“Let us say your wife, husband, boyfriend, girlfriend makes you happy. If they leave, you're bound to be unhappy. You are the slave of the thing that makes you happy. You are a junkie and human relationships can be expensive habits.” IfsHumansHappinessWifeBuddhismHabitHusbandSlaveBoundsUnhappyGirlfriendExpensiveMake You HappyHuman RelationsHuman RelationshipsJunkie Author:Frederick Lenz
“Painting bores me like everything else. Unfortunately, painting is one of the activities - it is bound up in the series of activities - that seems to change almost nothing in life, the same habits are always recurring.” SeemsPaintingHabitActivitySeriesBoundsBoredomBoresRecurring Author:Rene Magritte
“Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.” HabitBoundsConservativeEnormousAgentsWheelsUprisingOrdinances Author:William James
“If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.” IfsArtStillsHabitSlaveBoundsIllVicesFolly Author:John Dryden
“Once you realize that the world is your own projection, you are free of it. You need not free yourself of a world that does not exist, except in your own imagination! However is the picture, beautiful or ugly, you are painting it and you are not bound by it. Realize that there is nobody to force it on you, that it is due to the habit of taking the imaginary to be real. See the imaginary as imaginary and be free of fear.” WorldNeedsDoeRealBeautifulForceFearRealizingImaginationPaintingHabitBoundsUglyDuesBeing RealImaginaryProjectionFree Yourself Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
“The neccessity for making a living keeps our minds so bound down to the details of professional success that we sometimes forget there is anything except professional success to live for. The necessity of conforming our habits and standards to the habits and standards of those about us, in order that we may do efficient work, makes us forget that there is a point where conformity ceases to be a virtue.” InspirationalMindMaySometimesOrderForgetVirtueHabitStandardsBoundsDetailsCeaseConformityEfficientConformMaking A LivingProfessional SuccessEfficient Work Author:Arthur Twining Hadley
“It is probably impossible to think without words, but if we permit ourselves to think with the wrong words, we shall soon be entertaining erroneous thoughts; for words, which are given us for the expression of thought, have a habit of going beyond their proper bounds and determining the content of thought.” IfsThinkingGivenImpossibleExpressionHabitBoundsPermitEntertainingWrong Words Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer
“Teaching is a very habit-bound endeavor. We're unsettled by the unfamiliar. We're creatures of habit too.” TeachingHabitCreaturesBoundsEndeavorUnfamiliarCreatures Of Habit Author:Carol Ann Tomlinson
“Character isn't what we think it is or, rather, what we want it to be. It isn't a stable, easily identifiable set of closely related traits, and it only seems that way because of a glitch in the way our brains are organized. Character is more like a bundle of habits and tendencies and interests, loosely bound together and dependent, at certain times, on circumstance and context.” ThinkingWayWantCharacterSeemsTogetherCertainInterestBrainHabitCircumstancesBoundsTendenciesRelatedOrganizedDependentTraitsStableBundlesGlitches Author:Malcolm Gladwell