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“Pushing yourself to extremes blows out the cobwebs of trusted habit. It shakes up what you know to be reliably safe and substitutes the miracle of insecurity.”

Knows Habit Safe Miracle Blow Extremes Shakes Insecurity Pushing Substitutes Trusted Push Yourself Cobwebs

Author:Robert Genn

“The desire for bad art is the desire bred of habit: like the smoker's desire for tobacco, more marked by the extreme malaise of denial than by any very strong delight in fruition.”

Art Desire Strong Habit Art Is Delight Extremes Denial Very Strong Tobacco Smokers Fruition Malaise

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Everything was leveled, there were no extremes of joy or sorrow any more but only habit, routine, ancient family names and rites and customs, slow careful old people moving cautiously around furniture that had sat in the same positions for fifty years.”

People Years Moving Joy Names Position Habit Sorrow Ancient Careful Extremes Sat Fifty Customs Routine Old People Furniture Rite Family Name

Book:Anne Tyler: a new collection : three complete novels

Source: Anne Tyler: a new collection : three complete novels

“All empty souls tend to extreme opinion. It is only in those who have built up a rich world of memories and habits of thought that extreme opinions affront the sense of probability. Propositions, for instance, which set all the truth upon one side can only enter rich minds to dislocate and strain, if they can enter at all, and sooner or later the mind expels them by instinct.”

Source: Autobiographies: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats

“Men and women consume one another rapidly in what is called "the act of love," or else settle down to a mild habit of conjugality. We seldom find a mean between these two extremes.”

Men Mean Two Habit Men And Women Extremes Settling Settling Down Acts Of Love Two Extremes

Book:The Plague

Source: The Plague