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“The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.”

Happiness Break Habit Terrible Inner Peace Hardest

Author:Theodosia Garrison

“In this life our sorrows are either not very long or not very great because nature either overcomes them by habits or puts an end to them by sinking under their weight. But in hell the torments cannot be overcome by habit, for while they are of terrible intensity they are at the same time of continual variety, each pain, so to speak, taking fire from another and re-endowing that which has enkindled it with a still fiercer flame.”

Long Stills Ends Pain Speak Hell Fire Habit Terrible Sorrow Overcoming Weight Variety This Life Flames Intensity Torment Sinking

Book:The Best of James Joyce

Source: The Best of James Joyce

“Newish friends, if they get ghastly, can be weighed and found wanting, but you'd never do a thing like that to old ones; their terrible habits are just part of the universe.”

Ifs Universe Found Friends Habit Terrible Ghastly

Author:Katharine Whitehorn

“It's terrible to allow conventional habits to gain a hold on a whole household; to eat, sleep and live by clock ticks.”

Whole Sleep Habit Terrible Gains Clock Live By Conformity Conventions Household Conventional Tick

Author:Zelda Fitzgerald

“I have this terrible habit of wanting to try to be consistent and develop a philosophy that's coherent.”

Trying Philosophy Habit Terrible Consistent

Author:Ron Paul

“Cakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad just when you especially want them to be good.”

Want Food Habit Terrible Be Good Cake Good Food

Book:The Collected Works of Lucy Maud Montgomery: 20 Novels & 170+ Short Stories, Poems, Letters and Memoirs (Including The Complete Anne Shirley Series, Chronicles of Avonlea & Emily Starr Trilogy): Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of Windy Poplars, Rainbow Valley, Rilla of Ingleside, Emily of New Moon, The Story Girl, The Golden Road, Pat of Silver Bush, The Blue Castle & many more

Source: The Collected Works of Lucy Maud Montgomery: 20 Novels & 170+ Short Stories, Poems, Letters and Memoirs (Including The Complete Anne Shirley Series, Chronicles of Avonlea & Emily Starr Trilogy): Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of Windy Poplars, Rainbow Valley, Rilla of Ingleside, Emily of New Moon, The Story Girl, The Golden Road, Pat of Silver Bush, The Blue Castle & many more

“A single word that can be offensive to someone is a horrible thing for anyone who has iman. In other words, filthy language out of your mouth and faith inside your heart cannot coexist. You cannot have iman in your heart and ugly words come out of your mouth. If you have no control over whatever four letter words you keep using every time you get frustrated, there's a spiritual problem, it's not just a habit problem. How can you use a terrible word for anyone who has iman?”

“I have a terrible habit of shopping after I go to the gym or hitting eBay.”

Habit Terrible Gym Shopping Hitting Ebay

Author:Edie Campbell

“Reading Don Quixote can be compared to an indefinite visit from your most impossible senior relative, with all his pranks, dirty habits, unstoppable reminiscences, and terrible cronies. When the experience is over, and the old boy checks out at last (on page 846 - the prose wedged tight, with no breaks for dialogue), you will shed tears all right; not tears of relief or regret but tears of pride. You made it, despite all that 'Don Quixote' could do.”

Made Lasts Reading Boys Break Impossible Tears Regret Pride Habit Terrible Pages Checks Dialogue Despite Made It Dirty Prose Relief Relative Shed Senior Unstoppable Pranks Cronies

Author:Miguel de Cervantes

“The most unendurable thing, to be sure, the really terrible thing, would be a life without habits, a life which continually required improvisation.”

Would Be Habit Terrible Terrible Things Improvisation Unendurable

Book:The Gay Science

Source: The Gay Science

“My tendency as an actor was to correct people, was to say, 'What if we tried it this way, what about if we tried that way?' That's terrible habit for an actor, but that's a good habit for director. So I became a director.”

People Ifs Way Actors Habit Terrible Directors Tendencies What If Good Habits

Author:David Mamet

“Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.”

Habit Terrible Comfortable Institutions Privilege Revolutionary Destructive My Thoughts Subversive Fear Nothing

Book:Why Men Fight

Source: Why Men Fight

“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.”

Pain Happiness Artist Evil Interesting Trouble Stupid Habit Terrible Intellectual Boredom Considering Refusal Bad Habits Treason Banality Pendants

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“[Peter Pan] has never broken his terrible habit of eavesdropping. So, maybe that wasn't the rustle of pages you heard while this story lasted, but Peter Pan himself, listening in. In exchanged for a story of yours, he might show you his most prized possession: James Hooks' map of Neverland. In exchange for a smile, he may show you Neverland itself.”

May Stories Shows Might Heard Broken Listening Habit Terrible Pages Possession Maps Peter Hook Neverland Eavesdropping Prized Possessions

Author:Geraldine McCaughrean