For that which has become habitual, becomes as it were…

Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should…

— Bertolt Brecht

In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.

— Sallust

Of cases where a man is truthful both in speech and conduct when no considerations of honesty come in, from an habitual sincerity of…

— Aristotle

To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.

— Aristotle

“Not in depraved things, but in those well oriented according to nature, are we to consider what is natural.”

— Aristotle

The knowledge of the soul admittedly contributes greatly to the advance of truth in general, and, above all, to our understanding of Nature, for…

— Aristotle

All men by nature desire to know.

— Aristotle

O Heavenly Father, convert my religion from a name to a principle! Bring all my thoughts and movements into an habitual reference to Thee!

— Thomas Chalmers

The mind has powers that allow us to go beyond our normal or habitual way of being, and beyond what we think is possible.

— Joseph Jaworski

“But it is doubtless true, and evident from [the] Scriptures, that the essence of all true religion lies in holy love; and that in…

— Jonathan Edwards

I am sure that the sad days and happenings were rare, and that I lived the joyous and careless life of other children; but…

— Pierre Loti

We are what we think we are. The habitual inclination of our thoughts determines our talents and abilities, and our personality. So whatever you…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

People aren't religious because it's easy not to be. Like anything, it's habitual, and once it's a habit it's no longer hard.

— Matisyahu

Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins.

— Leo Tolstoy

It's a matter of ABC: When we encounter ADVERSITY, we react by thinking about it. Our thoughts rapidly congeal into BELIEFS. These beliefs may…

— Martin Seligman