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“You and I must realize that the English language is filled with words that, in addition to their literal meanings, convey distinct emotional intensity. For example, if you develop a habit of saying you 'hate' things - you 'hate' your hair; you 'hate' your job; you 'hate' having to do something - do you think this raises the intensity of your negative emotional states more than if you use a phrase like 'I prefer something else'?”

Source: Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial

“As long as we are focusing on the breath we do not feed our mental, emotional, and physical patterns. By returning to the breath again and again we start to dissolve their power. We develop a space between experience and our identification with it, thereby weakening the process that creates habits in the first place.”

Firsts Long Process Space Emotional Habit Breaths Patterns Again And Again Identification Space Between Weakening

Author:Martine Batchelor

“Addiction might be redefined not as a character flaw but as a "biochemical deficit management." Our emotional habits will become an accepted factor of good health, along with slogans like "Heartache can be harmful to your unborn children."”

Source: Pain: The Fifth Vital Sign

“Seize the very first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and on every emotional prompting you may experience in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain.”

Firsts May Opportunity Emotional Habit Gains Resolution Aspire

Book:The Heart of William James

Source: The Heart of William James

“You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.”

Love Should Tears Emotional Habit Majors Acquire Lasting Cigar Hurrying Lasting Love Cuban Cigars

Book:The collected works of Aldous Huxley

Source: The collected works of Aldous Huxley

“By using your heart as your compass, you can see more clearly which direction to go to stop self-defeating behavior. If you take just one mental or emotional habit that really bothers or drains you and apply heart intelligence to it, you'll see a noticeable difference in your life.”

Ifs Heart Self Hate Differences Emotional Habit Behavior Bother Just One Compass Drains Self Defeating Behavior

Author:Doc Childre

“When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.”

Men Reason Belief Emotional Habit Conviction Reasoning Logical Intensity Favour

Book:Mysticism and Logic

Source: Mysticism and Logic

“Acting is the most personal of our crafts. The make-up of a human being - his physical, mental and emotional habits - influence his acting to a much greater extent than commonly recognized.”

Humans Motivational Human Beings Acting Greater Influence Emotional Habit Theatre Crafts

Author:Lee Strasberg

“The means of communication, the irresistible output of the entertainment and information industry carry with them prescribed attitudes and habits, certain intellectual and emotional reactions which bind the consumers to the producers and, through the latter to the whole social system. The products indoctrinate and manipulate; they promote a false consciousness which is immune against its falsehood...Thus emerges a pattern of one-dimensional thought and behavior.”

“Cultivating the habit of good deeds will not only affect those around us, it will improve our own emotional well being.”

Wells Kindness Emotional Habit Deeds Well Being Generosity Good Deeds Cultivating Helpfulness Emotional Well Being

Book:One Simple Act: Discovering the Power of Generosity

Source: One Simple Act: Discovering the Power of Generosity