1. Habits are to the soul what blood vessels and veins are to blood, they are the way it flows. ——Bushnell

2. Piety is not an end, but a means. It is the means to achieve the highest cultivation through the purest tranquility of the soul. ——Goethe

3. Habits are the leaders of a person’s thoughts and behaviors. ——Emerson

4. The essence of “special personality” is not the abstract physical nature of a person’s beard and blood, but the social characteristics of a person...——Karl Marx

< p> 5. The second half of a person's life is composed of habits, but his habits are formed in the first half of his life. ——Dostoyevsky

6. Some old people look very cute because their style is elegant and beautiful. Although some young people are beautiful, they are not worthy of praise because they lack graceful cultivation. ——Bacon

7. A gentleman is not ashamed to cultivate, and he is not ashamed to see dirt. ——Xunzi

8. I am good at cultivating the awe-inspiring spirit. ——Mencius

9. Instead of modifying your face, it is better to modify your mind. ——Chinese proverb

10. To judge beauty, one must have a cultivated mind. ——Kant

11. To nourish the mind, don’t be good at having few desires. ——Mencius

12. Improve your body and maintain a reasonable and regular life. This is the material basis for self-cultivation. ——Zhou Enlai

13. A correct mind is the foundation, and self-cultivation is the foundation. ——Sima Guang

14. If you want to be educated, you must understand the most beautiful things that the whole world is talking about and thinking about. ——M. Arnold

15. A gentleman goes against the Tao in order to cultivate virtue. ——Lu Shi Chun Qiu

16. Ah, how happy are the cultivated people! He will feel satisfied and happy even with things that others think are sacrifices and pains; his heart is always jumping for joy, and he has untold joy. ——Chernyshevsky

17. The essence of cultivation is like human character, which ultimately comes down to the issue of moral sentiment. ——Emerson

18. If you don’t cultivate yourself, you will be a villain but a gentleman. ——Ouyang Xiu

19. A good custom is more reliable than the law. ——Euripides

21. The aesthetic sense requires cultural cultivation, and only with the help of cultivation can we understand and discover beauty. ——Hegel

22. The Master is gentle, courteous and thrifty. ——The Analects of Confucius

23. In the affairs of the world, troubles often arise from the slightest moment, but the will and warning come from gradual habits. ——Cheng Hao

24. There is no greater merit than to do away with evil and love good, and no greater sin than to do evil instead of doing good. ——Jia Yi

25. Habit is really a tenacious and huge force that can dominate life. Therefore, people should establish good habits through perfect education since childhood.

——Bacon