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“We are to give (and take) true love without falling into the narcissistic habit of only trying to take it in.”

Giving Trying Fall Habit Narcissistic Give And Take

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“My wife has a beastly habit of comparing poetry -- all literature in fact -- to the droppings of the goats among the rocks -- mere excreta that fertilises the ground it falls on.”

Facts Fall Literature Wife Rocks Habit Mere My Wife Compare Dropping Goats Beastly

Book:The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence

Source: The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence

“Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life. Each lapse is like the letting fall of a ball of string which one is carefully winding up; a single slip undoes more than a great many turns will wind again.”

Suffering Turns Fall Wind Habit Balls Great Men Exception Strings Slips Rooted Lapses New Habits Winding Up

Book:The Heart of William James

Source: The Heart of William James

“You should never fall in love with your own press clippings, because it is very much the nature of the beast that the same journalists who build you up between Monday and Friday tear you down for weekend fun...My family's habit of living in the past seems to me pathological, even dangerous. If all greatness lies in the past, what is the point of the future?”

“We easily fall into the habit of accepting compressed statements which save us from the trouble of thinking. Thus arises what I shall call 'Potted Thinking'.”

Thinking Fall Accepting Trouble Habit Arise Statements

Author:Susan Stebbing

“You need not be proud of me.... I'm only being active till you can be again--it isn't such a great desire on my part to serve theworld and I'll fall back into habits of sloth quite easily!”

Needs Desire Fall Politics Marriage Proud Habit Active Be Proud Sloth Fall Back Proud Of Me

Book:Love, Eleanor: Eleanor Roosevelt and Her Friends

Source: Love, Eleanor: Eleanor Roosevelt and Her Friends

“You do have habits and rhythms that you do sort of fall into when you're acting, but if you've got text that doesn't allow you to do that it puts you in a bit of an uncomfortable space and takes you out of your habits.”

Ifs Fall Bits Space Acting Habit Rhythm Uncomfortable

Author:Radha Mitchell

“Workers develop routines when they do the same job for a while. They lose their edge, falling into habits not just in what they do but in how they think. Habits turn into routines. Routines into ruts.”

Thinking Jobs Turns Fall Loses Habit Workers Edges Ruts

Author:Robert J Kriegel

“Once you fall into habits, I think, you're dead as an artist. You have to challenge yourself and never rest on your laurels, never think about what you've done in the past.”

Thinking Done Past Artist Fall Challenges Habit Laurels Challenge Yourself

Author:Jonathan Lethem

“When you do a four-camera sitcom, everything is a little schtickier. It’s not necessarily that you pick up bad habits, but there is just a very specific way of acting that you fall into on those kinds of multicamera shows, and you have to break those habits when you go in to do other things.”

Way Kind Littles Shows Fall Acting Break Four Habit Picks Cameras Sitcom Bad Habits

Author:Mila Kunis

“If we feel that any habit or pursuit, harmless in itself, is keeping us from God and sinking us deeper in the things of earth; if we find that things which others can do with impunity are for us the occasion of falling, then abstinence is our only course. Abstinence alone can recover for us the real value of what should have been for our help but which has been an occasion of falling. ... It is necessary that we should steadily resolve to give up anything that comes between ourselves and God.”

“Mindfulness is the key to everything, and this is especially true when one approaches the cultural portal known as "middle age." This is when people mindlessly believe that it's normal to get diseases and start to fall apart. But the truth is that midlife is the time when people need to wake up and be far more mindful about their everyday habits and thinking patterns.”

People Thinking Needs Believe Age Fall Known Middle Keys Habit Truth Is Disease Normal Approach Mindfulness Wake Up Everyday Patterns Falling Apart Middle Ages Portal Midlife

Author:Christiane Northrup

“As a musician you fall into certain patterns that you're not conscious of, unless you start listening to yourself on tape a lot. If you do that you start recognizing habits; then you have to try and break them.”

Trying Fall Break Listening Habit Musician Conscious

Author:Jerry Garcia

“Despite wanting to work in publishing, I was a publisher's worst nightmare: I rarely bought new books. So my goal was to publish the kind of books I would buy, and read. My reading habits have changed since starting the press. The only other "goal", per say, is to continue to experiment. I don't want the press to ever fall into a formula, or to be pigeonholed - "They do great reissues of modernist poets!" - I want to keep pushing, exploring the kind of title we can get away with. And working with authors who challenge the way I think about writing, editing and reading.”

Thinking Writing Kind Book Fall Reading Goal Challenges Worst Changed Poet Habit Nightmare Get Away Publishing Exploring Publish Reading Habits

Author:Andrew Latimer

“When I start to write a song, I initially fall into patterns and creative habits that are familiar, and because they're familiar, they sound convincing. It's important for me to not pursue those ideas, because I've already done them, but to find ideas that are different and feel strange to write and disconcerting to write.”

Writing Important Different Done Song Fall Creative Strange Habit Familiar Convincing

Author:Nick Cave

“I don't have a BlackBerry or whatever you call it. And there is something to be said for being isolated and out of phone range, because you can fall into a habit to such a degree that you don't even realise that you've lost something: silence.”

Said Fall Lost Silence Habit Degrees Phones Range Realising Isolated Blackberries

Author:Viggo Mortensen

“Science works because the phenomenon being described can be relied on to remain the same. Even in quantum physics, where phenomena are changed by observation, the way in which observation interferes is regular and falls within a limited range of possibilities. Human culture, however, has the nasty habit of never staying the same for very long.”

Way Humans Long Fall Culture Possibility Changed Habit Physics Observation Range Staying Phenomenon Quantum Interfere Nasty Quantum Physics

Author:Julian Baggini

“Whenever the horse stopped (which it did very often), he fell off in front; and, whenever it went on again (which it generally did rather suddenly), he fell off behind. Otherwise he kept on pretty well, except that he had a habit of now and then falling off sideways; and, as he generally did this on the side on which Alice was walking, she soon found that it was the best plan not to walk quite close to the horse.”

Wells Fall Found Sides Walks Behinds Plans Fronts Habit Walking Horse Now And Then Sideways Falling Off

Book:Alice in Wonderland

Source: Alice in Wonderland

“We are, all of us, creatures of habit, and when the seeeming necessity for schooling ourselves in new ways ceases to exist, we fall naturally and easily into the manner and customs which long usage has implanted ineradicably within us.”

Way Long Fall Habit Creatures Cease Customs New Ways Schooling Usage Creatures Of Habit

Book:EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS Ultimate Collection: 30+ Adventure Novels & Science Fiction Classics (Illustrated): The Tarzan Series, The Barsoom Series, The Pelucidar Series, Caspak Trilogy, The Mucker Trilogy, Lost World Novels, Fantastic Stories, Historical Novels and more

Source: EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS Ultimate Collection: 30+ Adventure Novels & Science Fiction Classics (Illustrated): The Tarzan Series, The Barsoom Series, The Pelucidar Series, Caspak Trilogy, The Mucker Trilogy, Lost World Novels, Fantastic Stories, Historical Novels and more

“Death doesn't make you sad- it makes you empty. That's what's so bad about it. All of your charms and beliefs and funny habits fall fast through a big black hole, and suddenly you know they're gone because just as suddenly, there's nothing left at all inside.”

Knows Bigs Fall Belief Left Black Gone Habit Empty Holes Charm Black Hole

Author:Jonathan Carroll

“She seemed to know, to accept, to welcome her position, the citadel of the family, the strong place that could not be taken. And since old Tom and the children could not know hurt or fear unless she acknowledged hurt or fear, she had practiced denying them in herself. And since, when a joyful thing happened, they looked to see whether joy was on her, it was her habit to build laughter out of inadequate materials....She seemed to know that if she swayed the family shook, and if she ever deeply wavered or despaired the family would fall.”

Ifs Knows Children Joy Fall Strong Fear Hurt Accepting Taken Happened Position Materials Habit Laughter Welcome Joyful Toms Inadequate Citadels

Author:John Steinbeck

“...the habit of falling hardens the body, reaching the ground, to in itself, is a relief.”

Body Fall Habit Relief Reaching

Author:Jose Saramago

“When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength.”

Way Two Real Self Suffering Fall Fear Challenges Worry Habit Losing Tragedy Grieving Destructive Inner Strength Two Ways Self Destructive Losing Hope

Author:Dalai Lama

“It’s funny—when people call you “shy,” they usually smile. Like it’s cute, some funny little habit you’ll grow out of when you’re older, like the gaps in your grin when your baby teeth fall out. If they knew how it felt—really being shy, not just unsure at first—they wouldn’t smile. Not if they knew how the feeling knots up your stomach or makes your palms sweat or robs you of the ability to say anything that makes sense. It’s not cute at all.”

People Ifs Firsts Littles Feelings Fall Grows Felt Ability Baby Habit Teeth Make Sense Cute Shy Gaps Stomach Sweat Say Anything Palms Knots Unsure Being Shy Baby Teeth

Author:Claudia Gray

“Just remember, Callum when you’re floating up and up in your bubble, that bubbles have a habit of bursting. The higher you climb, the further you have to fall’ - Lynette McGregor”

Remember Fall Habit Higher Climbs Bubbles Floating Bursting Noughts And Crosses

Author:Malorie Blackman