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Old habits are strong and jealous. -- Dorothea Brande
Some rules are nothing but old habits that people are afraid to change. -- Therese Anne Fowler
But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits. -- Andre Gide
You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'. -- Wayne Dyer
When we consciously and deliberately develop new and better habits, our self image tends to outgrow the old habits and grow into the new pattern. -- Maxwell Maltz
Change isn't always easy, but with purposeful practice, any old habit can be replaced with a way of being we would recommend to those we love. -- Bill Crawford
We need a repeated discipline, a genuine training, in order to let go of our old habits of mind and to find and sustain a new way of seeing. -- Jack Kornfield
Those old habits don't have to be erased, they just become replaced by a new habit that is more in vibrational harmony with who you are and what you want. -- Esther Hicks
Displaying a bland, even an eerie, disregard for what appeared to be the facts of the situation, he fell back on an old habit of looking ahead to the next defeat. -- Loudon Wainwright III
Reality is ultimately a selective act of perception and interpretation. A shift in our perception and interpretation enables us to break old habits and awaken new possibilities for balance, healing, and transformation. -- David Simon
Bring the mind into sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere. The mind must be emancipated from old habits, prejudices, restrictive thought processes and even ordinary thought itself. -- Bruce Lee
For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written. They'd measure it and pay you 10 cents an inch for your printed copy. -- Charles Kuralt
It's very hard to stop doing things you're used to doing. You almost have to dismantle yourself and scatter it all around and then put a blindfold on and put it back together so that you avoid old habits. -- Tom Waits
You will stumble at time, forget what you want, fall headfirst into your old habits and beliefs. Fear not! Always remember to be patient and loving with yourself and others because that is what God does all the time. -- Iyanla Vanzant
Unless the desire to change remains strong, body and mind tend to return to old, familiar patterns. It takes time-from three to six months-for old habits to become obsolete. By the end of that time, you'll have adapted to a new pattern. In a sense, you'll have found a new way of life. -- Dan Millman
What gives value to travel is fear. It is a fact that, at a certain moment, when we are so far from our own country, we are seized by a vague fear and an instinctive desire to go back to the protection of old habits. I look upon it more as an occasion for testing. -- Albert Camus
We can have skills training in mindfulness so that we are using our attention to perceive something in the present moment. This perception is not so latent by fears or projections into the future, or old habits, and then I can actually stir loving-kindness or compassion in skills training too, which can be sort of provocative, I found. -- Sharon Salzberg
A person who wills to have a good will, already has a good will--in its rudiments. There is solid satisfaction in knowing that the mere desire to get out of an old habit is a material advance upon the condition of submergence in that habit. The longest step toward cleanliness is made when one gains--nothing but dissatisfaction with dirt. -- William Ernest Hocking
Time will break all of the old habits and create new ones for you, and in the process, you will try to handle this immense pain with dignity (because you're that kind of girl). You actually will have to move on and you actually will be fine and that's when he may actually miss how incredible and special you are. -- Taylor Swift
To observe and watch one's own mind is something really interesting. The untrained mind will run and follow its old habit patterns. Because it has not been trained and taught, it will get lost in all kinds of stories and issues. Therefore we have to train our mind. The meditation practice in Buddhism is all about training one's own mind. -- Ajahn Chah
old habits are hard to break, but not impossible! -- Pearl Cleage
Old habits are hard to forget, and old fears are habits. -- Raymond E. Feist
It is necessary to shed old ideas, habits, opinions and even companions sometimes. -- Marlo Morgan
Old habits die hard, I guess. If you dont kick them, they kick you. -- Mel Gibson
In life, new thoughts and ideas always clash with the old world order and habits. -- Hannes Holm
Old habits eat good intentions for lunch. Change your habits so you can change your outcomes. -- Darren Hardy
Self-awareness moves us beyond the old, well-worn pathways in the brain that support fixed, unconscious habits. -- Deepak Chopra
Old rules and habits have to be rejected and dismissed so that something new can be created. -- Michael Cretu
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Breaking old habits and forming new ones always takes time, but it is worth it in the end. -- Joyce Meyer
You cant reach old age by another man's road, my habits protect my life but they would assassinate you -- Mark Twain
Old habits cannot be thrown out the upstairs window. They have to be coaxed downstairs one step at a time. -- Mark Twain
Meditation may also be thought of as a technique by which we diminish the force of old thought habits and develop new ones. -- Dalai Lama
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I am somebody who has never been able to give up '60s habits. I am the inevitable old codger on the dance floor. -- Simon Schama
I think everyone remembers how certain Russian bureaucrats used to work against the Ukrainian opposition; I think it is hard to drop old habits. -- Yulia Tymoshenko
Clutter is not just physical stuff. It's old ideas, toxic relationships and bad habits. Clutter is anything that does not support your better self. -- Eleanor Brown
The truly creative individual stands ready to abandon old habits and to acknowledge that life, particularly his own unique life, is rich with possibilities. -- Frank Baron
A birthday is a good time to begin a new; throwing away the old habits, as you would old clothes, and never putting them again. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
To be perfectly honest the old habits, specifically deadlines, still very much inform what I do. I am brutally disciplined about getting manuscripts in on time. -- Simon Winchester
Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply ingrained attitudes of aversion and preference. -- John Dewey
To destroy abuses is not enough; Habits must also be changed. The windmill has gone, but the wind is still there." ~old man G--- to Monseigneur Bienvenu Myriel -- Victor Hugo
O-o-old habits die hard when you got, when you got a sentimental heart Piece of the puzzle, you're my missing part Oh what can you do with a sentimental heart? -- Zooey Deschanel
I don't always have the best eating habits. I like butter and ice cream. There are days when I should work out and I don't. But it's never too late to change old habits. -- Florence Griffith Joyner

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