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“However depressed I may be I am not in the habit of giving up a project without having tried everything, even the 'impossible', to gain my end.”

Giving May Ends Impossible Habit Giving Up Projects Gains Determination

Book:Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal

Source: Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal

“A person who wills to have a good will, already has a good will--in its rudiments. There is solid satisfaction in knowing that the mere desire to get out of an old habit is a material advance upon the condition of submergence in that habit. The longest step toward cleanliness is made when one gains--nothing but dissatisfaction with dirt.”

Persons Made Desire Steps Knowing Conditions Materials Habit Gains Mere Satisfaction Dirt Good Will Dissatisfaction Cleanliness Old Habits

Book:The Meaning of God in Human Experience

Source: The Meaning of God in Human Experience

“He that puts on a religious habit abroad to gain himself a great name among men, and at the same time lives like an atheist at home, shall at the last be uncovered by God and presented before all the world for a most outrageous hypocrite.”

Men World Home Lasts Names Religious Habit Gains Atheist Hypocrisy Hypocrite Outrageous

Author:Thomas Brooks

“The dialectical critique of positivist habits of mind ... is interested only in behaviour which is 'important' to the actor; that is, behaviour which is emotionally charged to the degree that it is either frequently recalled, reflected upon, or day-dreamed about. ... That science which is less discriminating in the behaviour it chooses to investigate gains clarity and distinctiveness at the cost of confining itself to the trivial.”

Mind Important Actors Habit Cost Degrees Gains Clarity Behaviour Critique Habits Of Mind

Author:John Carroll

“It's terrible to allow conventional habits to gain a hold on a whole household; to eat, sleep and live by clock ticks.”

Whole Sleep Habit Terrible Gains Clock Live By Conformity Conventions Household Conventional Tick

Author:Zelda Fitzgerald

“When we look at the matter from another point of view, great caution would seem to be required. For the habit of lightly changing the laws is an evil, and, when the advantage is small, some errors both of lawgivers and rulers had better be left; the citizen will not gain so much by making the change as he will lose by the habit of disobedience.”

Looks Matter Seems Law Evil Left Loses Justice Views Habit Citizens Gains Advantage Errors Point Of View Rulers Caution Disobedience

Book:Politics

Source: Politics

“When by habit a man cometh to have a bargaining soul, its wings are cut, so that it can never soar. It bindeth reason an apprentice to gain, and instead of a director, maketh it a drudge.”

Men Soul Reason Cutting Habit Directors Gains Wings Profit Soar Apprentice Bargaining

Author:Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

“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

“Whoever hates his sins will stop sinning; and whoever confesses them will receive remission. A man can not abandon the habit of sin if he does not first gain enmity toward sin, nor can he receive remission of sin without confession of sin. For the confession of sin is the cause of true humility.”

Ifs Men Inspirational Firsts Doe Christian Hate Causes Religious Sin Humility Habit Gains Abandon Orthodox Confession Can Not Enmity Sinning Remission True Humility

Author:Isaac of Nineveh

“It took me five months to lose twenty pounds and it took me hours to gain it back. I mean it was magical how quickly it all happened. Going back to my poor eating habits after having really good eating habits my stomach was a little unsettled.”

Mean Littles Hours Loses Poor Five Happened Months Habit Eating Gains Twenties Pounds Stomach Eating Habits Good Eating

Author:Mila Kunis

“Absolute freedom is absolute nonsense! We gain freedom in anything through commitment, discipline, and fixed habit.”

Habit Discipline Commitment Gains Absolutes Fixed Nonsense Absolute Freedom

Author:Richard J. Foster

“The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to achieving your dreams.”

“But the transformation of consciousness undertaken in Taoism and Zen is more like the correction of faulty perception or the curing of a disease. It is not an acquisitive process of learning more and more facts or greater and greater skills, but rather an unlearning of wrong habits and opinions. As Lao-tzu said, "The scholar gains every day, but the Taoist loses every day.”

Source: The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness