"Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us."

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"Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us."

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"How use doth breed a habit in a man!"

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Habit, Today, Power, Truth, Wisdom

"Even the most fickle are faithful to a few bad habits."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

Habit, Habits

"Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

Habit, Being

"I also smoked two cigarettes, which was pretty good considering I could have smoked five if I'd really tried."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

Habit, Smoking, Control, Choice

"90% of what we do daily is not what we think, it's just driven by our desires and not potentials."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

Habit, Desire, Daily, Life, Potential

"Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

Habit, Habits, Living

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

Mark Twain, American Author

Habit, People, Habits, Needs, Nothing

"Usually, it is not my habit to address religious issues on the floor. I strongly believe in a person's right to religious freedom, as well as the separation of church and state."

Alcee Hastings, American Politician

Habit, Church, Freedom, Religious

"Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state."

William James, American Philosopher

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"You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life."

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"Nothing proves that we are more than nothing."

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"To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy."

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"Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves."

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"To act is to anchor in the imminent future."

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"What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you - what a revelation."

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"How use doth breed a habit in a man!"

"Even the most fickle are faithful to a few bad habits."

"Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame."

"The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions."

"I also smoked two cigarettes, which was pretty good considering I could have smoked five if I'd really tried."

"90% of what we do daily is not what we think, it's just driven by our desires and not potentials."

"Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible."

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

"Usually, it is not my habit to address religious issues on the floor. I strongly believe in a person's right to religious freedom, as well as the separation of church and state."

"Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state."

Explore more quotes by Emile M. Cioran

"You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life."

"Nothing proves that we are more than nothing."

"To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy."

"Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea."

"Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas."

"Under each formula lies a corpse."

"The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary."

"Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves."

"To act is to anchor in the imminent future."

"What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you - what a revelation."