Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
If you are in the habit of creating suffering for yourself, then you are probably creating suffering for others too — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Arcesilaus had a peculiar habit while conversing of using the expression, "My opinion is," and "So and so will not agree to… — Diogenes Laertius Copy Share Image
Every habit and faculty is preserved and increased by correspondent actions, as the habit of walking, by walking; of running, by running. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The habit of begging, that plague of tourist resorts, is an incessant nuisance on the Alhambra hill. — Katharine Lee Bates Copy Share Image
It takes 3 weeks to break a habit, 6 weeks to develop a new habit and 36 weeks to hardwire this new habit. — Patrick Holford Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say I've changed my mind. I changed some of my natural habits, some of my natural character. — Kurt Masur Copy Share Image
But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Anytime you’re gonna grow, you’re gonna lose something. You’re losing what you’re hanging onto to keep safe. You’re losing habits that you’re… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
This habit of free speaking at ladies' lunches has impaired society; it has doubtless led to many of the tragedies of divorce… — M. E. W. Sherwood Copy Share Image
But who are we, really? Just a bundle of good genes and bad genes mixed with good habits and bad habits. And… — Neil Strauss Copy Share Image
Now the way of life that I preach is a habit to be acquired gradually by long and steady repetition. It is… — William Osler Copy Share Image
Remember, it's not so much about how much you do for your loved ones as it is about the love you put… — Suman Rai Copy Share Image
And habits are hell's own substitute for good intentions. Habits are the ruin of ambition, of initiative , of imagination. They're the… — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
To tear ourselves away from the everyday, from habit, from mental laziness which hides from us the strangeness of reality, we must… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
Once people learned how to believe in something, that skill started spilling over to other parts of their lives, until they started… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
I was often humiliated to see men disputing for a piece of bread, just as animals might have done. My feelings on… — Francois Arago Copy Share Image
When a man of normal habits is ill, everyone hastens to assure him that he is going to recover. When a vegetarian… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The habit some writers indulge in of perpetual quotation is one it behooves lovers of good literature to protest against, for it… — Ethel Smyth Copy Share Image
Do each day all that can be done that day. You don't need to overwork or to rush blindly into your work… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
You may dazzle the mind with a thousand brilliant discoveries of natural science; you may open new worlds of knowledge which were… — Rose Philippine Duchesne Copy Share Image
“But habits emerge without our permission. Studies indicate that families usually don’t intend to eat fast food on a regular basis. What… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would… — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image