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"It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way."
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"It's not what we do once-it's what we do once a day, day in and day out, every day that brings lasting change into our lives."

"The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon."

"Routines are normal, natural, healthy things. Most of us take a shower and brush our teeth every day. That is a good routine. Spiritual disciplines are routines. That is a good thing. But once routines become routine you need to change your routine."

"I am not a politician, and my other habits air good."

"I'm not a politician and my other habits are good."

"Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities."

"A habit is something you can do without thinking - which is why most of us have so many of them."
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"Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death."


"If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself."


"The fascist authoritarianism, characterized by sado - masochism and destructiveness, had a function which is comparable psychologically to a neurotic symptom - namely, fascism compensated for powerlessness and individual isolation and protected the individual from anxiety - creating situations. If one compare fascism to a neurotic symptom, it can be said that fascism is a neurotic form of community."


"It will no doubt be agreed that there are multitudes of these defiant, aggressive types in our culture. But they do not frequent psychoanalysts' offices because our competitive culture (in which, to a considerable extent, the individual who can aggressively exploit others without conscious guilt feeling is 'succesful') supports and 'cushions' them to a greater extent than the opposite types. It is generally the culturally 'weak' individuals who get to the psychoanalyst; for in cultural terms they have the 'neurosis' and the succesfully agressive person does not."


"The battle with the gods thus hinges on our own mortality! Creativity is a yearning for immortality."


"Life is not a matter for simple optimism - for there is evil, nor for mere pessimism - for there is good. The possibility for good in the face of evil is what gives life tragic meaning."


"If the will remains in protest it stays dependent on that which it is protesting against."
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