“Objects in motion tend to stay in motion. Find a way to get started in less than two minutes.”

When you fall in love with the process rather than the product, you don’t have to wait to give yourself permission to be happy. You can be satisfied anytime your system is running.

You need to know who you want to be.

You do it because it’s who you are and it feels good to be you. The more a habit becomes part of your life, the less you need outside encouragement to follow through.

The problem with a goals-first mentality is that you’re continually putting happiness off until the next milestone.

Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become. No single instance will transform your beliefs, but as the votes build up, so does the evidence of your new identity.

In short: genes do not determine your destiny. They determine your areas of opportunity.

We all deal with setbacks but in the long run, the quality of our lives often depends on the quality of our habits

You don’t have to be the victim of your environment. You can also be the architect of it.

Good habits make time your ally. Bad habits make time your enemy.

Habits reduce cognitive load and free up mental capacity, so you can allocate your attention to other tasks.

The most practical way to change who you are is to change what you do.

Your culture sets your expectation for what is normal. Surround yourself with people who have the habits you want to have yourself.

Goals are good for setting a direction, but systems are best for making progress.

Some people spend their entire lives waiting for the time to be right to make an improvement.

You don’t have to build the habits everyone tells you to build. Choose the habit that best suits you, not the one that is most popular.

Habits are like the atoms of our lives. Each one is a fundamental unit that contributes to your overall improvement.

For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.

Without any motion or movement, there is no life.

Without any motion or movement, there is no life.

Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.

Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.

We see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible.

Sex is an emotion in motion.

Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.