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“Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.”

Moments Faith Vices Habitual

Book:Essays and Lectures

Source: Essays and Lectures

“A century from now it will no more occur to a normal person to mate with a person eugenically unfit than to marry a habitual criminal.”

Persons Century Normal Criminals Mates Habitual

Author:Nikola Tesla

“Many people live habitually as if the present moment were an obstacle that they need to overcome in order to get to the next moment, and imagine living your whole live like that. Always, this moment is not quite good enough because you need to get to the next one.”

People Ifs Needs Enough Whole Moments Order Next Imagine Overcoming Obstacles Present Moment Good Enough Next Time Habitual Moments In Time The Next One

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of Respectability. Robinson Crusoe was rather a moralist than a pietist, and his leaf-umbrella is as fine an example of the civilised mind striving to express itself under adverse circumstances as we have ever met with.”

Mind Example Fine Circumstances Civilization Mets Strive Leafs Stamps Habitual Umbrella Adverse Carriages Respectability Civilised Moralist Robinson Crusoe

Book:Robert Louis Stevenson

Source: Robert Louis Stevenson

“Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment.... The world, you must remember, is only just becoming literate. As reading becomes more and more habitual and widespread, an ever-increasing number of people will discover that books will give them all the pleasures of social life and none of its intolerable tedium.”

People World Giving Humans Has Beens Book Past Remember Reading Social Pleasure Common Numbers Becoming Contact Accomplishment Social Life Habitual Tedium

Book:Crome Yellow

Source: Crome Yellow

“Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you.”

Trouble Routine Habitual

Author:Ovid

“It is only your habitual late riser who takes in the full flavor of Nature at those rare intervals when he gets up to go afishing. He brings virginal emotions and unsatiated eyes to the sparkling freshness of earth and stream and sky.”

Eye Earth Emotion Morning Sky Late Get Up Streams Flavor Habitual Intervals Freshness Sparkling

Book:Ponkapog papers, A sea turn, and other matters

Source: Ponkapog papers, A sea turn, and other matters

“In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is oncoming a new complex of habit.”

Wells Age Change Emotion Practice Habit Complexes Patterns Passing Passings Dumb Transition Habitual

Book:Adventures of Ideas

Source: Adventures of Ideas

“God loved us, and to prove it to us became human in order to become our brother in the flesh. He became poor, the poorest of the poor, in order to be able to include us all as his brothers (and sisters). He became a little child in order to be like children, even born, children from the slums. God has loved us and has given us all that he is and has. The Father gave the Son, the Son gave his very self, the Holy Spirit became our habitual sanctifier.... How grateful I should be to this kind Savior!”