Old Habits Quotes

• Old habits cannot be thrown out the upstairs window. They have to be coaxed downstairs one step at a time.

  Mark Twain

  Steps, Window, One Step At A Time

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• Some rules are nothing but old habits that people are afraid to change.

  Therese Anne Fowler

  People, Habit

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• The problem is that your brain can't tell the difference between bad and good habits, and so if you have a bad one, it's always lurking there, waiting for the right cues and rewards.

  Charles Duhigg

  Differences, Waiting, Brain

  Charles Duhigg (2012). “The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change”, p.20, Random House

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• You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Motivational, Comforting

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Staying on the Path: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.37, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If you dress a new something in old habits, it’s easier for the public to accept it.

  Charles Duhigg

  Dresses, Accepting, Easier

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• Old habits are strong and jealous.

  Dorothea Brande

  Strong, Jealous, Habit

  Dorothea Brande (2016). “Becoming a Writer”, p.26, Lulu.com

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• Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you

  Elbert Hubbard

  Advice, Should, Masters

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• As you learn to consciously observe the transformation process, you will watch yourself repeating a lot of old patterns long after you seemingly know better. Spiritually and intellectually, you realize there is another way, but emotionally you are still clinging to the old habits. This is a difficult time. Try to be patient and compassionate with yourself. When you recognize the futility of an old pattern so clearly, it's about to change! A short time later, you will suddenly begin to respond differently, in a more positive way.

  Shakti Gawain

  Long, Trying, Watches

  Shakti Gawain (2015). “The Shakti Gawain Essentials: 3 Books in 1: Creative Visualization, Living in the Light & Developing Intuition”, p.162, Mango Media Inc.

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• It is hard to let old beliefs go. They are familiar. We are comfortable with them and have spent years building systems and developing habits that depend on them. Like a man who has worn eyeglasses so long that he forgets he has them on, we forget that the world looks to us the way it does because we have become used to seeing it that way through a particular set of lenses. Today, however, we need new lenses. And we need to throw the old ones away.

  Kenichi Ohmae

  Life, Change, Men

  Kenichi Ohmae (1994). “The borderless world: power and strategy in the global marketplace”

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• As we follow a genuine path of practice, our sufferings may seem to increase because we no longer hide from them or from ourselves. When we do not follow the old habits of fantasy and escape, we are left facing the actual problems and contradictions of our life.

  Jack Kornfield

  Practice, Suffering, May

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• Reality is ultimately a selective act of perception and interpretation. A shift in our perception and interpretation enables us to break old habits and awaken new possibilities for balance, healing, and transformation.

  David Simon

  Healing, Reality, Perception

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• Falling is scary but good practice for life. We must fall. In love. Out of love. Into new experiences. Out of old habits. Deeper and further into ourselves. We must fall, life is falling over forward. The only choice we have is how we let go.

  Troian Bellisario

  Letting Go, Falling In Love, New Experiences

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• It's very hard to stop doing things you're used to doing. You almost have to dismantle yourself and scatter it all around and then put a blindfold on and put it back together so that you avoid old habits.

  Tom Waits

  Together, Doing You, Used

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• Those old habits don't have to be erased, they just become replaced by a new habit that is more in vibrational harmony with who you are and what you want.

  Esther Hicks

  Want, Harmony, New Habits

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• Change isn't always easy, but with purposeful practice, any old habit can be replaced with a way of being we would recommend to those we love.

  Bill Crawford

  Practice, Way, Easy

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• Old habits are hard to forget, and old fears are habits.

  Raymond E. Feist

  Forget, Habit, Hard

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• When we consciously and deliberately develop new and better habits, our self image tends to outgrow the old habits and grow into the new pattern.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Self, Patterns, Grows

  Maxwell Maltz (2016). “Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life”, p.77, Penguin

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• Just try walking very slowly, and you will be surprised - a new quality of awareness starts happening in the body. Eat slowly, and you will be surprised - there is great relaxation. Do everything slowly... just to change the old pattern, just to come out of old habits.

  Rajneesh

  Relaxation, Trying, Quality

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• For all my good intentions, there are days when things go wrong or I fall into old habits. When things are not going well, when I'm grumpy or mad, I'll realize that I've not been paying attention to my soul and I've not been following my best routine.

  Robert Fulghum

  Fall, Mad, Soul

  "Handbook for the Soul". Book edited by Benjamin Shield and Richard Carlson, 1995.

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• Then one day, we’ll put the reward in the old place, and put in the rat, and, by golloy, the old habit will rememerge right away. habits never really disappear. They’re encoded into the sturctures of our brain, and that’s a huge advantage for us, because it would be awful if we had to relearn how to drive after every vacation. The problem is that your brain can’t tell the difference between bad and good habits, and so if you have a bad one, it’s always lurking there, waiting for the right cues and rewards.

  Charles Duhigg

  Vacation, Differences, Waiting

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• I don't always have the best eating habits. I like butter and ice cream. There are days when I should work out and I don't. But it's never too late to change old habits.

  Florence Griffith Joyner

  Ice Cream, Work Out, Too Late

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• You will stumble at time, forget what you want, fall headfirst into your old habits and beliefs. Fear not! Always remember to be patient and loving with yourself and others because that is what God does all the time.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Fall, Doe, Want

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Mar 26, 2017

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• Everything seems fine until you're about 40. Then something is definitely beginning to go wrong. And you look in the mirror with your old habit of thinking, 'While I accept that everyone grows old and dies, it's a funny thing, but I'm an exception to that rule.

  Martin Amis

  Thinking, Mirrors, Funny Things

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• To understand a new idea, break an old habit.

  Jean Toomer

  Inspirational, Ideas, Innovation

  Jean Toomer (2003). “The Uncollected Works of American Author Jean Toomer, 1894-1967”, Edwin Mellen Press

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• I think everyone remembers how certain Russian bureaucrats used to work against the Ukrainian opposition; I think it is hard to drop old habits.

  Yulia Tymoshenko

  Thinking, Remember, Used

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