It is the habit of faith, when she is praying, to use pleas. Mere prayer sayers, who do not pray at all,… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Perhaps the habit which distinguishes civilized people from others is that of discussion, exchange of opinion and ideas, the ability to differ… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Make sobriety a habit, and intemperance will be hateful; make prudence a habit, and reckless profligacy will be as contrary to the… — Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux Copy Share Image
I've been curious about certain things, but didn't let them get in the way of my life. I don't know how people… — Tobey Maguire Copy Share Image
Any relation to the land, the habit of tilling it, or mining it, or even hunting on it, generates the feeling of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our heads have a nasty habit of ruining what can make us happiest. And there are times in our lives when you… — A. Meredith Walters Copy Share Image
I'm still not a great reader, but my wife is and my daughters are, and I envy them. I think I got… — Mike Krzyzewski Copy Share Image
I don't have a BlackBerry or whatever you call it. And there is something to be said for being isolated and out… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
Most poverty and suffering - whether in a country, a family or a person - flows from disorganization. A stable social order… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
“Too many people hold on too tightly to strategies, thoughts, or activities that don’t work for them anymore. You want to avoid… — Tony Horton Copy Share Image
These various habits of thought, or habitual expressions of life, are all phases of the single life sequence of the individual; therefore… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
I think I am at the end of a certain phase of my life. What I'm on the lookout for now is… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
One of the most melancholy consequences of this habit of deferring to other nations, and to other systems, is the fact that… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
The present mode of life on earth is madness, which is nontheless lethal for being legal. Rational existence is possible, but it… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
I don't like this." "I know you don't, my little spaetzel. But I am too worn out to run from both the… — Katie MacAlister Copy Share Image
People in general know not what wickedness there is in this pretended word of God. Brought up in habits of superstition, they… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I don't have time to devote to putting outfits together before picking up the kids. I'm a creature of habit and in… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
Impatience is a bad habit of mine, although I'm working to improve it with lots of therapy. My head moves faster than… — Andi Oliver Copy Share Image
The single most important tool to being in balance is knowing that you and you alone are responsible for the imbalance between… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
“The trouble with ‘if only’ is that it doesn’t change anything. It keeps the person facing the wrong way – backward instead… — Arthur Gordon Copy Share Image
The only way we could remember would be by constant re-reading, for knowledge unused tends to drop out of mind. Knowledge used… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Owen meany who rarely wasted words and who had the conversation-stopping habit of dropping remarks like coins into a deep pool of… — John Irving Copy Share Image
There's more to being an environmentalist than occasionally signing an online petition and mailing your check to the Sierra Club. Really the… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
The Jewish culture - people that are Jewish have a certain cultural habit that they've formed and one of those habits is… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
When you are breaking old habits and learning new behaviors, you need to be kind to yourself. If you kick yourself whenever… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To anyone who has followed the practice of using profanity or vulgarity and would like to correct the habit, could I offer… — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
Visitors should conform as much as possible to the habits and customs of the house. They should be moderate in their demands… — Elisabeth Marbury Copy Share Image
We ask for what reason our Lord was unwilling to state the time of His coming (cf. Mk. 13:31-32). If we ask… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
We travel because we need to, because distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
In a word, acts of any kind produce habits or characters of the same kind. Hence we ought to make sure that… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
EDUCATION, n. The bringing up, as of a child; instruction; formation of manners. Education comprehends all that series of instruction and discipline… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
It is so very easy and so very pleasant, too, to read only books which lead to nothing, light and interesting books,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don’t ask writers about their work habits. I really don’t care. Joyce Carol Oates says somewhere that when writers ask each… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
I kind of dropped a lot of bad habits about three years ago and became kind of accidentally straight-edge. I don't have… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
“But once you realize that we are not just thinking things but creatures of habit, you’ll then realize that temptation isn’t just… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
I'm not prescribing non-doing as a universal response to our problems. Sometimes, something obviously needs to be done. And we retreat into… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
The teachers tried everything, even pleading, but Tomas was in the habit of addressing them only in Latin, a language he spoke… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
When we relate to our bodies as having soul, we attend to their beauty, their poetry and their expressiveness. Our very habit… — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
A habit of finding pleasure in thought rather than action is a safeguard against unwisdom and excessive love of power, a means… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
