Best Habitual Lines
179 Habitual quotes by 131 unique authors
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Life is the art of being well deceived, and to succeed, it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
— Oscar Wilde
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There is so little to remember of anyone - an anecdote, a conversation at a table. But every memory is turned over and over again,…
— Marilynne Robinson
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It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry…
— John Adams
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People, especially successful people, are habitual creatures. They're organized. This makes them productive - Gus Mitchell
— Vince Flynn
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I love you as the plant that never blooms but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers; thanks to your love a certain solid…
— Pablo Neruda
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But the economic meltdown should have undone, once and for all, the idea of poverty as a personal shortcoming or dysfunctional state of mind. The…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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The strain of constant adaptation to so many fearful events and discoveries is already too much to bear with sanity; one has to keep pretending…
— Janet Frame
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…the majority of men do not think in order to know the truth, but in order to assure themselves that the life which they lead,…
— Leo Tolstoy
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They say: sufferings are misfortunes," said Pierre. 'But if at once this minute, I was asked, would I remain what I was before I was…
— Leo Tolstoy
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But indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable; and we all know the difficulty of…
— George Eliot
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True education is a kind of never ending story — a matter of continual beginnings, of habitual fresh starts, of persistent newness.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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I think I am beginning to understand why grief feels like suspense. It comes from the frustration of so many impulses that had become habitual.…
— C.S. Lewis
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If cynicism and love lie at opposite ends of a spectrum, do we not sometimes fall in love in order to escape the debilitating cynicism…
— Alain de Botton
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The mind becomes accustomed to things by the habitual sight of them, and neither wonders nor inquires about the reasons for things it sees all…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I have a habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am now leading a posthumous existence.
— John Keats
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You are wrong if you think Joy emanates only or principally from human relationships. God has placed it all around us. It is in everything…
— Jon Krakauer
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Ordinarily we are swept away by habitual momentum. We don't interrupt our patterns even slightly. With practice, however, we learn to stay with a broken…
— Pema Chodron
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Innocence was gone from all our acts. Our habitual state of rebellion became a serious political crime.
— Anais Nin
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Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.
— Marcus Aurelius
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It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense the new plans and aims…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Courage, of all national qualities, is the most precarious; because it is exerted only at intervals, and by a few in every nation; whereas industry,…
— David Hume
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To have the management of the mind is a great art, and it may be attained in a considerable degree by experience and habitual exercise...Let…
— Samuel Johnson
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To have the management of the mind is a great art, and it may be attained in a considerable degree by experience and habitual exercise.
— Samuel Johnson
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There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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I suppose the most radical part of my teaching at present is that love is not a feeling. Everybody suffers from love, or the fear…
— Barry Long
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