COMPASSION

Affirmation of life is the spiritual act by which man ceases to live thoughtlessly and begins to devote himself to his life
with reverence in order to give it true value.
— Albert Schweitzer

12/26/2011



“The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.”
- Mike Murdock



"Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live."
- Dorothy Thompson







A change in bad habits leads to a change in life.
Jenny Craig

A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.
Richard Whately

Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.
Charles J. Givens

Acting is the most personal of our crafts. The make-up of a human being - his physical, mental and emotional habits - influence his acting to a much greater extent than commonly recognized.
Lee Strasberg

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

And I think of that again as I've written in several of my beauty books, a lot of health comes from the proper eating habits, which are something that - you know, I come from a generation that wasn't - didn't have a lot of food.
Joan Collins

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein

As a reward of their clean living and good habits these great stars have been able to withstand the rigorous test of stamina and physical exertion and have thus successfully extended their most remarkable careers over a period of many strenuous years.
Major Taylor

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old - old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.
Rush Limbaugh

Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.
Holbrook Jackson

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Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.
William Ralph Inge

Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.
Robert Baden-Powell

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

Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.
Agatha Christie

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.
Agatha Christie

Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.
Saint Teresa

Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive.
Catherine Helen Spence

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

Everybody needs a way out of that pain. Many people choose drugs and alcohol. Some people obsessively exercise or develop strange dietary habits, which is what I did. At least it got me toward a path of healthier living.
Mariel Hemingway

Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values.
Arthur M. Schlesinger







Fortunately, the Canadian people in all their habits, are essentially a temperate people.
William Lyon Mackenzie King

Good habits are worth being fanatical about.
John Irving

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
Aristotle

Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.
Ralph W. Sockman

Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.
Edith Wharton

Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you.
Frank Crane

Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous.
Jeremy Taylor

Habits change into character.
Ovid

Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.
W. Somerset Maugham

How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.
Jack Nicklaus

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I am not a politician, and my other habits air good.
Charles Farrar Browne

I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends.
Jose Saramago

I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds.
John James Audubon

I do have odd habits. I check under my bed every night for the bogeyman. That's just a little thing, though.
Tori Spelling

I don't have any bad habbits. They might be bad habits for other people, but they're all right for me.
Eubie Blake

I find it difficult to believe that words have no meaning in themselves, hard as I try. Habits of a lifetime are not lightly thrown aside.
Stuart Chase

I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.
Mick Jagger

I had never done any theater in high school, which actually worked to my benefit. I didn't develop any bad habits.
David James Elliott

I learned to be with myself rather than avoiding myself with limiting habits; I started to be aware of my feelings more, rather than numb them.
Judith Wright

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
Charles Dickens



I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them in the best way I could.
John James Audubon



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