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We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
Waiting for Godot
I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.
One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them
To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity
Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments
Nothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature; but all things become so through habit
To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
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On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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