Habits Quote by Eckhart Tolle

“Naming and labeling are habitual, but that habit can be broken. Start practicing “not naming” with small things. If you miss the plane, drop…

— Eckhart Tolle

“MY PAIN IS NAMED”

— Lisa Gardner

“The passion for naming things is an odd human trait. It is strange that men always feel so much more at ease when they…

— George Gaylord Simpson

“Like Corbin, Jung understands the importance of naming. He knows that unnamed experiences tend to remain unconscious. Correctly naming an experience is tremendously important.…

— Sandra Dennis

To give a name to a thing is as gratifying as giving a name to an island, but it is also dangerous: the danger…

— Primo Levi

It bothers me when I can't, for example, remember a name. I don't know if it's pre-senility or whether there are too many names…

— Phillip Lopate

Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any…

— Theodore Bikel

When we name things correctly, we comprehend them correctly, without adding information or judgements that aren't there. Does someone bathe quickly? Don't say be…

— Epictetus

A stick or a stone only stings for a minute. A name seems to hurt forever.

— Barbara Park

My parents said sticks and stones will break your bones but names will never hurt you. But I always felt a sense of exhilaration…

— Michael Franti

To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it will pass.

— Amiri Baraka

I think it is very useful to know ourselves, but when we start naming and labeling, that is dangerous, that gets problematic. It negates…

— Ani DiFranco