“Your closest relationships are often the ones that have the most effect on you, but they are frequently the ones most difficult to change. These relationships are complex and have long histories. Lifetime habits of avoiding being really present with each other may exist in many of them. Family members, for instance, might want to support you, but will not necessarily know how to genuinely listen or be present with you in a way that is enlivening. . . . Even with the best intentions, it can be very difficult to get beyond the past and into the Now.” KnowsWayWantMayLongMightPastDifficultSupportKnow HowRelationshipEffectsHabitMembersIntentionLifetimeComplexesInstanceBeing RealClosestAvoidingFamily MembersSupport YouBest Intentions Author:Richard Moss
“There are the samskaras, the tendencies from your other lifetimes, ways of seeing, habits that are so strong, they affect you now. They are the operative situations in your life that are created by karma.” WayStrongSituationSeeingHabitLifetimeKarmaTendenciesSamskara Author:Frederick Lenz
“The habits of a lifetime when everything else had to come before writing are not easily broken, even when circumstances now often make it possible for writing to be first; habits of years - responses to others, distractibility, responsibility for daily matters - stay with you, mark you, become you. The cost of discontinuity (that pattern still imposed on women) is such a weight of things unsaid, an accumulation of material so great, that everything starts up something else in me; what should take weeks take me sometimes months to write; what should take months, takes years.” ShouldWritingYearsFirstsStillsSometimesMatterResponsibilityWeekMaterialsBrokenMonthsHabitCircumstancesCostWeightMarkLifetimeResponsePatternsTake MeAccumulationUnsaidDiscontinuity Book:Silences Source: Silences
“The habits of craft, developed day in and day out over a working lifetime, create moments of astonishment, sublime and magical effects, precisely because the writer is not thinking overtly about making art.” ThinkingWritingArtMomentsEffectsHabitLifetimeCraftsSublimeAstonishment Book:Writing a Book That Makes a Difference Source: Writing a Book That Makes a Difference
“The good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties. This exercise must occupy a complete lifetime. One swallow does make a spring, nor does one fine day. Excellence is a habit, not an event.” MenDoeSoulEventsFineHabitExerciseSpringExcellenceLifetimeActiveFacultyFine Day Author:Aristotle
“I neither want it [brandy] nor need it, but I should think it pretty hazardous to interfere with the ineradicable habit of a lifetime.” ThinkingWantNeedsShouldHabitLifetimeInterfereBrandy Book:The Churchill Wit Source: The Churchill Wit
“I am by nature not a list-keeper, but I do keep lists of names and add at least one or two every single day without exception. First names, last names, middle names, combinations of. I've collected more over the years than I can possibly ever use in a single lifetime, but I keep the list going nonetheless. I tell my students that it's a habit, an act of attention, that will keep them engaged, keep them thinking about characters and stories, and how that match might get made.” ThinkingCharacterAttentionStudentsHabitLifetimeExceptionSingle Life Author:Jack Driscoll