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“Something dies in us every time we change. To make space for the true, familiar well-worn habits must give way.”

Way Giving Wells Time Dies Change Space Habit Familiar Worn

Author:Arthur Zajonc

“One of the most popular narcotics to ease the pain of economy is cherishing the belief that better days are ahead. This is both efficacious and commendable, but it sometimes turns out to be a habit-forming drug. ... Things to which you look forward too long are almost invariably disappointing when you get them, and you might die first anyway.”

Firsts Looks Long Sometimes Might Pain Dies Turns Belief Economy Habit Drug Expectations Ease Cherish Disappointing Narcotics Better Days Commendable

Author:Marjorie Hillis

“Society in general maintains such a vested interested in its cozy habits and solidified belief systems that it had rather die - or kill - than entertain change. Consider how threatened religious fundamentalists of all faiths remain to this day by science in general and Darwin in particular.”

Dies Belief Religious Particular Habit This Day Threatened Belief Systems Cozy

Author:Tom Robbins

“In the Buddhist texts, some of them say, when you die, basically that wild horse gets cut loose, and the mind is incredibly powerful and expansive, omniscient and can go anywhere and see anything, but - and this is the catch - it's colored by the habits of thought we made in life.”

Mind Made Dies Powerful Cutting Habit Horse Buddhist Omniscient Wild Horses

Author:George Saunders

“Bad shopping habits die hard.”

Hard Dies Habit Shopping

Author:Tori Spelling

“There are 10,000 books in my library, and it will keep growing until I die. This has exasperated my daughters, amused my friends and baffled my accountant. If I had not picked up this habit in the library long ago, I would have more money in the bank today; I would not be richer.”

Ifs Long Book Today Dies Growing Habit Daughter My Friends Library My Daughter More Money Long Ago Amused Accountants Baffled

Author:Pete Hamill

“YOU FEAR TO DIE? "It's not that I don't want... I mean, I've always...it's just that life is a habit that's hard to break.”

Want Life Mean Hard Life Is Dies Break Habit

Book:Reaper Man: A Novel of Discworld

Source: Reaper Man: A Novel of Discworld

“It is worth repeating at this point the theories that Ford had come up with, on his first encounter with human beings, to account for their peculiar habit of continually stating and restating the very very obvious, as in "It's a nice day," or "You're very tall," or "So this is it, we're going to die." His first theory was that if human beings didn't keep exercising their lips, their mouths probably shriveled up. After a few months of observation he had come up with a second theory, which was this--"If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, their brains start working.”

Ifs Firsts Humans Dies Human Beings Brain Nice Theory Months Habit Exercise Mouths Accounts Lips Come Up Obvious Observation Encounters Tall Peculiar Nice Day

Book:The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Source: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“As teenagers, Marcus had been the muscle and Jake the brains. Marcus had beat up the kids who'd made fun of skinny Jake; Jake had convinced teachers not to punish him. Since then, Marcus had grown a brain (kind of) and Jake had developed muscles. But habits die hard.”

Kind Made Hard Kids Dies Fun Brain Teacher Habit Beats Convinced Teenager Muscles Skinny Jake

Book:Catch a Mate

Source: Catch a Mate

“It is difficult for people of advanced years to start remembering they must die. It is best to form the habit while young.”

People Years Remember Form Young Dies Difficult Habit

Book:Memento Mori

Source: Memento Mori

“If you do not pour water on your plant, what will happen? It will slowly wither and die. Our habits will also slowly wither and die away if we do not give them an opportunity to manifest. You need not fight to stop a habit. Just don’t give it an opportunity to repeat itself. (67)”

Ifs Needs Giving Happens Dies Fighting Opportunity Water Habit Plant Repeats Manifest Bad Habits

Book:Integral Yoga: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

Source: Integral Yoga: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali