Gautama Buddha Quotes
If you're respectful by habit, constantly honoring the worthy, four things increase: long life, beauty, happiness, strength.
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Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
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When the mind has once formed the habit of holding cheerful, happy, prosperous pictures, it will not be easy to form the opposite habit.
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You must acquire the habits and skills of managing a small amount of money before you can have a large amount. Remember, we are creatures of habit and, therefore, the habit of managing your money is more important than the amount.
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There is freedom in forgiveness, and it's not that hard to do once you get into the habit.
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
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Clothes are a kind of uniform. A nun's habit, a surgeon's scrubs, a cop's uniform. People often say that when they put on a certain uniform, they actually think of themselves differently.
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The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
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I think there has been this really bad habit of environmentalists being insufferably smug, where they are sort of saying, 'This is the issue that beats all other issues,' or, 'Your issue doesn't matter because nothing matters if the earth is fried.'
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I'm not very good at vacationing or relaxing or planning any of that for myself. So I'm in the habit of piggy-backing off of gigs and deciding to stay an extra day.
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Kelly has a rather bad habit of interrupting.
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Every time I would open my mouth to sing, everybody was paying attention to me. It became a habit.
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Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.
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Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.
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Dating co-stars is natural. When you're working with someone, it's habit.
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I take a ridiculous pleasure in what I eat and drink. It come partly from being a bachelor, but mostly from a habit of taking a lot of trouble over details. It's very pernickety and oldmaidish really, but then when I'm working I generally have to eat my meals alone and it makes them more interesting when one takes trouble.
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So every spirit, as it is most pure,And hath in it the more of heavenly light,So it the fairer bodie doth procureTo habit in, and it more fairely dightWith cheerful grace and amiable sight:For of the soule the bodie forme doth take; For the soule is forme, and doth the bodie make.
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The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will be there to support you when all other resources are gone. It will be present to you when the energies of your body have fallen away from you. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
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Sartre observed that he had never felt so free as during the German occupation when (as a member of the French resistance) he was in constant danger of being arrested and shot. Could there be a more conclusive proof that human beings are freer than they realize, and that their freedom is eroded by habit and laziness?
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We don’t go further than what Marx called the exchange value of the actual object- we don’t think about the relations that that object embodies- and were important to the production of that object, whether it’s our food or our clothes or our iPads or all the materials we use to acquire an education at an institution like this. That would really be revolutionary to develop a habit of imagining the human relations and non-human relations behind all of the objects that constitute our environment.
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Our everyday lives exist with comedy and tragedy next to each other.
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Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents; and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?
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When we classify an issue as a 'shield issue' it is usually because we feel that someone else occupies the high ground on that issue. We feel we can't win on that issue and so we adopt a defensive posture.
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My fiction has been influenced by the visual arts, though not in obvious ways, it seems to me. I don't offer tremendous amounts of visual information in my work.
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If you're respectful by habit, constantly honoring the worthy, four things increase: long life, beauty, happiness, strength.
