#habits

Out of my discomforts, which were small enough, grew one thing for which I have all my life been grateful, the formation of fixed habits of work. ↗

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

#enough #fixed #formation #grateful #grew

Weight loss is a sum of all of your habits - not individual ones. ↗

— Helen M. Ryan

#healthy-habits #new-habits #weight-loss #weightloss #change

The game had to be played the same way every day or the pieces would fall to the floor, the board would collapse, and the illusion that you were shaping your own life, that you were in control, would break. ↗

— Kevin Brockmeier

#control #habits #change

If in doubt, keep quiet. Play safe, talk less, and observe. ↗

— Alison Golden

#eating-habits #paleo #paleo-diet #diet

Silk laughed. "You really should try not to let your knife do all your thinking for you. That's the one quality we find least attractive in our Cherek cousins." "And we find this compulsion to make clever remarks which seems to overwhelm our Drasnian brothers now and then almost equally unattractive," Barak told him coolly. ↗

— David Eddings

#humor #problem-solving #equality

I am a Smedry, and we do ridiculous, unexpected, eccentric things like this all the time! Ha-ha! ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#habits #weirdness #family

Bad habits: easy to develop and hard to live with. Good habits: hard to develop and easy to live with. ↗

— Orrin Woodward

#life

The apostle (Paul) says to Timothy, and so he says to every preacher, 'Give thyself unto reading.' The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted; he who will not use the thoughts of other men's brains, proves that he has no brains of his own. Brethren, what is true of ministers is true of all our people ─ you need to read ↗

— C.H. Spurgeon

#spurgeon #men

In a brahmin house where they feed the fire as a god when the fire goes wild and burns the house they splash on it the water of the gutter and the dust of the street, beat their breasts and call the crowd. These men then forget their worship and scold their fire, O lord of the meeting rivers! ↗

— Basava

#rogue-tulpas #men

Oh, people get used to so many things," said Vadesh, "if only they give them selves a chance. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#human-nature #philosophical #robots #thrill #nature