..Such practices and beliefs, which interfere with happiness, are neither inevitable nor necessary; they evolved by chance, as a result of random… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
You can alter your life by doing a little more each day. Pretty soon, you'll develop a new habit of doing rather… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
It's just as hard for man to break the habit of thinking of himself as central to the species as it was… — Elaine Morgan Copy Share Image
When I hear another express an opinion which is not mine, I say to myself, he has a right to his opinion,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
You just don't make decisions about what you're going to be like when you are old. I know that I am making… — John Powell Copy Share Image
It’s all too easy to turn the fight of faith into sanctification-by-checklist. Take care of a few bad habits, develop a couple… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
“As his mind becomes purer and his emotions come under control, his thoughts become clearer and his instincts truer. As he learns… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
“Every negative complex of emotion conceals a conflict, a problem or dilemma made up of contradictory or opposing motives or desires. Self-observation… — Adi Da Samraj Copy Share Image
No occupation is more worthy of an intelligent and enlightened mind, than the study of Nature and natural objects; and whether we… — Joseph Paxton Copy Share Image
I define self-control, in the beginning of life, as the choice of achieving what I really want by doing things I really… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“If I ever mess things up again, whether it’s a misunderstanding, or shit luck, or I just do what I was created… — Nicole Williams Copy Share Image
We're [writers] all afraid of writing badly, and there are psychological reasons, like the bad interior of ourselves is somehow being revealed,… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
If I want to free myself from endless cycles of struggling with temptation, I need to keep rediscovering that the pain of… — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was pricking the… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
“The coldest most rational scientific madness is also the most intolerable. But when a man has acquired a certain ability to subsist,… — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A love of flowers would beget early rising, industry, habits of close observation, and of reading. It would incline the mind to… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I am acquainted with a wife and mother who is chained securely at the present time to a life-style of murmuring and… — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything. Unless in the first waking moment of the day you learn to… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“Habits, he noted, are what allow us to “do a thing with difficulty the first time, but soon do it more and… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
Then might ye see Cowls, hoods, and habits with their wearers tost And flutter'd into rags; then reliques, beads, Indulgences, dispenses, pardons,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
For one day, or for one day for a week, refrain from something you habitually do to run away, to escape. Pick… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
If we observe genuinely happy people, we shall find that they do not just sit around being contented. They make things happen.… — Sonja Lyubomirsky Copy Share Image
“As a rule it is with our being reduced to a minimum that we live; most of our faculties lie dormant because… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“The word hygge has been sifted to the surface in recent years but the concept is not new. It is a practice… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
I sincerely believe that energy grows from itself and the more energy you expand the more you create within yourself. I also… — Diana Vreeland Copy Share Image
Before a Cat will condescend To treat you as a trusted friend, Some little token of esteem Is needed, like a dish… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is never too late to turn on the light. Your ability to break an unhealthy habit or turn off an old… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
I absolutely think that happiness is a choice. One of the most potent forces in human psychology is the power of habit.… — Nicholas Evans Copy Share Image
The number of humble-bees in any district depends in a great degree on the number of field-mice, which destroy their combs and… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I think one of the things that I took from Mel [Bochner] specifically was his ability to look at oneself and one's… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
All day long the thoughts that occupy your mind, your Secret Place, as Jesus calls it, are moulding your destiny for good… — Emmet Fox Copy Share Image
I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I think I was also afraid of the novel. I write line by line, proceeding at snail's pace, rewriting as I go… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
“He started Number the Stars before we were even out of the store. "The only problem is, I already know how it… — Rebecca Makkai Copy Share Image
As long as we are focusing on the breath we do not feed our mental, emotional, and physical patterns. By returning to… — Martine Batchelor Copy Share Image
Speaking the Lord’s name with reverence must simply be part of our lives as members of the Church... we do not use… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
I recognize this in my writing process. A consistent writing structure opens the door to amazing insights. I recognize the truth of… — Mary Anne Radmacher Copy Share Image
Highly competitive athletes like Ginny Gilder have a gift for tolerating pain and ignoring adversity. They accept these things as the price… — Tori Murden Copy Share Image
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