Source: The Imitation of Christ
“You'd think that in a fight, NOT MOVING would be a bad habit!”
Variant: Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs one step at a time.
[Swami Aseshananda, Glimpses of a Great Soul; a Portrait of Swami Saradananda, 43]
The Saviors of God (1923)
Context: Someone within me is struggling to lift a great weight, to cast off the mind and flesh by overcoming habit, laziness, necessity.
I do not know from where he comes or where he goes. I clutch at his onward march in my ephemeral breast, I listen to his panting struggle, I shudder when I touch him.
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
“How use doth breed a habit in a man!”
Valentine, Act V, scene iv.
The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1590–1)
“Man is made of ordinary things, and habit is his nurse.”
Act I, sc. iv
Wallenstein (1798), Part II - Wallensteins Tod (The Death of Wallenstein)
“It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.”
Source: The Big Sleep (1939), Chapter 6
Context: The registration read: Carmen Sternwood, 3765 Alta Brea Crescent, West Hollywood. I went back to my car again and sat and sat. The top dripped on my knees and my stomach burned from the whiskey. No more cars came up the hill. No lights went on in the house before which I was parked. It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.
