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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MINDFULNESS QUOTES

MINDFULNESS QUOTES

“Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.”
― Thich Nhat Hang

“If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.”
― Amit Ray


“Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.”
― Amit Ray

“If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it’s fruitless to stand there and yell at the person. It would be much better to turn your attention to the fact that there’s an arrow in your heart…”
― Pema Chödrön


“Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.”
― Marcus Aurelius

“Everything is created twice, first in the mind and then in reality.”
― Robin Sharma


“Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.”
― Marcus Aurelius

“The mind is just like a muscle – the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets and the more it can expand.”
― Idowu Koyenikan


“The attempt to escape from pain, is what creates more pain.”
― Gabor Maté

“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.”
― C.G. Jung

“One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.”
― Alan Wilson Watts

“I don’t need anyone else to distract me from myself anymore,
like I always thought I would.”
― Charlotte Eriksson

“Be happy in the moment, that’s enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.”
― Mother Teresa

“Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.”
― Louis L’Amour


“I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally.”
― Marilynne Robinson

“There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, everyone of them sufficient”
― Marilynne Robinson


“To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.”
― James Baldwin

“Until you realize how easy it is for your mind to be manipulated, you remain the puppet of someone else’s game.”
― Evita Ochel


“I have never seen battles quite as terrifyingly beautiful as the ones I fight when my mind splinters and races, to swallow me into my own madness, again.”
― Nicole Lyons

“Without giving up hope—that there’s somewhere better to be, that there’s someone better to be—we will never relax with where we are or who we are.”
― Pema Chödrön


“True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.”
― Henry James

“Let go of your mind and then be mindful.
Close your ears and listen!”
― Rumi

“The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness. Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.”
― Jon Kabat-Zinn

“Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.”
― Jon Kabat-Zinn

“Don’t believe everything you think. Thoughts are just that – thoughts.”
― Allan Lokos

“Don’t let a day go by without asking who you are…each time you let a new ingredient to enter your awareness.”
― Deepak Chopra

“When you open your mind, you open new doors to new possibilities for yourself and new opportunities to help others.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“Mindfulness isn’t difficult, we just need to remember to do it.”
― Sharon Salzberg

“Treat everyone you meet as if they were you.”
― Doug Dillon

“The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on earth.”
― Línjì Yìxuán

“Enjoy the peace of Nature and declutter your inner world.”
― Amit Ray

“Suffering usually relates to wanting things to be different from the way they are.”
― Allan Lokos

“Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.”
― Sharon Salzberg

“It’s good to have an end in mind but in the end what counts is how you travel.”
― Orna Ross

“Above all, we cannot afford not to live in the present. He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“We’re capable of much more than mediocrity, much more than merely getting by in this world.”
― Sharon Salzberg

“Mindful leadership keeps you cool and energetic in any situation, so that you can make the best possible decisions.”
― Amit Ray

“We too should make ourselves empty, that the great soul of the universe may fill us with its breath.”
― Lawrence Binyon

“Happiness is not constant; it is cyclical. Happiness is broad and resilient, and the happiest people still experience negative feelings.”
― Robert Gill Jr

“Meditation is a microcosm, a model, a mirror. The skills we practice when we sit are transferable to the rest of our lives.”
― Sharon Salzberg

“We are constantly evolving as we are interacting with the world. Mindfulness and growth mindset drives our evolution faster and on right tracks.”
― Amit Ray

“My experience is that many things are not as bad as I thought they would be.”
― Mary Doria Russell

“All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how. It is out of ignorance that any of us cause suffering, for ourselves or for others”
― Sharon Salzberg

“We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones.”
― Sharon Salzberg

“Stay present for the “now” of your life. It’s your “point of power.”
― Doug Dillon

“A bird cried jubilation. In that moment they lived long. All minor motions were stilled and only the great ones were perceived. Beneath them the earth turned, singing.”
― Sheri S. Tepper

“Until you are clear nothing will be. The moment you are clear everything will be.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“We must look upon what is to occur as having already occurred, and see nothing but the present in the future, for the future is but the present a little farther on.”
― Jules Verne

“A mind set in its ways is wasted. Don’t do it.”
― Eric Schmidt

“Remind yourself that your mental & emotional health are important.”
― Allan Lokos


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