Habits Quote by Thoreau Download Open image ““I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things.”” — Thoreau ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Habits Mind Psychology Trivial things Triviality
I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things, so that all our thoughts shall be… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“For the most glutinously indefinite minds enclose some hard grains of habit...” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“The mind is discontent with everything that is. If you become aware of that, you will start working in a different direction. Whatsoever is,… — Osho Copy Share Image
“We cannot long keep from the face that which habitually lives in our minds.” — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“My mind is evidently so constituted that I am subconsciously forced into the path of duty without recourse to tiresome mental processes.” — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Choose one behavior that you do on a daily basis and begin to take a moment to be mindful along with it.” — Shea Matthew Fisher Copy Share Image
“refusing to think about a thing only brings it more strongly to mind.” — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“Without realizing it, I had slowly built a habit: a steady resistance to and dread of boredom.” — Tish Harrison Warren Copy Share Image
“The mind is a storehouse with great capacity, but is often filled with dubious knowledge and meaningless trivialities. In truth, much of this -… — Stevenson Willis Copy Share Image
“Most of the time that I thought I was being present and mindful, I was just operating on habitual patterns. ” — Derek Doepker Copy Share Image
“I stand in awe of my body, this matter to which I am bound has become so strange to me. I fear not spirits, ghosts, of which I am one- but I fear bodies, I tremble to meet them. What is this Titan that has possession of me? Talk of mysteries! Think of our life in nature,- daily to be… — Thoreau Copy Share
“In the last stage of civilization, Poetry, Religion, and Philosophy will be one.” — Thoreau Copy Share Image
“What I have observed of the pond is no less true in ethics. ... Such a rule ... draws lines through the length and… — Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Simplify, simplify. Instead of three meals a day, if it be necessary eat but one; instead of a hundred dishes, five; and reduce other… — Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Malchut is also the Alma D’Itgalya, “the Revealed World.” Here our latent potential is actualized through behavior and expression.” — Laibl Wolf Copy Share Image
I would drink gallons of coffee a day. Even now, off caffeine, I talk faster than anyone you've ever met. I finally recognized that… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom - whether black or white… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I doubt that we Americans can come to terms with our money neuroses without understanding the more florid pathology of the very rich for… — Philip Slater Copy Share Image
By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
As you begin changing your thinking, start immediately to change your behaviour. Begin to act the part of the person you would like to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When it comes to smarts, adolescents like Jesse have plenty. What they lack, however, are some of the brain-based skills that we all need to plan and direct activities, to regulate behavior, and to make efficient and effective use of these smarts. The trouble does not show up in math or reading; rather, it shows up when they need to… — Richard Guare Copy Share
“I settled into a contented routine of working, spending my free time with Veronica and, back in my student room, wanking explosively to fantasies of her splayed beneath me or arched above me. Daily intimacy made me proud of knowing about make-up, clothes policy, the feminine razor, and the mystery and consequences of a woman’s periods. I found myself envying… — Julian Barnes Copy Share
We need to discover all over again that worship is natural to the Christian, as it was to the godly Israelites who wrote the… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image