It is from the middle class that writers spring, because, it is in the middle class only that the practice of writing… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I do not know what the cat can have eaten. Usually I know exactly what the cat has eaten. Not only have… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
There is nothing more effectual in showing us the weakness of any habitual fallacy or assumption than to hear it sympathetically through… — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
I've come up with another formulation about style: that it's essentially a manifestation of a certain habitual set of limitations. It's what… — James Tenney Copy Share Image
When water gets caught in habitual whirlpools, dig a way out through the bottom of the ocean. — Rumi Copy Share Image
The scariest thought in the world is that someday I'll wake up and realize I've been sleepwalking through my life: underappreciating the… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I have quitted all forms of devotion and set prayers but those to which my state obliges me. And I make it… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
Even happiness itself may become habitual. There is a habit of looking at the bright side of things, and also of looking… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
This is the path of prayer-contemplative prayer, that is, as distinct from simple prayers of supplication and thanksgiving-which is a specific discipline… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's very dangerous to mix up the words natural and habitual. We have been trained to be quite habitual at communicating in… — Mahatma Gandhi 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
The important thing about travel in foreign lands is that it breaks the speech habits and makes you blab less, and breaks… — Paul Goodman 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
Mere chance ... alone would never account for so habitual and large an amount of difference as that between varieties of the… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The most refined abstractions of logic conduct to a view of life, which, though startling to the apprehension, is, in fact, that… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
A revolution is sometimes necessary, but if revolutions become habitual the country in which they take place is going down-hill — Theodore Roosevelt 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
There is no such thing as character other than the habitual action, as Mr. Aristotle told us two thousand years ago. — David Mamet Copy Share Image
If a man's innate self-respect will not save him from habitual, disgusting intoxication, all the female influences in the universe would not… — Augusta Jane Evans Copy Share Image
Magic is a sudden opening of the mind to the wonder of existence. It is a sense that there is much more… — John Welwood Copy Share Image
The political and social processes by which the Western European societies were put in order are not very apparent, have been forgotten,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
No change occurs if we just let our habitual tendencies and automatic patterns of thought perpetuate and even reinforce themselves, thought after… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
The law of attraction will certainly and unerringly bring to you the conditions, environment and experiences in life, corresponding with your habitual,… — Charles F. Haanel Copy Share Image
Mental activity in the daytime creates a latent form of habitual thought which again transforms itself at night into various delusory visions… — Milarepa Copy Share Image
