...the habitual dualist's solution to the problem of dualism: to solve the dilemma by chopping off one of the horns. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
When you refrain from habitual thoughts and behavior, the uncomfortable feelings will still be there. They don’t magically disappear. Over the years,… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
You perceive now, my friends, what your general or abstract duty is as teachers. Although you have to generate in your pupils… — William James Copy Share Image
Our habitual experience is a complex of failure and success in the enterprise of interpretation. If we desire a record of uninterpreted… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
It is of unspeakable advantage to possess our minds with an habitual good intention, and to aim all our thoughts, words, and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Chomsky proceeds on the almost unthinkably subversive assumption that the United States should be judged by the same standards that it preaches… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The pro-psychedelic plant position is clearly an antidrugs position. Drug dependencies are the result of habitual, unexamined, and obsessive behavior; these are… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural. — Sallust Copy Share Image
All birds during the pairing season become more or less sentimental, and murmur soft nothings in a tone very unlike the grinding-organ… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural.… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
Habitual texters may not only cheat their existing relationships, they can also limit their ability to form future ones since they don't… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
Our volitional habits depend, then, first, on what the stock of ideas is which we have; and, second, on the habitual coupling… — William James Copy Share Image
It cannot but be injurious to the human mind never to be called into effort: the habit of receiving pleasure without any… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Above all, be at ease, be as natural and spacious as possible. Slip quietly out of the noose of your habitual anxious… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Rather than exist each day in some dull, boring habitual manner, move into action on a big idea. Everyone is on the… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
When we consider reality itself we quickly become aware of its infinite complexity, and we realize that our habitual perception of it… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
When you’re living by default, you’re automatically reacting to life in habitual ways, many of which may be limiting you and your… — Lauren Mackler Copy Share Image
The way of cowardice is to embed ourselves in a cocoon, in which we perpetuate our habitual patterns. When we are constantly… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
It is distraction, not meditation, that becomes habitual; interruption, not continuity; spasmodic, not constant toil. — Tillie Olsen Copy Share Image
Product of a myriad various minds and contending tongues, compact of obscure and minute association, a language has its own abundant and… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. — Eustace Budgell Copy Share Image
No sin, no matter how momentarily pleasurable, comforting, or habitual, is worth missing what God has for us. — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
I am more than just a serious basketball fan. I am a life-long addict. I was addicted from birth, in fact, because… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image