“Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself”
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“Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself”
“The automobile changed our dress, manners, social customs, vacation habits, the shape of our cities, consumer purchasing patterns, common tastes and positions in intercourse”
“Habit with its iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day”
“Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life”
“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”
“Practice conquers the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule.”
“New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common”
“Habits wear more constantly and with greatest force than reason, which, when we have most need of it, is seldom fairly consulted, and more rarely obeyed”
“It is not well to make great changes in old age”
“In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.”
“The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.”
“There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.”