Rajneesh Quotes

I stopped smoking. But my personality I still have. I get up in the morning, and not everybody loves me, so if you want to call that a bad habit, there's that.

I know I should stop smoking, but it scares me. I mean, what would I turn to next?

We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.

Mr Howard Saxby, literary agent, was knitting a sock. He knitted a good deal, he would tell you if you asked him, to keep himself from smoking, adding that he also smoked a good deal to keep himself from knitting.

I used to give up writing like some people would give up smoking.

Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.

You pass a program and get people dependent on it, making it brutal to get rid of. The key is not letting it get started.

Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.

I do not feel called upon to try to reform any person over 25 years of age because by that time the habit has been formed. Then it is only a question of the strength of will or mind of the smoker which will enable him to stop. He knows the injurious effects and controls his own destiny.

The effect of the [opium prohibition] edict was electrical. Farmers stopped cultivation with little resistance. Smokers abandoned the habit by millions; it became unfashionable to smoke in public; and the young were constrained not to acquire the habit…

Smoking too much makes me nervous. Must lasso my natural tendency to acquire such habits. Holding heavy cigar constantly in my mouth has deformed my upper lip, it has a sort of Havana curl.

The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act we strengthen the strand, add to it another filament, until it becomes a great cable and binds us irrevocably thought and act.

I've been trying to quit smoking weed and it's really hard quitting pot. It was actually easier to become a vegetarian because your friends never show up at your house with a sack of beef.

Old habits die hard, I guess. If you dont kick them, they kick you.

Unless I specifically inform you otherwise, I'm always smoking another cigarette.

I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end.

I've got two vices: cigarettes and taters.

Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.

Stopping smoking was most dramatic for me. After 23 years, I picked up a cigarette one day and didn't know why I was doing it. Smoking was no longer in alignment with what I had intended to experience of myself.

Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.

So the question really is, Why doesn't that pain make you say, I won't do it again? When the pain is so bad that you have to say that, but you don't.

In truth, the only difference between those who have failed and those who have succeeded lies in the difference of their habits. Good habits are the key to all success. Bad habits are the unlocked door to failure. Thus, the first law I will obey, which precedeth all others is - I will form good habits and become their slave.

The cigarettes you light one after another won’t help you forget her.

If people are not smoking, they'll probably be drinking more.