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“For now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing, I turn to my diary for repose. The habit of entering accurately must help sooth me.”

Ifs Ends Helping Feelings Turns My Own Brain Habit Shock Entering Diaries Repose Undoing

Book:Dracula

Source: Dracula

“There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow-men.”

Ifs Men Feelings Individual Compassion Habit Morality Eating Capable Direct Fellows Independence Doctrine Fellow Man Eating Out Fellow Feeling

Book:Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“Oh, I have a habit of letting myself be lectured on the things I know best. I like to see if they are understood in the same way I understand; for there are many ways of knowing the same thing”

Ifs Knows Way Knowing Habit Understood

Author:Alfred de Vigny

“When Kino had finished, Juana came back to the fire and ate her breakfast. They had spoken once, but there is not need for speech if it is only a habit anyway. Kino sighed with satisfaction - and that was conversation.”

Ifs Needs Fire Habit Conversation Speech Satisfaction Finished Breakfast

Book:The Pearl

Source: The Pearl

“I like to change liquor stores frequently because the clerks got to know your habits if you went in night and day and bought huge quantities. I could feel them wondering why I wasn't dead yet and it made me uncomfortable. They probably weren't thinking any such thing, but then a man gets paranoid when he has 300 hangovers a year.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Men Feels Years Made Night Wonder Huge Habit Drinking Stores Uncomfortable Quantity Liquor Paranoid Hangover Clerks Liquor Stores

Author:Charles Bukowski

“You think me foolish to call instruction a torment, but if you had been as much used as myself to hear poor little children first learning their letters and then learning to spell, if you had ever seen how stupid they can be for a whole morning together, and how tired my poor mother is at the end of it, as I am in the habit of seeing almost every day of my life at home, you would allow that to torment and to instruct might sometimes be used as synonymous words.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Children Littles Ends Sometimes Whole Home Might Together Used Mother Poor Morning Seeing Stupid Habit Letters Tired Foolish Spells Instruction Torment

Book:Northanger Abbey (illustrated)

Source: Northanger Abbey (illustrated)

“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

“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

“I walked down my snow covered street. Out of habit I turned and checked for my footsteps. When I arrived at my building I looked for my name on the buzzers. And because I know that sometimes I see things that aren't there, after dinner I called Information to ask if I was listed.(25)”

Ifs Knows Sometimes Asks Names Streets Information Building Habit Dinner Snow Covered Footsteps Buzzers

Book:The History of Love: A Novel

Source: The History of Love: A Novel

“I believe the greatest trick of the devil is not to get us into some sort of evil but rather have us wasting time. This is why the devil tries so hard to get Christians to be religious. If he can sink a man's mind into habit, he will prevent his heart from engaging God. I was into habit.”

Ifs Men Trying Mind Believe Heart Hard Christian Evil I Believe Religious Habit Devil Tricks Wasting Time Engaging

Book:Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

Source: Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

“It is worth repeating at this point the theories that Ford had come up with, on his first encounter with human beings, to account for their peculiar habit of continually stating and restating the very very obvious, as in "It's a nice day," or "You're very tall," or "So this is it, we're going to die." His first theory was that if human beings didn't keep exercising their lips, their mouths probably shriveled up. After a few months of observation he had come up with a second theory, which was this--"If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, their brains start working.”

Ifs Firsts Humans Dies Human Beings Brain Nice Theory Months Habit Exercise Mouths Accounts Lips Come Up Obvious Observation Encounters Tall Peculiar Nice Day

Book:The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Source: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“I am a strong individualist by personal habit, inheritance, and conviction; but it is a mere matter of common sense to recognize that the State, the community, the citizens acting together, can do a number of things better than if they were left to individual action.”

Ifs Matter States Action Together Individual Left Strong Can Do Community Common Numbers Acting Habit Citizens Unity Mere Conviction Common Sense Inheritance Acting Together

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“If Jacob was right and clothes were costumes and makeup a mask, then our attitudes and habits must be our shields.”

Ifs Attitude Habit Clothes Mask Makeup Costumes Shields Jacob

Author:Justina Chen

“No fiction is worth reading except for entertainment. If it entertains and is clean, it is good literature, or its kind. If it forms the habit of reading, in people who might not read otherwise, it is the best literature.”

People Ifs Kind Might Form Reading Literature Fiction Habit Clean Entertainment Worth Reading Good Literature Best Literature

Author:Edgar Rice Burroughs

“But I wondered if all this kissing was a bad habit with him and me. The thing we did with our mouths instead of talking.”

Ifs Talking Habit Kissing Mouths Bad Habits

Author:Gabrielle Zevin

“We are, largely, who we remember ourselves to be. That's why habits are so hard to break. If we know ourselves to be liars, we expect not to tell the truth. If we think of ourselves as honest, we try harder.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Trying Hard Remember Break Honest Habit Harder Telling The Truth Liars

Book:White Cat

Source: White Cat

“Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires intelligence, vigilance, dedication, and courage. But if we don't practice these tough habits of thought, we cannot hope to solve the truly serious problems that face us --- and we risk becoming a nation of suckers, up for grabs by the next charlatan who comes along.”

“Speaking the Lord’s name with reverence must simply be part of our lives as members of the Church... we do not use foul language. We do not curse or defame. We do not use the Lord’s name in vain. It is not difficult to become perfect in avoiding a swearing habit, for if one locks his mouth against all words of cursing,... he is en route to perfection in that matter.”

Ifs Matter Use Names Language Difficult Church Perfect Lord Our Lives Habit Members Mouths Perfection Vain Curse Reverence Locks Routes Avoiding Foul Swearing Cursing Foul Language

Author:Spencer W. Kimball

“Habit is necessary. It is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive ... one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in the big things, and happy in small ways.”

Ifs Way Long Bigs Past Alive Habit Intellectual Curiosity Usual Big Things Trails Insatiable Unafraid Ruts Incessantly Disintegration Intellectual Curiosity

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)

“If you do not pour water on your plant, what will happen? It will slowly wither and die. Our habits will also slowly wither and die away if we do not give them an opportunity to manifest. You need not fight to stop a habit. Just don’t give it an opportunity to repeat itself. (67)”

Ifs Needs Giving Happens Dies Fighting Opportunity Water Habit Plant Repeats Manifest Bad Habits

Book:Integral Yoga: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

Source: Integral Yoga: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

“If the years of youth are experienced slowly, while the later years of life hurtle past at an ever-increasing speed, it must be habit that causes it. We know full well that the insertion of new habits or the changing of old ones is the only way to preserve life, to renew our sense of time, to rejuvenate, intensify, and retard our experience of time - and thereby renew our sense of life itself. That is the reason for every change of scenery and air.”

Ifs Knows Way Years Wells Reason Past Causes Air Youth Habit Speed Preserves Scenery Retard Years Of Life New Habits Change Of Scenery

Author:Thomas Mann

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