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“The soil of friendship is worn out with constant use. Habit may still attach us to each other, but we feel ourselves fettered by it. Old friends might be compared to old married people without the tie of children.”

People Feels May Children Stills Use Might Friendship Habit Married Constant Ties Soil Worn Old Friends Worn Out

Book:The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt

Source: The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt

“Something dies in us every time we change. To make space for the true, familiar well-worn habits must give way.”

Way Giving Wells Time Dies Change Space Habit Familiar Worn

Author:Arthur Zajonc

“It was the peculiar artifice of Habit not to suffer her power to be felt at first. Those whom she led, she had the address of appearing only to attend, but was continually doubling her chains upon her companions; which were so slender in themselves, and so silently fastened, that while the attention was engaged by other objects, they were not easily perceived. Each link grew tighter as it had been longer worn; and when by continual additions they became so heavy as to be felt, they were very frequently too strong to be broken.”

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.: D., with an Essay on His Life and Genius

“I hope I need not confess that a large part of my stock in trade consists of platitudes rescued from the cobwebbed shelves of yesterday... This borrowing and refurbishing of shop-worn goods, as a matter of fact, is the invariable habit of traders in ideas, at all times and everywhere. It is not, however, that all the conceivable human notions have been thought out; it is simply, to be quite honest, that the sort of men who volunteer to think out new ones seldom, if ever, have wind enough for a full day's work.”

Source: In Defense of Women: Human Sexuality

“Self-awareness moves us beyond the old, well-worn pathways in the brain that support fixed, unconscious habits.”

Wells Self Moving Brain Support Awareness Habit Self Awareness Fixed Unconscious Worn Pathways

Book:What Are You Hungry For?: The Chopra Solution to Permanent Weight Loss, Well-Being and Lightness of Soul

Source: What Are You Hungry For?: The Chopra Solution to Permanent Weight Loss, Well-Being and Lightness of Soul

“A fixed habit is supported by old, well-worn pathways in the brain. When you make conscious choices to change a habit, you create new pathways. At the same time, you strengthen the decision-making function of the cerebral cortex while diminishing the grip of the lower, instinctual brain. So without judging your habit, whether it feels like a good one or a bad one, take time to break the routine, automatic response that habit imposes.”

Feels Wells Choices Decision Brain Break Judging Habit Conscious Function Response Fixed Decision Making Routine Take Time Worn Pathways Cerebral

Author:Deepak Chopra

“It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret. Father said that. That Christ was not crucified: he was worn away by a minute clicking of little wheels. That had no sister.”

Littles Said Father Christ Minutes Regret Habit Wheels Acquire Worn Idle You Will Regret

Book:FAULKNER READER

Source: FAULKNER READER

“I don't like this." "I know you don't, my little spaetzel. But I am too worn out to run from both the police and your murderous twin, and Damian's looking peaky, plus Christian did apologize for trying to kill us earlier." "I wasn't talking about that. It's your lamentable habit of using completely unsuitable love names for me that gives me grief," Adrian groused. "I am not a lambypie, nor am I a spaetzel.”

Knows Giving Trying Littles Running Christian Names Grief Talking Habit Give Me Police Plus Twins Worn Apologizing Worn Out

Book:Sex, Lies and Vampires (Dark Ones Book Three)

Source: Sex, Lies and Vampires (Dark Ones Book Three)