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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

“If you form the habit of taking what someone else says about a thing without checking it out for yourself, you'll find that other people will have you hating your friends and loving your enemies.”

People Ifs Form Hate Enemy Habit Hate You Loving You Loving Your Enemies

Author:Malcolm X

“I hate repetition. Even when I am home and have to buy milk, I go a different way each time to avoid having a habit of anything. Habits are really bad. So to me it is really important to live in what I call the spaces in-between. Bus stations, trains, taxis or waiting rooms in airports are the best places because you are open to destiny, you are open to everything and anything can happen.”

“What makes the Southern Poverty Law Center particularly odious is its habit of taking legitimate conservatives and jumbling them with genuine hate groups (the Klan, Aryan Nation, skinheads, etc.), to make it appear that there's a logical relationship between say opposing affirmative action and lynching, or demands for an end to government services for illegal aliens and attacks on dark-skinned immigrants. The late novelist/philosopher Ayn Rand called this 'the broad-brush smear.'”

“A husband and wife who are in the habit of occupying separate rooms are either beings apart, or they have found happiness. Either they hate or they adore each other.”

Hate Found Rooms Wife Habit Husband Adore Husband And Wife Found Happiness

Author:Honore de Balzac

“The reverence for the deeds of our ancestors is a treacherous sentiment. Their merit was not to reverence the old, but to honor the present moment; and we falsely make them excuses of the very habit which they hated and defied.”

Moments Hate Influence Habit Honor Deeds Excuse Hated Merit Present Moment Sentiments Reverence Ancestor Treacherous

Book:Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Marriage is a triumph of habit over hate.”

Hate Habit Triumph

Book:The Memoirs of an Amnesiac

Source: The Memoirs of an Amnesiac

“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

“I get flack for saying [when I visit a college and give a speech], "This is a nice college, but the really great educator is McDonald's." They hate me for saying this and think I'm a slimy creature. But McDonald's hires people with bad work habits, trains them, and teaches them to come to work on time and have good work habits. I think a lot of what goes on there is better than at Harvard.”

People Thinking Giving Hate Teach Nice College Goes On Habit Creatures Speech Train Good Work Really Great Harvard Educator Hate Me Mcdonalds Work Habits They Hate Me

Author:Charlie Munger

“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

“I hate it when people tell me the end of the story because my mother always read the last page of a novel first to see whether she wanted to read it. It was a strange reading habit.”

People Firsts Ends Stories Wanted Lasts Mother Hate Reading Novel Strange Habit Pages I Hate Reading Habits

Author:Alice Hoffman

“Personally, I hate flossing. So this is the first discipline I quit when I am stressed. But if I stop this one important habit, then I might be tempted to cheat on my eating plan, stay up too late, or skip my Bible reading. If I stay faithful in doing something that I don't enjoy, I tend to believe that I'm disciplined. Therefore, I eat better, go to bed on time, and stay in God's Word.”

“Here's a habit I never thought I'd develop: I gravitate to anything online that's marked 'most popular' or 'most e-mailed.' And I hate myself a little bit every time I do.”

Littles Hate Bits Habit Little Bit I Hate Online Hate Myself I Hate Myself

Author:Susan Orlean

“It"s good to keep wide-open ears and listen to what everybody else has to say, but when you come to make a decision, you have to weigh all of what you"ve heard on its own, and place it where it belongs, and come to a decision for yourself; you"ll never regret it. But if you form the habit of taking what someone else says about a thing without checking it out for yourself, you"ll find that other people will have you hating your friends and loving your enemies.”

People Ifs Form Hate Decision Enemy Heard Regret Habit Ears Wide Never Regret Loving Your Enemies

Author:Malcolm X

“somehow we have overlooked the fact this treasured called the heart can also be broken, has been broken, and now lies in pieces down under the surface. When it comes to habits we cannot quit or patterns we cannot stop, anger that flies out of nowhere, fears we cannot overcome, or weaknesses we hate to admit--much of what troubles us comes out of the broken places in our hearts crying out for relief. Jesus speaks as if we are all brokenhearted. We would do well to trust His perspective on this.”

Ifs Wells Heart Has Beens Facts Lying Hate Jesus Speak Pieces Trouble Cry Broken Perspective Habit Weakness Overcoming Patterns Surface Quitting Relief Overlooked Treasured Brokenhearted

Author:John Eldredge