Our volitional habits depend, then, first, on what the stock of ideas is which we have; and, second, on the habitual coupling of the several ideas with action or inaction respectively.
We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.
Your life today is a result of your thinking yesterday. Your life tomorrow will be determined by what you think today.
The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
Dispositions of the mind, like limbs of the body, acquire strength by exercise.
As he thinks, so he is; as he continues to think, so he remains.
Healthy thinking is a habit, just like neurotic thinking is a habit.
I think I have a heavily compartmentalized brain, which means that certain routines are simply running without me realizing it.
We do learn a thing or two from art. It may not be the one-to-one instruction of a moral lesson or the rote learning of a grammatical rule or mathematical concept. But the habits of mind art cultivates are important.
Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.
We need to habituate better thinking to appreciate more of your day because that has a neurological correlate.
The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones.
