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"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
— Aristotle

tags: habit, inspirational, knowledge

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"Every habit he's ever had is still there in his body, lying dormant like flowers in the desert. Given the right conditions, all his old addictions would burst into full and luxuriant bloom."
— Margaret Atwood

tags: addiction, habit

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"We first make our habits, then our habits make us."
— John Dryden

tags: adaptation, change, habit, self-improvement

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"One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them."
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

tags: habit

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"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act, but a habit."
— Aristotle

tags: habit, self-improvement

1 person liked it

"The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broke
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— Samuel Johnson

tags: habit

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"Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time."
— Mark Twain

tags: habit, recovery

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