Pastoral Resources

I'm trying to get in the habit of, you know, picking up a book and learning how to write my feelings down, not my feelings but my thoughts, about things, and hopefully I'll moving toward the writing and directing thing soon.

Make it your habit not to be critical about small things.

In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.

Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.

The expense of a war could be paid in time; but the expense of opium, when once the habit is formed, will only increase with time.

Usually, it is not my habit to address religious issues on the floor. I strongly believe in a person's right to religious freedom, as well as the separation of church and state.

Your desired behavior must become just as much a habit as your undesired behavior was before.

It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.

One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.

Must swear off from swearing. Bad habit.

At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.

People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.

Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted.

Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.

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.

The accent got lost somewhere along the way. I'm a little embarrassed about it. When I arrived in LA I assumed I'd be able to put on the American accent. It proved difficult so I had six months working with a dialect coach and it's become a habit.

We tend to connect bad food and bad habits with romance and sex.

By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.

I had this habit of an academic of answering the question. I should have fobbed it off.

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.