“If for a while the harder you try, the harder it gets, take heart. So it has been with the best people who ever lived. (The Inconvenient Messiah, BYU Speeches, Feb 15, 1982)”
― Jeffrey R. Holland

“Bullying builds character like nuclear waste creates superheroes. It’s a rare occurrence and often does much more damage than endowment.”
― Zack W. Van

“Nobody is exempt from the trials of life, but everyone can always find something positive in everything even in the worst of times.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That’s real glory. Thats the essence of it.”
― Vince Lombardi


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SELF AWARENESS QUOTES [BLOG#23]


“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
― C.G. Jung


“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
― C.G. Jung

“When you’re different, sometimes you don’t see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn’t.”
― Jodi Picoult


“But you can’t get away from yourself. You can’t decide not to see yourself anymore. You can’t decide to turn off the noise in your head.”
― Jay Asher

“There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.”
― J. Michael Straczynski


“you can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“I think….you still have no idea. The effect you can have.”
― Suzanne Collins


“Strong people have a strong sense of self-worth and self-awareness; they don’t need the approval of others.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?”
― Marcus Aurelius


“Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.”
― André Malraux

“I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right.”
― Muhammad Ali Jinnah


“The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.”
― Jim Morrison

“Find out who you are and do it on purpose.”
― Dolly Parton



“You’ve always been what you are. That’s not new. What you’ll get used to is knowing it.”
― Cassandra Clare

“Don’t compromise yourself. You’re all you’ve got.”
― Janis Joplin


“She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.”
― Jane Austen

“I like to have powerful enemies. Makes me feel important.”
― Leigh Bardugo


“Anyone who knows me, should learn to know me again;
For I am like the Moon,
you will see me with new face everyday.”
― Rumi

“You don’t need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!”
― John Lennon


“It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.”
― Abraham Harold Maslow

“Never try to do anything that is outside of who you are. A forced smile is a sign of what feels wrong in your heart, so recognize it when it happens. Living a lie will reduce you to one.”
― Ashly Lorenzana


“I mean, I feel secure in my masculinity, too. Being secure in your masculinity isn’t the same as being straight.”
― Becky Albertalli

“Only you can take inner freedom away from yourself, or give it to yourself. Nobody else can.”
― Michael A. Singer


“A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.”
― David Sedaris

“I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.”
― Socrates


“Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.”
― G.I. Gurdjieff

“My friend…care for your psyche…know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves” -Socrates”
― Socrates


“We are at our most powerful the moment we no longer need to be powerful.”
― Eric Micha’el Leventhal

“I think that’s the real loss of innocence: the first time you glimpse the boundaries that will limit your potential.”
― Steve Toltz


“The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass available.”
― Theodor W. Adorno

“Have love for your inner Self and everything else is done for you.”
― Amit Ray


“It is in the healing of self-blame and judgement, that the self is liberated from the constraints of binding emotions…And you come to remember your true authentic self.”
― Wendy E. Slater

“At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures – be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.”
― Albert Camus


“She was a wicked thing sometimes. All full of want. As if the shape of the world depended on her mood. As if she were important.”
― Patrick Rothfuss

“The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely living in the realism of NOW.”
― Shannon L. Alder


“There is a God part in you. The consciousness. The pure Self. Learn to listen the voice of that Power.”
― Amit Ray

“It is not the the bruises on the body that hurt. It is the wounds of the heart and the scars on the mind.”
― Aisha Mirza


“At the core of your heart, you are perfect and pure. No one and nothing can alter that.”
― Amit Ray

“You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should’ve behaved better.”
― Anne Lamott


“Write it on your heart you are the most beautiful soul of the Universe. Realize it, honor it and celebrate the life.”
― Amit Ray

“We always find something, eh Didi, to let us think we exist?”
― Samuel Beckett


“I only know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good.”
― Douglas Adams

“It is not until you change your identity to match your life blueprint that you will understand why everything in the past never worked.”
― Shannon L. Alder


“Trusting yourself means living out what you already know to be true.”
― Cheryl Strayed

“Purpose gives perspective to your pain and powers you through it. Without it, your pain can paralyze you.”
― Gregory Dickow


“One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.”
― Rollo May

“I will no longer wound myself with the thoughts and questions that have surrounded me like thorns: that is a penance You do not ask of me.”
― Thomas Merton


“When we see a mountain too hard to climb, God helps us climb it but in His own time.”
― Carolyn Cutler Hughes

“How shall I ever learn who I am when there is so much of me that belongs to someone else?”
― Madeline Claire Franklin


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