Habits Quote by Merri Lisa Johnson

“I had allowed to settle into the core of who I am. I talked about myself in ways I would never let another person.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

“i wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. i wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.…

— Leo Tolstoy

“It wasn’t what I’d characterize as a happy part of my life, living as I was, a balled-up mass of unfulfilled desires. I was…

— Haruki Murakami

“I wanted, then, to become what I most admired, what now seemed most real to me. I wanted to be that exalted, complicated presence…

— Megan Mayhew Bergman

“I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.…

— Jon Krakauer

“I had the patience to sit like a fool with these people, listening to them for four hours on end, and never daring say…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Only when I dropped the notion that I was the creator of my own peace or oneness, or that I was powerful enough to…

— Zenju Earthlyn Manuel

“To feel anything strongly was to create an abyss between oneself and others who feel strongly perhaps but differently.”

— Virginia Woolf

“I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. I felt…

— Leo Tolstoy

“But I had absolutely lost all sense of personal dignity, and could not tear myself away from the spectacle of my own misery.”

— Ivan Turgenev

“In that moment, I felt differently to myself yet the essence of who I really was. Like a perfect state of balance.”

— Tim Relf

“Like most others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser. I was never idle long enough to…

— Hunter S. Thompson