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"Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities."
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"Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame."
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Personal Development

"Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible."
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"Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits."
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"Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state."
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"If I tell you another seven hundred times, maybe one of these days you might turn your clothes right side out when you put them in the hamper, eh?"
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"Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty."
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"Laws are never as effective as habits."
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"Bad habits are demons that often push us into isolation because they know that in our loneliness they stand little chance of being overcome."
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"I know that trying to begin a new habit may be uncomfortable, inconvenient, or challenging. However, when the goal is to feel terrific, isn't it worth your consideration?"
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"An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones."
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"A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor."
Death

"Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of great sculpture."
Wisdom

"Meanwhile, the self can stand in the way of the Not-Self, interfering with the free flow of spiritual grace, this maintaining the self in a state of blindness, and also with the flow of animal grace, which leads to the impairment of natural functions and, in the long run, of the slower processes called structure. For each individual human being, the main practical problems are these: How can I prevent my ego from eclipsing the inner light, synteresis, scintilla animae, and so perpetuating the state of unregenerate illusion and blindness? And these practical problems remain unchallenged, even if we abandon the notion of an entelechy or physiological intelligencer, of an atman or pneuma and think, instead, in terms [of] systems..."
Spiritual

"And the two essential and indispensable things are first of all intelligence in the right most sense of that word and goodwill or the old fashion word charity/love, I mean these two things have to go hand in hand. Intelligence and knowledge without charity or goodwill would perhaps be inhuman and goodwill or charity undirected by intelligence or knowledge would be either impotent or misguided, the two have to go together."
Philosophy

"He woke once more to external reality, looked round him, knew what he saw- knewit, with a sinking sense of horror and disgust, for the recurrent deliriumof his days and nights, the nightmare of swarming indistinguishable sameness."
Reality

"But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what's going on in his heart and mind."
Perspective

"Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held."
Nation

"Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions."
Morality

"Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs."
Intelligence

"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history."
History
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