Nonyelum Martins Quotes & Sayings

How do habits change? There is, unfortunately, no specific set of steps guaranteed to work for every person. We know that a habit cannot be eradicated - it must, instead, be replaced. And we know that habits are most malleable when the Golden Rule of habit change is applied: If we keep the same cue and the same reward, a new routine can be inserted. But that's not enough. For a habit to stay changed, people must believe change is possible. And most often, that belief only emerges with the help of a group. — Charles Duhigg

Before all hope died I used to have this stupid dream that shit could be saved, that we would be in bed together like the old times, with the fan on, the smoke from our weed drifting above us, and I'd finally try to say the words that could have saved us. — Junot Diaz

It is a common fallacy to believe that the law of large numbers acts as a force endowed with memory seeking to return to the original state, and many wrong conclusions have been drawn from this assumption. — William Feller

There are absolutely no high-maintenance items in my house of any kind. Plants, pets or husbands. — Carolyn Porco

For a man cannot change, that is to say become another person, while he continues to obey the dictates of the self which he has ceased to be. — Marcel Proust

When you're lonely and blacking out in strange places, you let other lonely people do what they want to you. You call it free love. — Melissa Broder

Wealth is walking into any bookshop and buying any book you want without looking at the price tag. — John Waters

One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.
— Sidney Howard

It would be like the films I've seen where wardens would decide to be in a jail cell for a week, to get a sense of what it would be like to be a prisoner. — Gregory Hines