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“A well-composed song strikes the mind and softens the feelings, and produces a greater effect than a moral work, which convinces our reason, but does not warm our feelings, nor effect the slightest alteration in our habits”

Mind Wells Doe Reason Feelings Song Moral Greater Effects Produce Habit Warm Strikes Convince Ballads Alterations

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Rise early, that by habit it may become familiar, agreeable, healthy, and profitable. It may, for a while, be irksome to do this, but that will wear off; and the practice will produce a rich harvest forever thereafter; whether in public or private walks of life.”

May Walks Practice Forever Rich Produce Habit Healthy Familiar Harvest Profitable Walks Of Life

Book:Letters and Addresses,

Source: Letters and Addresses,

“When Goethe says that in every human condition foes lie in wait for us, "invincible only by cheerfulness and equanimity," he does not mean that we can at all times be really cheerful, or at a moment's notice; but that the endeavor to look at the better side of things will produce the habit, and that this habit is the surest safeguard against the danger of sudden evils.”

Source: Table-talk: To which are added Imaginary conversations of Pope and Swift

“Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.”

Results Struggle Progress Produce Habit Machines Breaking Promises Sith

Author:G. I. Gurdjieff

“Almost everything we'll ever do in life that is really powerful, that really produces a result in our lives, that quantum-leaps us to a new level . . . requires us to do something uncomfortable. It takes risks to achieve. It's often scary. It requires something you didn't know before or a skill you didn't have before. But in the end, it's worth it. As former Congressman Ed Forman says, 'Winners are those people who make a habit of doing things losers are uncomfortable doing.' Make today your day to start that uncomfortable new habit.”

“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

“Discipline, as understood by a warrior, is creative, open, and produces freedom. It is the ability to face the unknown, transforming the feeling of knowing into reverent astonishment; of considering things that exceed the scope of our habits, and daring to face the only war that is worthwhile: The battle for awareness.”

War Feelings Faces Ability Creative Knowing Awareness Produce Habit Discipline Battle Understood Warrior Worthwhile Daring Considering Scope Exceed Transforming Astonishment

Author:Carlos Castaneda

“On a psychic level, we could be carrying energies and entities and cravings and habits and confusion and patterns of behavior from generation to generation that we don't want. We could also have picked up loose energies or entities from places we visit or live, and this could be very confusing. It could reinforce or even produce addictions and cravings that don't really belong to us.”

Want Energy Levels Generations Produce Habit Behavior Addiction Patterns Confusion Entity Psychics Confusing Craving

Author:Robert Moss

“A keystone habit leads to other positive habits and disciplines. These positive traits start a chain reaction that produces other positive outcomes. The presence of these important habits help you become more faithful in other areas of your life. On the other hand, the absence of these key disciplines can impact you negatively.”

Important Helping Hands Produce Keys Habit Discipline Areas Impact Absence Reactions Chains Faithful Outcomes Traits Keystones Chain Reactions Positive Outcome

Author:Craig Groeschel

“Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous.”

Action Beautiful Mother Produce Habit Daughter Nurse Prosperous

Book:The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor, Lord Bishop of Down, Connor and Dromore: Sermons

Source: The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor, Lord Bishop of Down, Connor and Dromore: Sermons