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“It's lonely to listen to the pleasure of others, not that I've made a habit of that kind of eavesdropping. There's joy and passion in the next room, in the next bed, but it's not yours.”

Kind Made Joy Passion Next Pleasure Rooms Habit Bed Lonely Eavesdropping

Author:Ben Marcus

“I define self-control, in the beginning of life, as the choice of achieving what I really want by doing things I really don't want to do. Once this becomes a habit, discipline becomes the choice of achieving what I really want by doing the very things I now want to do! I really believe that a disciplined life becomes a joy--but only after we have worked hard to practice it.”

Want Believe Self Hard Joy Choices Practice Achieve Habit Discipline Self Control Beginning Of Life Disciplined Life

Author:John C. Maxwell

“Everything was leveled, there were no extremes of joy or sorrow any more but only habit, routine, ancient family names and rites and customs, slow careful old people moving cautiously around furniture that had sat in the same positions for fifty years.”

People Years Moving Joy Names Position Habit Sorrow Ancient Careful Extremes Sat Fifty Customs Routine Old People Furniture Rite Family Name

Book:Anne Tyler: a new collection : three complete novels

Source: Anne Tyler: a new collection : three complete novels

“... freshness trembles beneath the surface of Everyday, a joy perpetual to all who catch its opal lights beneath the dust of habit.”

Light Joy Habit Everyday Surface Dust Perpetual Freshness Beneath The Surface Opal

Author:Freya Stark

“We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we'll also have a lot more joy in living.”

Ifs Life Inspirational Littles Running Joy Change Successful Habit Letting Go Relax Endeavor Pauses

Author:Nhat Hanh

“Our joy, peace and happiness depend very much on our practice of recognizing and transforming habit energies. There are positive habit energies that we have to cultivate, and negative habit energies that we have to recognize, embrace and transform. The energy with which we do these things is mindfulness.”

Happiness Joy Energy Peace Practice Depends Habit Mindfulness Negative Embrace Recognizing Transforming Peace And Happiness

Author:Nhat Hanh

“Highly competitive athletes like Ginny Gilder have a gift for tolerating pain and ignoring adversity. They accept these things as the price they pay for greatness. These habits of mind and body serve us well in many aspects of our lives, but not in all aspects of our lives. Course Correction is about taking time to heal and exploring the joy that lies beyond adversity.”

“What can become of him if he is in such bondage to the habit of satisfying the innumerable desires he has created for himself? He is isolated, and what concern has he with the rest of humanity? They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.”

Ifs World Joy Desire Humanity Greater Objects Habit Mass Concern Satisfying Isolated Consumerism Bondage Overconsumption

Book:The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)

Source: The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)

“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

“Love and joy are incredibly habit-forming; often a single exposure is enough to cause permanent addiction.”

Enough Joy Causes Habit Addiction Permanent Exposure

Book:Stand on Zanzibar

Source: Stand on Zanzibar

“Get into the habit of singing a tune. It will give you new life and fill you with joy. Get into the habit of dancing. It will displace depression and dispel hardship.”

Giving Joy Habit Singing Dancing Tunes Hardship New Life

Author:Nachman of Breslov

“Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast." ~”

Thinking Mind Heart Happiness Joy Attitude Practice Depends Habit Laughter Positivity Happy Being Happy Merry Power Of Positive Thinking Inner Happiness Habits Of Mind Feasting

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“She seemed to know, to accept, to welcome her position, the citadel of the family, the strong place that could not be taken. And since old Tom and the children could not know hurt or fear unless she acknowledged hurt or fear, she had practiced denying them in herself. And since, when a joyful thing happened, they looked to see whether joy was on her, it was her habit to build laughter out of inadequate materials....She seemed to know that if she swayed the family shook, and if she ever deeply wavered or despaired the family would fall.”

Ifs Knows Children Joy Fall Strong Fear Hurt Accepting Taken Happened Position Materials Habit Laughter Welcome Joyful Toms Inadequate Citadels

Author:John Steinbeck