“Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle. In many parts of the world society is given to instant gratification and consumerism while remaining indifferent to the damage which these attitudes cause. Simplicity, moderation and discipline, as well as a spirit of sacrifice, must become part of everyday life, lest all suffer the negative consequences of the careless habits of a few.” WorldWellsLooksProblemSpiritSufferingGivenCausesAttitudeSacrificeModernSeriousHabitDisciplineSolutionsConsequenceNegativeEverydaySimplicityLifestyleInstantDamageIndifferentConsumerismEveryday LifeModerationGratificationCarelessEcologicalOverconsumptionModern SocietyInstant GratificationNegative ConsequencesSerious Look Author:Pope John Paul II
“All acts suppose certain dispositions, and habits of mind and heart, which may be in themselves states of enjoyment or of wretchedness, and which must be fruitful in other consequences besides those particular acts.” MindHeartMayStatesCertainParticularHabitConsequenceEnjoymentDispositionHeart And MindWretchednessHabits Of Mind Book:The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill Source: The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill
“One of the most melancholy consequences of this habit of deferring to other nations, and to other systems, is the fact that it causes us to undervalue the high blessings we so peculiarly enjoy; to render us ungrateful towards God, and to make us unjust to our fellow men, by throwing obstacles in their progress towards liberty.” MenFactsNationsCausesEnjoyLibertyProgressHabitBlessingConsequenceFellowsObstaclesMelancholyThrowingUnjustFellow ManUngrateful Author:James F. Cooper
“A tendency to resume the same mode of action at stated times is peculiarly the characteristic of the nervous system; and on this account regularity is of great consequence in exercising the moral and intellectual power. All nervous diseases have a marked tendency to observe regular periods; and the natural inclination to sleep at the approach of night is another instance of the same fact.” FactsActionNightNaturalSleepMoralHabitPeriodsExerciseDiseaseApproachIntellectualConsequenceAccountsTendenciesInstanceNervousCharacteristicsInclinationNervous SystemResumesRegularity Author:George Combe
“If you drink too much, you go out and you harm to somebody, you have to suffer the consequences. Same way with health matters. You don't have the right to demand that someone else take care of you because of your habits.” IfsWayMatterCareSufferingToo MuchHabitDrinkDemandConsequenceTake CareHarm Author:Ron Paul
“Cultivate the habit of thinking ahead, and of anticipating the necessary and immediate consequences of all your actions.... Likewise in your pleasures, ask yourself what such and such an amusement leads to, as it is essential to have an objective in everything you do. Any pastime that contributes nothing to bodily strength or to mental alertness is a totally ridiculous, not to say, idiotic, pleasure.” ThinkingActionMotivationAsksPleasureHabitEssentialsConsequenceRidiculousObjectivesAmusementPastimeIdioticAlertnessThinking AheadAlertness Is Author:Lord Chesterfield
“In an economy, an act, a habit, an institution, or a law, gives birth not only to an effect, but to a series of effects. Of these effects, the first only is immediate; it manifests itself simultaneously with its cause - it is seen. The others unfold in succession - they are not seen. Now this difference is enormous, for it is often true that when the immediate consequence is favorable, the ultimate consequences are fatal, and the converse.” GivingFirstsLawCausesDifferencesEconomyEffectsBirthHabitConsequenceUltimateInstitutionsSeriesInvestingEnormousSuccessionConverses Author:Frederic Bastiat
“The consequences of these institutions (The towns or districts, the congregations, the schools,and the militia.) have been, that the inhabitants, having acquired from their infancy the habit of discussing, of deliberating, and of judging of public affairs, it was in these assemblies of towns or districts that the sentiments of the people were formed in the first place, and their resolutions were taken from the beginning to the end of the disputes and the war with Great Britain.” PeopleFirstsHas BeensWarEndsSchoolEducationTakenJudgingHabitConsequenceTownsInstitutionsAffairBritainResolutionSentimentsDisputesAssemblyDiscussingInfancyCongregationGreat BritainMilitiaPublic Affairs Author:John Adams
“Resistance is a result of our mind being attached to having things a certain way rather than the way they actually are. It is a mental habit of the ego that we need to become aware of in order to see the consequences. Only then can we see into our thought system and realize that nothing could be more of a waste of time than to resist and complain about what already is.” WayNeedsMindCertainOrderRealizingResultsHabitEgoWasteConsequenceComplainingResistanceWasting TimeOur Thoughts Author:Lee L Jampolsky
“Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things.” ThinkingLifeInspirationalLittlesSometimesMotivationalChoicesPositive ThinkingHabitDisciplineConsequenceAddictionLittle ThingsTemptedEnviromentalInspirational Wisdom Author:Bruce Barton
“What is stronger in us — passion or habit? Or are all the violent impulses, all the whirl of our desires and turbulent passions, only the consequence of our ardent age, and is it only through youth that they seem deep and shattering?” SeemsAgeDesirePassionYouthHabitConsequenceStrongerViolentImpulseArdentShattering Book:The Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogol Source: The Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogol