"To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring."

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

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"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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"If I tell you another seven hundred times, maybe one of these days you might turn your clothes right side out when you put them in the hamper, eh?"

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

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"Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty."

Jean de la Bruyere, French Philosopher

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Adlai E. Stevenson, American Politician

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"Bad habits are demons that often push us into isolation because they know that in our loneliness they stand little chance of being overcome."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"I know that trying to begin a new habit may be uncomfortable, inconvenient, or challenging. However, when the goal is to feel terrific, isn't it worth your consideration?"

Susan C. Young, American Author

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"An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

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"We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table."

Patrick White, Australian Author

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

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"Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves."

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"Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers."

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"The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility."

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

"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."

"If I tell you another seven hundred times, maybe one of these days you might turn your clothes right side out when you put them in the hamper, eh?"

"Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty."

"Laws are never as effective as habits."

"Bad habits are demons that often push us into isolation because they know that in our loneliness they stand little chance of being overcome."

"I know that trying to begin a new habit may be uncomfortable, inconvenient, or challenging. However, when the goal is to feel terrific, isn't it worth your consideration?"

"An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones."

"We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves."

"I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table."

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."

"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."

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

"Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves."

"Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers."

"The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility."

"Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in."

"Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?"