Every action is self-perpetuating, every thought is self-perpetuating. Once you cooperate with it, you are giving energy to it. Sooner or later… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The essence of humor is that it should be unexpected, that it should embody an element of surprise, that it should startle… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
What we do and what we experience has a direct correlation with our habitual states of consciousness and mental states. The more… — Roy Davis 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
It's a matter of ABC: When we encounter ADVERSITY, we react by thinking about it. Our thoughts rapidly congeal into BELIEFS. These… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
I try to remember the things that keep me peaceful, happy, and compassionate. I constantly write notes on my phone about little… — Richard Brancatisano Copy Share Image
If I am correct, the use of a product based on modelessness and monoty would soon become so habitual as to be… — Jef Raskin Copy Share Image
It is of great importance to set a resolution, not to be shaken, never to tell an untruth. There is no vice… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“You act in certain ways because you have certain thoughts that over your lifetime have become habitual. Habitual patterns of thought and… — Martha Davis Copy Share Image
I cannot favour laws such as that of Idaho, which allows sterilization of 'mental defectives, epileptics, habitual criminals, moral degenerates, and sex… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Self-love is, in almost all men, such an over-weight that they are incredulous of a man's habitual preference of the general good… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Basically, morphic fields are fields of habit, and they've been set up through habits of thought, through habits of activity, and through… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
Confession has been my habitual homecoming since I was a child. It is a consolation and a joy, and such joy, our… — Donald Wuerl Copy Share Image
Whatever you habitually think yourself to be, that you are. You must form, now, a greater and better habit; you must form… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
You may have living and habitual conversation in heaven, under the aspect of the most simple, ordinary life. Remember that holiness does… — Henry Edward Manning Copy Share Image
“But it is doubtless true, and evident from [the] Scriptures, that the essence of all true religion lies in holy love; and… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Ninety-nine hundredths or, possibly, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousandths of our activity is purely automatic and habitual, from our rising in the… — William James Copy Share Image
There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. It is New Orleans,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Everything is grounded in mystery. Everything is swimming, and the stable does not exist. Life is a series of guesses, and there… — Benjamin De Casseres Copy Share Image
It is only your habitual late riser who takes in the full flavor of Nature at those rare intervals when he gets… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It's easy to get into habitual ways of drawing things and I'm as much guilty of this as anyone else - after… — Bryan Talbot Copy Share Image
[The disarming of citizens] has a double effect, it palsies the hand and brutalizes the mind: a habitual disuse of physical forces… — Joel Barlow Copy Share Image
We come to meditation to learn how not to act out the habitual tendencies we generally live by - those actions that… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
The last two - distractions and fears - are the dangerous ones. They're the habitual demons that invade the launch of any… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I confess, right at the start, to the doubts - and sometimes outright dreads - that go with me as I climb… — Gail Godwin Copy Share Image
Evidence of defendants' lavish lifestyles is often used to provide a motive for fraud. Jurors sometimes wonder why an executive making tens… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
The nation which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Holiness is nothing else but the habitual and predominant devotion and dedication of soul, and body, and life, and all that we… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
Courage, of all national qualities, is the most precarious; because it is exerted only at intervals, and by a few in every… — David Hume Copy Share Image
You should know that what wakes me up at night, what gets me running fast in the morning, and, frankly, what prompts… — Marcus Buckingham Copy Share Image
Mindfulness helps us freeze the frame so that we can become aware of our sensations and experiences as they are, without the… — Henepola Gunaratana Copy Share Image
I drove away from my mind everything capable of spoiling the sense of the presence of God… I just make it my… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
Complete nudity in itself is not erotic. It becomes so only when preceeded by or contrasted to a state of dress. In… — Lucy Irvine Copy Share Image
Yeah, I tend to tinker with things that I love. It's habitual. — Oneohtrix Point Never Copy Share Image
Fully 95 percent of our behavior, feeling, and response is habitual. — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image