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“Matter is merely mind deadened by the development of habit to the point where the breaking up of these habits is very difficult.”

Mind Matter Difficult Development Habit

Book:The Presence of the Past: Morphic Resonance and the Habits of Nature

Source: The Presence of the Past: Morphic Resonance and the Habits of Nature

“I am afraid that you have been listening to the conversation of someone older than yourself. That is always a dangerous thing to do, and if you allow it to degenerate into a habit, you will find it absolutely fatal to any intellectual development.”

Ifs Has Beens Dangerous Listening Development Habit Conversation Intellectual Things To Do Dangerous Things Degenerates Intellectual Development

Book:Oscar Wilde - The Major Works

Source: Oscar Wilde - The Major Works

“Our conceptions of morality, as all our other ideas, pass through a course of development; the difficulty comes in adjusting our conduct, which has become hardened into customs and habits, to these changing moral conceptions. When this adjustment is not made, we suffer from the strain and indecision of believing one hypothesis and acting upon another.”

Believe Made Ideas Suffering Courses Acting Moral Development Habit Morality Difficulty Customs Conception Strain Hypothesis Adjustment Indecision Hardened Adjusting

Book:Democracy and Social Ethics

Source: Democracy and Social Ethics

“It is believed that physiognomy is only a simple development of the features already marked out by nature. It is my opinion, however, that in addition to this development, the features come insensibly to be formed and assume their shape from the frequent and habitual expression of certain affections of the soul. These affections are marked on the countenance; nothing is more certain than this; and when they turn into habits, they must leave on it durable impressions.”

Soul Certain Turns Simple Opinion Expression Development Habit Shapes Assuming Affection Impression Features Habitual Countenance Physiognomy

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Physical education for the body to be effective must be rigorous and detailed, far sighted and methodological. This will be translated into habits. These habits should be controlled and disciplined, while remaining flexible enough to adapt themselves to circumstances and to the needs of growth and development of the being.”

Needs Should Enough Body Growth Development Habit Circumstances Controlled Flexible Physical Education

Author:Sri Aurobindo

“A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.”

Men Children Long Has Beens Given Chance Education Teaching Middle Ignorance Development Habit Adults Contrary Ignorant Conventions Continuing Arrested Middle Aged Cocoons

Book:Complete Essays: 1920-1925

Source: Complete Essays: 1920-1925

“Changing eating habits in the North is an important link in the chain of events needed to create environmentally sustainable development that meets people's needs. The Beyond Beef campaign is an important step in that direction.”

People Needs Important Steps Events Development Needed Habit Eating Campaigns Chains Links Beef Sustainable Development Eating Habits Chain Of Events

Author:Walden Bello

“I had hundreds of books under my skin already. Not selected reading, all of it. Some of it could be called trashy. I had been through Nick Carter, Horatio Alger, Bertha M. Clay and the whole slew of dime novelists in addition to some really constructive reading. I do not regret the trash. It has harmed me in no way. It was a help, because acquiring the reading habit early is the important thing. Taste and natural development will take care of the rest later on.”

“Children are living beings - more living than grown-up people who have built shells of habit around themselves. Therefore it is absolutely necessary for their mental health and development that they should not have mere schools for their lessons, but a world whose guiding spirit is personal love.”

People World Should Children School Spirit Development Habit Lessons Built Mental Health Mere Shells Personal Love

Book:The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany

Source: The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany