“The "hairy quadruped furnished with a tail and, pointed ears, probably arboreal in his habits," this good fellow carried hidden in his nature, apparently, something destined to develop into a necessity for humane letters.” ScienceEvolutionHabitLettersEarsFellowsTailsDestinedHumane Book:Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)
“Ultimate peace begins within; when we find peace within there will be no more conflict, no more occasion for war. If this is the peace you seek, purify your body by sensible living habits, purify your mind by expelling all negative thoughts, purify your motives by casting out any ideas of greed or self-striving and by seeking to serve you fellow human beings, purify your desires by eliminating all wishes for material possessions or self-glorification and by desiring to know and do God's will for you. Inspire others to do likewise.” IfsKnowsMindHumansIdeasWarSelfBodyDesireWishHuman BeingsInspireMaterialsHabitConflictNegativeUltimateFellowsStriveGreedSeekingPossessionYour BodyGods WillOccasionsMotiveSensibleCastingFinding PeaceNegative ThoughtsEliminatingInspire OthersMaterial PossessionsPeace WithinGlorificationSelf Glorification Author:Peace Pilgrim
“One of the most melancholy consequences of this habit of deferring to other nations, and to other systems, is the fact that it causes us to undervalue the high blessings we so peculiarly enjoy; to render us ungrateful towards God, and to make us unjust to our fellow men, by throwing obstacles in their progress towards liberty.” MenFactsNationsCausesEnjoyLibertyProgressHabitBlessingConsequenceFellowsObstaclesMelancholyThrowingUnjustFellow ManUngrateful Author:James F. Cooper
“Apart from selfish reasons, such as fear of punishments, fear of blame, of dishonour, etc, there remains only two motives that can stop (or prevent, "empâecher", Fr.) men from acting badly; the natural sense of commiseration (or "sympathy", - "commisération", Fr.) for one's fellow men - compassion, and the influence of education, by association of ideas ("par l'association d'idées", Fr.) - habit.” MenTwoIdeasReasonNaturalActingCompassionInfluenceHabitFellowsBlameRemainsSelfishPunishmentMotiveEtcAssociationFellow ManRationsDishonourSelfish ReasonsActing Badly Author:African Spir
“[T]he unsympathetic assessments we make of others are usually the result of nothing more sinister than our habit of looking at them in the wrong way, through lenses clouded by distraction, exhaustion and fear, which blind us to the fact that they are really, despite a thousand differences, just altered versions of ourselves: fellow fragile, uncertain, flawed beings likewise craving love and in urgent need of forgiveness.” WayNeedsFactsDifferencesResultsHabitThousandFellowsBlindVersionsDespiteDistractionFragileUncertainLensesCravingFlawedUrgentAlteredExhaustionAssessmentWrong WaySinisterCloudedUnsympathetic Author:Alain de Botton
“The young man who addresses himself in stern earnest to organizing his life-his habits, his associations, his reading, his study, his work-stands far more chance of rising to a position affording him opportunity to exercise his organizing abilities than the fellow who dawdles along without chart or compass, without plan or purpose, without self-improvement and self-discipline.” MenSelfYoungPurposeReadingOpportunityChanceAbilityStudyPlansPositionHabitDisciplineExerciseSelf ImprovementOrganizationFellowsImprovementYoung ManRisingAddressesAssociationSelf DisciplineEarnestCompassAffording Author:B. C. Forbes
“I've been a straight man for so many years that from force of habit I repeat everything. I went out fishing with a fellow the other day and he fell overboard. He yelled, Help! Help! Help! so I said, Help? Help? Help? And while I was waiting for him to get his laugh, he drowned.” MenYearsSaidHelpingForceWaitingLaughingHabitFellowsRepeatsFishingOverboard Author:George Burns
“There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow-men.” IfsMenFeelingsIndividualCompassionHabitMoralityEatingCapableDirectFellowsIndependenceDoctrineFellow ManEating OutFellow Feeling Book:Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)