Feelings, by themselves, do not create problems. It is rather the tendency to interpret and analyze them. When out of habit you believe those interpretations, it is there that the suffering begins.
I had this habit of an academic of answering the question. I should have fobbed it off.
Television allowed me to kick the Hollywood habit of typing an actor in certain roles.
It is always possible to be thankful for what is given rather than to complain about what is not given. One or the other becomes a habit of life.
Habits are products of our choice; we are what we make of ourselves.
Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things one could get used to.
Youth is the seed time of good habits, as well in nations as in individuals.
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.
Excitement about things became a habit, a part of my personality, and the expectation that I should enjoy new experiences often engendered the enjoyment itself.
Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
Unless we can psychologically accommodate change, we ourselves begin to die, inwardly. What I am saying is that objects, customs, habits, and ways of life must perish so that the authentic human being can live. And it is the authentic human being who matters most, the viable, elastic organism which can bounce back, absorb, and deal with the new.
Decision-making when things show up instead of when they blow up is actually a habit that can be developed and enhanced. The trick is to get used the clean feeling of having decided, instead of sitting on a fence.
Yoga takes us to an unconditioned freedom, because yoga sees even good habits as a form of conditioning or limitation.
Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
A novel with a bad middle is a bad book. A bad ending is something I've just gotten in the habit of forgiving.
The day I acquired the habit of consciously pronouncing the words "thank you", I felt I had gained possession of a magic wand capable of transforming everything.
I don't want to make a habit of just playing small roles, because I really enjoy the process of being part of a film and staying on it for the length of time that everybody else is as well.
You get into habits. Ways of being with certain people.
Your habits operate at the unconscious level; you are not normally aware of them. It's only by bringing a habit into your conscious awareness that you can observe what it's doing, how it empowers and serves you or doesn't.
Don't be too quickTo break bad habits: better stick,Like the Mission folk, to your arsenic.