Subconscious Habits Quotes

They say the chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. The chains you put around yourself now have enormous consequences as you go through life.

When I write, I tend to twist my hair. Something for my small mind to do, I guess.

I have a lot of glass in my house, and I remember saying as a joke once that I clean my stuff with Windex while my friends are over, but then I found myself actually doing that the other day. It's horrible.

...smoking is just a habit. 'Tolstoy', she said, mentioning someone I hadn't met, 'says that just as much pleasure can be got from twirling the fingers'. My impulse was to tell her Tolstoy was off his onion, but I choked down the heated words. For all I know, the man might be a bosom pal of hers and she might resent criticism of him, however justified.

It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.

Habit is a second nature, and what was at first pleasure, is next necessity.

There's stuff that everybody does that they don't know they do.

There is a great amount of poetry in unconscious fastidiousness.

In general it may be said that the things which we take for granted without inquiry or reflection are just the things which determine our conscious thinking and decide our conclusions. And these habitudes which lie below the level of reflection are just those which have been formed in the constant give and take of relationship with others.