“Habit is a vain and treacherous goddess. She lets nothing disrupt her rule. She smothers one desire after another: the desire to travel, the desire for a better job or a new love. She stops us from living as we would like, because habit prevents us from asking ourselves whether we continue to enjoy doing what we do.”
― The Little Paris Bookshop
― The Little Paris Bookshop
“Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them. Their fingers, from excessive toil, are too clumsy and tremble too much for that. Actually, the laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day; he cannot afford to sustain the manliest relations to men; his honor would be depreciated in the market. He has no time to be anything but a machine.”
― Walden & Civil Disobedience
― Walden & Civil Disobedience
“Everything is, in any event, fated to disappear. Judged against eternity, how little of what agitates us makes any difference.”
― No Baggage: A Minimalist Tale of Love and Wandering
― No Baggage: A Minimalist Tale of Love and Wandering
“Magic happens when you head out into the unknown with wonder in your right hand and terror in your left.”
― No Baggage: A Minimalist Tale of Love and Wandering
― No Baggage: A Minimalist Tale of Love and Wandering
“We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don't satisfy us. The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted.”
― Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
― Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
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