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What torments my soul is its loneliness. The more it expands among friends and the daily habits or pleasures, the more, it seems to me, it flees me and retires into its fortress. The poet who lives in solitude, but who produces much, is the one who enjoys those treasures we bear in our bosom, but which forsake us when we give ourselves to others. When one yields oneself completely to one's soul, it opens itself to one, and then it is that the capricious thing allows one the greatest of good fortunes... that of sympathizing with others, of studying itself, of painting itself constantly in its works. – Eugène Delacroix	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character – Stephen Covey	added by anonymous 10 years ago
My plan of instruction is extremely simple and limited. They learn, on week-days, such coarse works as may fit them for servants. I allow of no writing for the poor. My object is not to make fanatics, but to train up the lower classes in habits of industry and piety. – Hannah More	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The individual who wants to reach the top in business must appreciate the might of the force of habit and must understand that practices are what create habits. He must be quick to break those habits that can break him and hasten to adopt those practices that will become the habits that help him achieve the success he desires. – J. Paul Getty	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Transformation does not happen by learning new information. It happens with the formation of new thinking patterns and new behavioral habits. – Med Jones	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Contrary to popular belief, transformation cannot be based on a single event, advice, book, or seminar. These things may lead to a new insight or even a temporary change, however, real transformation requires the formation of new thinking patterns and behavioral habits. Transformation requires consistent action and time to reinforce new learned values and drop old ones. Once the process of transformation is completed, it will change who you are, your life and the lives of the people around you. – Med Jones	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Sorrow has the fortunate peculiarity that it preys upon itself. It dies of starvation. Since it is essentially an interruption of habits, it can be replaced by new habits. Constituting, as it does, a void, it is soon filled up by a real horror vacuum. – August Strindberg	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs. – Marlene Dietrich	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas. – John Dryden	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The harmony of the nation is promoted and the whole Union is knit together by the sentiments of mutual respect, the habits of social intercourse, and the ties of personal friendship formed between the representatives of its several parts in the performance of their service at this metropolis. – John Quincy Adams	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Men are not to be judged by their looks, habits, and appearances, but by the character of their lives and conversations. ?Tis better that a man?s own works than another man?s words should praise him. – Sir R L?Estrange	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Petrarch observes, that we change language, habits, laws, customs, manners, but not vices, not diseases, not the symptoms of folly and madness?they are still the same. And as a river, we see, keeps the like name and place, but not water, and yet ever runs, our times and persons alter, vices are the same, and ever be. Look how nightingales sang of old, cocks crowed, kine lowed, sheep bleated, sparrows chirped, dogs barked, so they do still: we keep our madness still, play the fool still; we are of the same humours and inclinations as our predecessors were; you shall find us all alike, much as one, we and our sons, and so shall our posterity continue to the last. – Burton	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Small actions can cause great harm, especially when those actions become habits. So just a little tiny change in the right place at the right time, everything will be much better. – Woody Haldrugold	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The case for trade is not just monetary, but moral. Economic freedom creates habits of liberty. And habits of liberty create expectations of democracy. – George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Your beliefs become your thoughts. Your thoughts become your words. Your words become your actions. Your actions become your habits. Your habits become your values. Your values become your destiny. – Mahatma Gandhi	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny. – Tyron Edwards	added by anonymous 13 years ago
In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry of idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe. – Mrs. Sigourney	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Good habits are formed; bad habits we fall into. – Author Unknown	added by anonymous 13 years ago
An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones. – W. Somerset Maugham	added by anonymous 13 years ago
It is hard to let old beliefs go. They are familiar. We are comfortable with them and have spent years building systems and developing habits that depend on them. Like a man who has worn eyeglasses so long that he forgets he has them on, we forget that the world looks to us the way it does because we have become used to seeing it that way through a particular set of lenses. Today, however, we need new lenses. And we need to throw the old ones away. – Kenich Ohmae	added by anonymous 13 years ago
#3546. Things happen according to the ordinary course of nature and the ordinary habits of life. – California Civil Code, "Maxims of Jurisprudence"	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book. – Edward Gibbon	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end. – Henri de Montherlant	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter. – Paxton Hood	added by anonymous 13 years ago

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