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“There is a story in Zen circles about a man and a horse. The horse is galloping quickly, and it appears that the man on the horse is going somewhere important. Another man standing alongside the road, shouts, «Where are you going?» and the first man replies, «I don't know! Ask the horse!» This is also our story. We are riding a horse, and we don't know where we are going and we can't stop. The horse is our habit energy pulling us along, and we are powerless.”

Knows Men Firsts Important Stories Asks Energy He Man Habit Standing Horse Circles Riding Pulling Powerless Another Man Galloping

Book:The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation

Source: The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation

“Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping. Happiness is a habit. Cultivate it.”

Half Habit Horse Arise Pulling Caution Failure In Life

Author:Elbert Hubbard

“Even dogs and horses have their actions modified by association with human beings; they form different habits because human beings are concerned with what they do.”

Humans Different Action Form Human Beings Dog Habit Concerned Horse Association

Book:Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

Source: Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

“In the Buddhist texts, some of them say, when you die, basically that wild horse gets cut loose, and the mind is incredibly powerful and expansive, omniscient and can go anywhere and see anything, but - and this is the catch - it's colored by the habits of thought we made in life.”

Mind Made Dies Powerful Cutting Habit Horse Buddhist Omniscient Wild Horses

Author:George Saunders

“My view is that our minds are incredibly powerful animals that are, during life, kept somewhat in check by the load of our bodies. Once that load is gone (or so some ancient texts teach us) the mind is like a horse off the tether. So the habits we get into here might have something to do with what happens to us afterwards. An exciting but harrowing idea, given the everyday state of my mind. But also hopeful, since that's something a person can work with.”

Mind Persons Ideas States Body Might Happens Given Animal Views Powerful Teach Gone Habit Exciting Horse Everyday Ancient Checks Hopeful Load Of My Mind

Author:George Saunders

“I would drink gallons of coffee a day. Even now, off caffeine, I talk faster than anyone you've ever met. I finally recognized that I'm naturally amped up. But when I quit I was worried that I would never write again. It was like anyone who's kicked a habit. I was in a blanket shivering, trying to kick the horse.”

Writing Trying Habit Drink Horse Coffee Quitting Worried Blanket I Quit Caffeine

Author:Nathan Englander

“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

“There was an air of indifference about them, a calm produced by the gratification of every passion; and through their manners were suave, one could sense beneath them that special brutality which comes from the habit of breaking down half-hearted resistances that keep one fit and tickle one’s vanity—the handling of blooded horses, the pursuit of loose women.”

Source: Madame Bovary: Patterns of Provincial Life

“Got to keep losing horses," he said drowsily. "Bad habit.”

Said Habit Losing Horse Bad Habits

Author:John Flanagan