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“We have the bad habit, some of us, of looking back to a time - almost any time will do - when society was stable and orderly, family ties stronger and deeper, love more lasting and faithful, and so on. Let me be your Cassandra prophesying after the fact, and a long study of the documents in the case: it was never true, that is, no truer than it is now.”

Source: Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings

“Habit is stronger than nature. [Lat., Consuetudo natura potentior est.]”

Author:Quintus Curtius Rufus

“Guard you thoughts as you would your wallet. Habit is stronger than reason.”

Reason Habit Stronger Wallets

Author:George Santayana

“Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.”

Thinking Love Life Should Doe Soul Common Environment Habit Gratitude Mindfulness Stronger Blame Determine Lovely Surroundings Lovely Life

Author:William James

“Ah, love may be strong, but a habit is stronger, And I knew when I loved by the way I behaved.”

Way May Strong Habit Stronger

Book:The Last Unicorn

Source: The Last Unicorn

“He... was attached by ties stronger than reason could break -- chains, forged by habit, which it would be cruel to attempt to loosen.”

Reason Would Be Break Habit Stronger Chains Ties Forged

Book:The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“What is stronger in us — passion or habit? Or are all the violent impulses, all the whirl of our desires and turbulent passions, only the consequence of our ardent age, and is it only through youth that they seem deep and shattering?”

Seems Age Desire Passion Youth Habit Consequence Stronger Violent Impulse Ardent Shattering

Book:The Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogol

Source: The Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogol