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Habitual texters may not only cheat their existing relationships, they can also limit their ability to form future ones since they don't get to practice the art of interpreting nonverbal visual cues. -- Jeffrey Kluger
I am more than just a serious basketball fan. I am a life-long addict. I was addicted from birth, in fact, because I was born in Kentucky and I learned, early on, that Habitual Domination was a natural way of life. -- Hunter S. Thompson
Habitual intoxication is the epitome of every crime. -- Douglas William Jerrold
Habitual caution ties and binds us; it is as if we were dressed always in clothes and shoes that were several sizes too small. -- Laura Huxley
Habitual liars invent falsehoods not to gain any end or even to deceive their hearers, but to amuse themselves. It is partly practice and partly habit. It requires an effort in them to speak truth. -- William Hazlitt
Habitual procrastinators will readily testify to all the lost opportunities, missed deadlines, failed relationships and even monetary losses incurred just because of one nasty habit of putting things off until it is often too late. -- Stephen Richards
When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity lose no time in recovering your self-control, and do not remain out of tune longer than you can help. Habitual recurrence to the harmony will increase your mastery of it. -- Marcus Aurelius
Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation. -- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort. -- Pierre de Coubertin
Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you. -- Ovid
There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness. -- Charles Baudelaire
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. -- William James
There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor. -- Thomas Wentworth Higginson
The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts. -- Blaise Pascal
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -- Eustace Budgell
Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted. -- William Hazlitt
People aren't religious because it's easy not to be. Like anything, it's habitual, and once it's a habit it's no longer hard. -- Matisyahu
Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts. -- Marcus Aurelius
In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue. -- Thomas Jefferson
A habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the moral; and men lose at once the power of protecting themselves, and of discerning the cause of their oppression. -- Joel Barlow
Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire. -- Orison Swett Marden
Mindfulness helps us freeze the frame so that we can become aware of our sensations and experiences as they are, without the distorting coloration of socially conditioned responses or habitual reactions. -- Henepola Gunaratana
The way to know about championship quality is to learn from champions, and that I did; studying them with professional purpose during my time in the ring and from habitual interest afterward. -- Gene Tunney
To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history. -- Eckhart Tolle
We come to meditation to learn how not to act out the habitual tendencies we generally live by - those actions that create suffering for ourselves and others, and get us into so much trouble. -- Sharon Salzberg
It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not only the original imperative of conduct, but the original metaphysic of living, were by no means altogether habitual. -- Lascelles Abercrombie
Evidence of defendants' lavish lifestyles is often used to provide a motive for fraud. Jurors sometimes wonder why an executive making tens of millions of dollars would cheat to make even more. Evidence of habitual gluttony helps provide the answer. -- Alex Berenson
The scariest thought in the world is that someday I'll wake up and realize I've been sleepwalking through my life: underappreciating the people I love, making the same hurtful mistakes over and over, a slave to neuroses, fear, and the habitual. -- George Saunders
Confession has been my habitual homecoming since I was a child. It is a consolation and a joy, and such joy, our faith teaches us, is meant for everyone. It is our vocation to bring it to as many people as possible. -- Donald Wuerl
I am sure that the sad days and happenings were rare, and that I lived the joyous and careless life of other children; but just because the happy days were so habitual to me they made no impression upon my mind, and I can no longer recall them. -- Pierre Loti
Guilt agonizes over trifles, ignores habitual wrongdoing. -- Mason Cooley
Excellence is the result of habitual integrity. -- Lennie Bennett
Nothing is more graceful than habitual cheerfulness. -- Adam Smith
Where I come from, gettin' visual is habitual. -- GZA
Change your habitual questions and change your destiny! -- Tony Robbins
The habitual living in prosperity is most injurious. -- Publilius Syrus
Never assume that habitual silence means ability in reserve. -- Geoffrey Madan
Fully 95 percent of our behavior, feeling, and response is habitual. -- Maxwell Maltz
The habitual use of profanity is not progressive, just unimaginative. -- Ron Brackin
Virtue is what happens when habitual choices have been wise. -- N. T. Wright
Bad luck is usually transmitted by close proximity to habitual sufferers. -- Irvine Welsh
For that which has become habitual, becomes as it were natural. -- Aristotle
It is the habitual, not the periodical thought that decides your destiny. -- Wallace D. Wattles
The secret to creative freedom is letting go of our habitual certainities. -- Deepak Chopra
When you serve your passions, proficiency gradually takes over and becomes habitual. -- Robert Genn
I certainly wouldn't advocate anyone using drugs on a regular or habitual basis. -- William S. Burroughs
Growth is transcending yourself, your habitual self, which is none other than ego. -- Lester Levenson
Clericalism: the habitual confusion between that which is of Caesar, and that of God. -- Giulio Andreotti
The most shocking act, closely examined, is just a louder version of some habitual gesture. -- Susan Choi
Unless we believe that God renews creation every day, our prayers grow habitual and tedious. -- Baal Shem Tov
It is distraction, not meditation, that becomes habitual; interruption, not continuity; spasmodic, not constant toil. -- Tillie Olsen
People, especially successful people, are habitual creatures. They're organized. This makes them productive - Gus Mitchell -- Vince Flynn
This same habitual blindness to spiritual, substantive dimensions of every significant challenge continues to handicap Hollywood. -- Michael Medved
Gourmandise is an impassioned, rational and habitual preference for all objects that flatter the sense of taste. -- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
My habitual mood of humiliation, self-doubt, forlorn depression, fell damp on the embers of my decaying ire. -- Charlotte Bronte
Life is the art of being well deceived, and to succeed, it must be habitual and uninterrupted. -- Oscar Wilde
Innocence was gone from all our acts. Our habitual state of rebellion became a serious political crime. -- Anais Nin
There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor. -- Thomas Wentworth Higginson
The greatest and saddest defect is not credulity, but an habitual forgetfulness that our science is ignorance. -- Henry David Thoreau
When water gets caught in habitual whirlpools, dig a way out through the bottom of the ocean. -- Rumi
One of the deepest habitual patterns that we have is to feel that now is not enough. -- Pema Chodron
... indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable. -- George Eliot
Fame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes - are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
No sin, no matter how momentarily pleasurable, comforting, or habitual, is worth missing what God has for us. -- Beth Moore
We just have to have the courage to turn against our habitual lifestyle and engage in unconventional living. -- Christopher McCandless
For the habitual truth-teller and truth-seeker, indeed, the whole world has very little liking. He is always unpopular. -- H. L. Mencken
The nation was not founded by habitual groupthinkers. But it stands a fair chance of being destroyed by them. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
Televisions and movies have made many Americans into habitual consumers of synthetic experience-audiovisual fantasies that simply pass the time. -- Karl Albrecht
By renouncing samsara, we renounce our habitual grasping, unhappy minds. And by renouncing samsara, we embrace our potential for enlightenment. -- Thubten Zopa Rinpoche
...the habitual dualist's solution to the problem of dualism: to solve the dilemma by chopping off one of the horns. -- Alan Watts
I have a habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am now leading a posthumous existence. -- John Keats
Simply by changing your habitual vocabulary, you can instantaneously change how you think, how you feel, and how you live. -- Tony Robbins
There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out. -- Samuel Butler
A revolution is sometimes necessary, but if revolutions become habitual the country in which they take place is going down-hill -- Theodore Roosevelt
Photography is a contest between a photographer and the presumptions of approximate and habitual seeing. The contest can be held anywhere ... -- John Szarkowski
Shamanic healing is a journey. It involves stepping out of our habitual roles, our conventional scripts, and improvising a dancing path. -- Gabrielle Roth
A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime. -- Oscar Wilde
The more one has engaged in a particular pattern of thought, the more difficult it becomes to override these habitual patterns. -- Bryant McGill
Each time you stay present with fear and uncertainty, you're letting go of a habitual way of finding security and comfort. -- Pema Chodron
To use the law of attraction to your advantage, make it a habitual way of being, not just a one-time event. -- Rhonda Byrne
There is no such thing as character other than the habitual action, as Mr. Aristotle told us two thousand years ago. -- David Mamet
Every day you have to renew your commitment. Some of the strategies should become habitual over time and not a huge effort. -- Sonja Lyubomirsky
True education is a kind of never ending story "? a matter of continual beginnings, of habitual fresh starts, of persistent newness. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
There are three types of actions : purposeful, habitual, and gratuitous. Characters , to be immediate and apprehensible, must be presented by all three. -- Samuel R. Delany
In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural. -- Sallust
All men feel a habitual gratitude, and something of an honorable bigotry, for the objects which have long continued to please them. -- William Wordsworth
Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins. -- Leo Tolstoy
FIB, n. A lie that has not cut its teeth. An habitual liar's nearest approach to truth: the perigee of his eccentric orbit. -- Ambrose Bierce
Our minds were circumscribed within narrow limits by an habitual belief that it was our duty to be subordinate to the mother country. -- Thomas Jefferson
Artists speak to a different part of us, bypassing the cloudy filter of reason and the fears and prejudices of the habitual mind. -- Wes Nisker
Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts. -- Marcus Aurelius
Mere chance ... alone would never account for so habitual and large an amount of difference as that between varieties of the same species. -- Charles Darwin
Develop accommodating values and habits. People are scared away from you when you have a value system and habitual actions that accommodate them comfortably. -- Israelmore Ayivor
The mind has powers that allow us to go beyond our normal or habitual way of being, and beyond what we think is possible. -- Joseph Jaworski
It is no more dusky in ordinary nights than our mind's habitual atmosphere, and the moonlight is as bright as our most illuminatedmoments are. -- Henry David Thoreau
O Heavenly Father, convert my religion from a name to a principle! Bring all my thoughts and movements into an habitual reference to Thee! -- Thomas Chalmers
It is in rare and scattered instants that beauty smiles even on her adorers, who are reduced for habitual comfort to remembering her past favours. -- George Santayana
We can gradually grow into any condition we desire, provided we first make ourselves in habitual mental attitude the person who corresponds to those conditions. -- Thomas Troward
It takes a while for revelry to turn to reverence, and much repetition of truth to eventual turn young zeal into habitual channels for good. -- Elisabeth Elliot
I notice well that one stray step from the habitual path leads irresistibly into a new direction. Life moves forward, it never reverses its course. -- Franz Grillparzer
Its foolishness to claim that one is faithful towards God, when one is habitual of breaking the trust of those who love and respect him. -- Santosh Thankachan
To have the management of the mind is a great art, and it may be attained in a considerable degree by experience and habitual exercise. -- Samuel Johnson
Fun has to do with habitual activities but then also terrifically novel or unusual ones. It works as a sort of strange milkshake of those concepts. -- Ian Bogost
Whatever you would make habitual, practice it; and if you would not make a thing habitual, do not practice it, but accustom yourself to something else. -- Epictetus
...Mrs. Bostwick's face was heavy and lethargic, without any strength or delicacy, and it bore the deep marks of what must have been a habitual dissatisfaction. -- John Williams
A century from now it will no more occur to a normal person to mate with a person eugenically unfit than to marry a habitual criminal. -- Nikola Tesla
Even happiness itself may become habitual. There is a habit of looking at the bright side of things, and also of looking at the dark side. -- Samuel Smiles
We all know artists who like to collaborate, who like to work as a team. It all kind of depends what your habitual working method is. -- Eric Drooker
Ordinarily we are swept away by habitual momentum and don't interrupt our patterns slightly. When we feel betrayed or disappointed, does it occur to us to practice? -- Pema Chodron
The mind becomes accustomed to things by the habitual sight of them, and neither wonders nor inquires about the reasons for things it sees all the time. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is of unspeakable advantage to possess our minds with an habitual good intention, and to aim all our thoughts, words, and actions at some laudable end. -- Joseph Addison
It's very dangerous to mix up the words natural and habitual. We have been trained to be quite habitual at communicating in ways that are quite unnatural. -- Mahatma Gandhi
But as long as you have some fixed idea or are caught by some habitual way of doing things, you cannot appreciate things in their true sense. -- Shunryu Suzuki
A standard of living is of the nature of habit. ...it acts almost solely to prevent recession from a scale of conspicuous expenditure that has once become habitual. -- Thorstein Veblen
Success is processional. It's the result of a series of small disciplines that lead us into habitual patterns of success that no longer require consistent will or effort. -- Tony Robbins
In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is oncoming a new complex of habit. -- Alfred North Whitehead
Getting up too early is a vice habitual in horned owls, stars, geese, and freight trains. Some hunters acquire it from geese, and some coffee pots from hunters. -- Aldo Leopold
I like the word 'affection' because it signifies something habitual, and we are soon to meet to try whether we have mind enough to keep our hearts warm. -- Michael Kelahan
My only solution for the problem of habitual accidents is to stay in bed all day. Even then, there is always the chance that you will fall out. -- Robert Benchley

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