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“So coming back from a journey, or after an illness, before habits had spun themselves across the surface, one felt that same unreality, which was so startling; felt something emerge. Life was most vivid then.”

Felt Journey Habit Illness Surface Coming Back Vivid Spun Unreality

Book:Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

“It was the peculiar artifice of Habit not to suffer her power to be felt at first. Those whom she led, she had the address of appearing only to attend, but was continually doubling her chains upon her companions; which were so slender in themselves, and so silently fastened, that while the attention was engaged by other objects, they were not easily perceived. Each link grew tighter as it had been longer worn; and when by continual additions they became so heavy as to be felt, they were very frequently too strong to be broken.”

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.: D., with an Essay on His Life and Genius

“I wanted to revolutionise habits and contemporary life - to liberate nature, to free it from the authority of old theories and classicism... I felt a tremendous urge to re-create a new world seen through my own eyes, a world which was entirely mine.”

World Eye Wanted Felt My Own Mines Theory Habit Authority Contemporary Urges New World Contemporary Life Classicism

Book:Dangerous corner

Source: Dangerous corner

“When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to serve Him. No one saw what I endured... At the moment of my entrance into this new state I felt a joy so great that it has never failed me even to this day; and God converted the dryness of my soul into a very great tenderness.”

Soul States Moments Joy Order Felt Lord Saws Violence Habit My Soul This Day Tenderness Favour Entrances

Book:The Life of St Teresa of Avila by Herself

Source: The Life of St Teresa of Avila by Herself

“Towards the end of it [working as an escort girl] I could feel myself drifting towards a liquor habit and I had a few minor mental breakdowns due to a what I felt like was a constant chipping away at my personhood (guys thinking I would have unprotected sex with them if they just paid me fifty more dollars, for instance) and a few abusive clients.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Ends Guy Girl Sex Felt Habit Paid Constant Dollars Dues Instance Fifty Minors Clients Liquor Breakdown Drifting Abusive Personhood Chipping Away Mental Breakdown

Author:Marie Calloway

“After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.”

Enough Home Running Felt Sports Habit Baseball Bases Pitcher Home Run Famous Baseball Sportsmanship Funny Baseball Baseball Hitting Hitting Home Runs Baseball Pitcher Sportsman Spirit

Author:Mickey Mantle

“Miro, I'm so sorry. I always felt such pity for you humans because you could only think of one thing at a time and your memories were so imperfect and . . . now I realize that just getting through the day without killing somebody can be an achievement." It gets to be a habit. Most of us manage to keep our body count quite low. It's the neighborly way to live.”

Thinking Way Humans Body Felt Realizing Memories One Thing Habit Achievement Lows Killing Sorry Pity Manage Imperfect Way To Live One Thing At A Time I'm So Sorry

Author:Orson Scott Card

“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

“When you showed someone how you felt, it was fesh and honest. Whe you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation.”

Might Felt Behinds Honest Habit Expectations

Author:Jodi Picoult

“Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.”

Source: Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha

“When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation. Those three words were what everyone used; simple syllables couldn't contain something as rare as what I felt for Sean. I wanted him to feel what I felt when I was with him: that incredible combination of comfort, decadence, and wonder; the knowledge that, with just a single taste of him, I was addicted.”

Feels Might Wanted Used Three Felt Simple Behinds Wonder Honest Habit Comfort Taste Expectations Incredibles Combination Decadence Syllables Sean Three Words

Book:Handle with Care: A Novel

Source: Handle with Care: A Novel

“I'd written Smashed not because I was ambitious and not because writing down my feelings was cathartic (it felt more like playing one's own neurosurgeon sans anesthesia). No. I'd made a habit--and eventually a profession--of memoir because I hail from one of those families where shows of emotions are discouraged.”

Writing Made Shows Feelings Felt Emotion Written Habit Profession Memoir Ambitious Discouraged Hail Cathartic Anesthesia Neurosurgeons

Author:Koren Zailckas