Best habit & light Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It is so very easy and so very pleasant, too, to read only books which lead to nothing, light and interesting books, and the more the better, that it is almost as difficult to wean ourselves from it as from the habit of chewing tobacco to excess, or of smoking the whole time, or of depending for stimulus upon tea or coffee or spirits.”

Book Whole Light Spirit Easy Difficult Interesting Habit Coffee Tea Pleasant Smoking Excess Stimulus Tobacco Chewing Interesting Book Chewing Tobacco

Author:Charles Francis Adams, Sr.

“I get lots of ideas when the lights go out at night and it gets very quiet. Sometimes they come when I first lie down to sleep; other times I wake up with an idea racing through my mind. But regardless of when an idea comes, I have made it a habit to get out of bed and write the idea down before it disappears into my dreams. You should do the same.”

Should Writing Mind Firsts Made Ideas Sometimes Dream Light Lying Night Sleep Habit Bed Quiet Wake Up Disappear Made It Racing

Book:Embrace the Struggle: Living Life on Life's Terms

Source: Embrace the Struggle: Living Life on Life's Terms

“The light of common sense is fundamentally the same light as that of science, that is to say, the natural light of the intellect. But in common sense this light does not return upon itself by critical reflection, and is not perfected by what we shall learn to know as a scientific habit.”

Knows Doe Light Natural Common Return Habit Reflection Critical Intellect Common Sense Not Perfect Natural Light Critical Reflection

Book:An EPZ Introduction to Philosophy

Source: An EPZ Introduction to Philosophy

“Invariably will you find perseverance exemplified as the radical principle in every truly great character. It facilitates, perfects, and consolidates the execution of the plan conceived, and renders profitable its results when attained. By continuing to advance steadily in the same way, light constantly increases, obstacles disappear, efficient habits are confirmed, experience is acquired, the use of the best means is reduced to easy action, and success becomes more sure.”

Source: Proverbs for the people: or, Illustrations of practical godliness drawn from the Book of wisdom

“abroad it is our habit to regard all other travelers in the light of personal and unpardonable grievances. They are intruders into our chosen realms of pleasure, they jar upon our sensibilities, they lessen our meager share of comforts, they are everywhere in our way, they are always an unnecessary feature in the landscape.”

Way Light Pleasure Share Habit Comfort Travel Regard Chosen Landscape Features Realms Sensibility Unnecessary Traveler Jars Grievance Intruders

Book:Compromises

Source: Compromises

“... 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

“the habit of generalizing from one particular, that mainstay of the cheap and obvious essayist, has rooted many fictions in the public eye. Nothing, for example can blot from my memory the profound, searching, and exhaustive analysis of a great nation which I learned in my small geography when I was a child, namely, 'The French are a gay and polite people fond of dancing and light wines.”

People Children Light Eye Nations Memories Fiction Example Particular Habit Gay Wine Dancing Profound Obvious Analysis Rooted Polite Geography Great Nations Public Eye Essayists

Author:Kate Douglas Wiggin

“The time which passes over our heads so imperceptibly makes the same gradual change in habits, manners and character, as in personal appearance. At the revolution of every five years we find ourselves another and yet the same;--there is a change of views, and no less of the light in which we regard them; a change of motives as well as of action.”

Years Wells Character Light Action Time Views Five Revolution Habit Regard Appearance Manners Motive Five Years Personal Appearance Gradual Change

Book:Waverley Novels

Source: Waverley Novels

“For all our penny-wisdom, for all our soul-destroying slavery to habit, it is not to be doubted that all men have sublime thoughts; that all men value the few real hours of life; they love to be heard; they love to be caught up into the vision of principles. We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had, in the dreary years of routine and of sin, with souls that made our souls wiser; that spoke what we thought; that told us what we knew; that gave us leave to be what we only were.”

Source: Essays and Lectures

“It is quite deplorable to see how many rational creatures, or at least who are thought so, mistake suffering for sanctity, and think a sad face and a gloomy habit of mind propitious offerings to that Deity whose works are all light and lustre and harmony and loveliness.”

Thinking Mind Light Faces Suffering Mistake Sadness Habit Creatures Harmony Rational Offering Deities Gloomy Sanctity Loveliness Habits Of Mind Sad Face

Author:Sydney, Lady Morgan

“How can the poem and the stink and the grating noise - the quality of light, the tone, the habit and the dream - be set down alive?”

Dream Light Quality Alive Habit Noise Tone Stink

Book:Cannery Row

Source: Cannery Row

“But yet it is evident that religion consists so much in affection, as that without holy affection there is no true religion; and no light in the understanding is good which does not produce holy affection in the heart: no habit or principle in the heart is good which has no such exercise; and no external fruit is good which does not proceed from such exercises.”

Heart Doe Light Understanding Principles Produce Habit Exercise Holy Fruit Affection Evident True Religion

Book:A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections: A Reprint from the Worcester Edition, Without Alteration, Mutilation, Or Omission

Source: A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections: A Reprint from the Worcester Edition, Without Alteration, Mutilation, Or Omission

“Working out is a healthy habit: it helps you stay light and energetic. At least, that is how it works for me, and over the years it has been one of my greatest passions.”

Years Has Beens Helping Light Passion Habit Healthy Work Out Energetic Healthy Habits

Author:Rohit Shetty

“I have seen too many men wilt and go silly under a little light, and then they continue to write and get published, turning out pure crap under a name that has become a bad habit. The next poem is all that counts. You can't stand on past poems.”

Men Writing Littles Light Past Next Names Habit Pure Silly Crap Bad Habits

Author:Charles Bukowski

“An idea is a light turned on in a man's soul. Comic-strip artists are in the habit of representing it by means of a light bulb flashing on, above the head of a character who has suddenly grasped an idea. In simple, primitive terms, this is an appropriate symbol.”

Men Mean Ideas Soul Character Light Artist Term Simple Habit Symbols Comic Appropriate Primitive Representing Bulbs Light Bulb Comic Strips

Book:Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

Source: Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

“True repentance is no light matter. It is a thorough change of heart about sin, a change showing itself in godly sorrow and humiliation - in heartfelt confession before the throne of grace - in a complete breaking off from sinful habits, and an abiding hatred of all sin. Such repentance is the inseparable companion of saving faith in Christ.”

Heart Matter Light Christ Sin Grace Habit Sorrow Hatred Saving Companion Repentance Confession Thrones Humiliation Godly Abiding Inseparable Heartfelt Thorough Change Of Heart True Repentance

Author:J. C. Ryle

“Yes, God loves you this very day and always. He is not waiting to love you until you have overcome your weaknesses and bad habits. He loves you today with a full understanding of your struggles. He is aware that you reach up to Him in heartfelt and hopeful prayer. He knows of the times you have held onto the fading light and believed-even in the midst of growing darkness. He knows of your sufferings. He knows of your remorse for the times you have fallen short or failed. And still He loves you.”

“Long enough have you dream'd contemptible dreams, Now I wash the gum from your eyes, You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life”

Long Enough Moments Dream Light Eye Habit Gum Leaves Of Grass Dazzle

Book:Walt Whitman's

Source: Walt Whitman's

“There are betrayals in war that are childlike compared with our human betrayals during peace. The new lovers enter the habits of the other. Things are smashed, revealed in a new light. This is done with nervous or tender sentences, although the heart is an organ of fire.”

Humans Heart War Done Light Fire Habit Lovers Betrayal Sentences Nervous Organs Childlike

Author:Michael Ondaatje

“A woman cannot live in the light of intellect. Society forbids it. Those conventional frivolities, which are called her 'duties', forbid it. Her 'domestic duties', high-sounding words, which, for the most part, are but bad habits (which she has not the courage to enfranchise herself from, the strength to break through), forbid it.”

Light Break Duty Habit Intellect Conventional Bad Habits Break Through Frivolity

Book:Cassandra: And Other Selections from Suggestions for Thought

Source: Cassandra: And Other Selections from Suggestions for Thought

“I waited for her to catch up, and when I did, she slowed down, and I missed seeing the light in her hair. I never told Nadia how much I liked seeing the halo the sunlight made of her hair. Sometimes silence is a habit that hurts.”

Love Made Sometimes Light Hurt Silence Seeing Hair Habit Down And Sunlight Silence Is Halos Seeing The Light

Book:The View from Saturday

Source: The View from Saturday

“Now that physics is proving the intelligence of the universe what are we to do about the stupidity of mankind? I include myself. I know that the earth is not flat but my feet are. I know that space is curved but my brain has been condoned by habit to grow in a straight line. What I call light is my own blend of darkness. What I call a view is my hand-painted trompe-l'oeil. I run after knowledge like a ferret down a ferret hole. My limitations, I call the boundaries of what can be known. I interpret the world by confusing other people's psychology with my own.”

“What Corrigan wanted was a fully believable God, one you could find in the grime of the everyday... He consoled himself with the fact that, in the real world, when he looked closely into the darkness he might find the presence of a light, damaged and bruised, but a little light all the same. He wanted, quite simply, for the world to be a better place, and he was in the habit of hoping for it.”

World Littles Real Facts Light Might Wanted Darkness Habit Everyday Real World Better Place Believable Bruised Grime

Author:Colum McCann

“Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.”

Source: Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha

“You have some severe mental problem I need to be aware of, don’t you? (Shahara) Just because I eat babies for breakfast and pick my teeth with their bones doesn’t mean I’m nuts. (Syn) Any other weird habits I should be aware of? (Shahara) Just my need to dance naked in the streets under the light of a full moon. (Syn)”

Needs Should Mean Problem Light Streets Baby Habit Moon Picks Bones Teeth Naked Breakfast Nuts Severe Full Moon

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

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