Quotes About Habitus

#1. How distressing to stumble on a dominant social habitus, just when one was convinced of one's own uniqueness in the matter!

Muriel Barbery

#2. Justice is a habit (habitus), whereby a man renders to each one his due with constant and perpetual will.

Josef Pieper

#3. Courage is like - it's a habitus, a habit, a virtue: You get it by courageous acts. It's like you learn to swim by swimming. You learn courage by couraging.

Brene Brown

#4. POPPY (on her mother not breastfeeding her during infancy): If you had breastfed me, it might have increased my IQ, and I'd have a lot of pressure to succeed. My average IQ means I can simply coast through life, so thank you.

Bijou Hunter

#5. In insisting that personal habit and political action be one and the same, absolutist moralizing limits the possibilities of both.

Heather Paxson

#6. Death is Nature's expert advice to get plenty of Life.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#7. As in cooking, living requires that you taste, taste, taste as you go along.

Kathleen Flinn

#8. You are the sum total of the people you meet and interact with in the world. Whether it's your family, peers, or co-workers, the opportunities you have and the things that you learn all come through doors that other people open for you. (205)

Tanner Colby

#9. How very kind of her, ' I said. 'I must remember to send her a card.'
I'd send her a card alright. It would be the Ace of Spades, and I'd mail it anonymously from somewhere other than Bishop's Lacey.

Alan Bradley

#10. There's a theory that when two people form a relationship, they form a third spiritual entity. When the relationship dies, that entity dies. Grief is a completely natural response, and it's almost impossible to move on if you don't allow yourself to experience it.

Lani Diane Rich

#11. We make choices and are in turn made by them.

Sheena Iyengar

#12. I had so much fear of blood, and the first thing I did was to cut myself to see what happens. That's the only way to rebuild yourself.

Marina Abramovic

#13. The process of truly learning is laborious, monotonous, and at times down right bitter and boring. Therefore, obtaining a truly higher education will require of you a determined mind and a will to stick and stay. In short, it will take discipline. But in the end, it will be worth it all.

Daniel Whyte III

#14. Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#15. April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.

Mark Twain

#16. Sperm is a bandit in its pure state.

Emile M. Cioran

#17. I'm one of the cliches that has grown up.

Charles Olson

#18. I wanted to be curious and smart and unappeasable until I got a sentence to mean exactly what I ordered it to mean.

Pat Conroy

#19. I don't do my own stunts, but I do my own fighting. I don't consider fighting to be a stunt.

Liam Neeson