"Habit is a great deadener."

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"Habit is the nursery of errors."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth."

Mignon McLaughlin, American Journalist

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"The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon."

Anthony Burgess, English Novelist

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"Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity."

Saint Augustine, Algerian Saint

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"Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits."

Mark Twain, American Author

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"Routines are normal, natural, healthy things. Most of us take a shower and brush our teeth every day. That is a good routine. Spiritual disciplines are routines. That is a good thing. But once routines become routine you need to change your routine."

Mark Batterson, American Author

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"Laws are never as effective as habits."

Adlai E. Stevenson, American Politician

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"Habit is habit and not to be thrown out of the window by any man but coaxed downstairs a step at a time."

Mark Twain, American Author

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"Continually finding excuses for taking a small glass of brandy and water."

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"Birth was the death of him."

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"Do we mean love, when we say love?"

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"We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?"

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"If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love."

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"Ada: And why life? (Pause.) Why life, Henry? (Pause.) Is there anyone about?Henry: Not a living soul.Ada: I thought as much. (Pause.) When we longed to have it to ourselves there was always someone. Now that it does not matter the place is deserted."

Philosophy

"In order to be company he must display a certain mental activity. But it need not be of a high order. Indeed it might be argued the lower the better. Up to a point. The lower the order of mental activity the better the company. Up to a point."

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"Incontinent the void. The zenith. Evening again. When not night it will be evening. Death again of deathless day. On one hand embers. On the other ashes. Day without end won and lost. Unseen."

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"I asked her to look at me and after a few moments - (pause) - after a few moments she did, but the eyes just slits, because of the glare I bent over her to get them in the shadow and they opened. (Pause. Low) Let me in."

Awareness

"You are on your back at the foot of an aspen. In its trembling shade. She at right angles propped on her elbows head between her hands. Your eyes opened and closed have looked in hers looking in yours. In your dark you look in them again. Still. You feel on your face the fringe of her long black hair stirring in the still air. Within the tent of hair your faces are hidden from view. She murmurs, Listen to the leaves. Eyes in each other's eyes you listen to the leaves. In their trembling shade."

Mindfulness

"I happened to look up and there it was. All over and done with, at last. I sat on for a few moments with the ball in my hand and the dog yelping and pawing at me. (Pause.) Moments. Her moments, my moments (Pause.) The dog's moments."

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