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“Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle. In many parts of the world society is given to instant gratification and consumerism while remaining indifferent to the damage which these attitudes cause. Simplicity, moderation and discipline, as well as a spirit of sacrifice, must become part of everyday life, lest all suffer the negative consequences of the careless habits of a few.”

“One must never have spared oneself, one must have acquired hardness as a habit to be cheerful and in good spirits in the midst of nothing but hard truths.”

Hard Spirit Habit Oneself Midst Cheerful Cheerfulness Hardness Hard Truths

Book:Basic Writings of Nietzsche

Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche

“Whatsoever stirs the stagnant currents, setting these flowing in wholesome directions, promotes brisk spirits and productive thinking. The less of routine, the more of life.”

Thinking Spirit Habit Currents Setting Settings Productive Routine Spontaneity Stagnant

Book:Table-talk

Source: Table-talk

“It is so very easy and so very pleasant, too, to read only books which lead to nothing, light and interesting books, and the more the better, that it is almost as difficult to wean ourselves from it as from the habit of chewing tobacco to excess, or of smoking the whole time, or of depending for stimulus upon tea or coffee or spirits.”

Book Whole Light Spirit Easy Difficult Interesting Habit Coffee Tea Pleasant Smoking Excess Stimulus Tobacco Chewing Interesting Book Chewing Tobacco

Author:Charles Francis Adams, Sr.

“I am ever Thine. If Thou cast me out, who shall take me in? If Thou disregard me, who shall look on me? More canst Thou remit, than I commit; more canst Thou spare, than I offend. Let not hurtful pleasures overcome me; at the least let not any perverse habit overwhelm me; From evil and unlawful desires; From vain, hurtful, impure imaginations; from the illusions of evil spirits; from pollutions of soul and of body; Good Lord, deliver me.”

Ifs Looks Soul Body Spirit Desire Evil Imagination Pleasure Lord Habit Illusion Overcoming Casts Commit Vain Take Me Pollution Spares Disregard Hurtful Unlawful Evil Spirits

Author:Lancelot Andrewes

“As the index tells us the contents of stories and directs to the particular chapter, even so does the outward habit and superficial order of garments (in man or woman) give us a taste of the spirit, and demonstratively point (as it were a manual note from the margin) all the internal quality of the soul; and there cannot be a more evident, palpable, gross manifestation of poor, degenerate, dunghilly blood and breeding than a rude, unpolished, disordered, and slovenly outside.”

Source: The plays of Philip Massinger, with notes by W. Gifford

“That which most contributes to the permanence of constitutions is the adaptation of education to the form of government, and yet in our own day this principle is universally neglected. The best laws, though sanctioned by every citizen of the state, will be of no avail unless the young are trained by habit and education in the spirit of the constitution.”

States Government Form Law Young Spirit Principles Habit Citizens Constitution Adaptation Neglected Forms Of Government Permanence

Book:The Essential Aristotle

Source: The Essential Aristotle

“Quidquid luce fuit tenebris agit: but also the other way around. What we experience in dreams, so long as we experience it frequently, is in the end just as much a part of the total economy of our soul as anything we "really" experience: because of it we are richer or poorer, are sensitive to one need more or less, and are eventually guided a little by our dream-habits in broad daylight and even in the most cheerful moments occupying our waking spirit.”

Way Needs Littles Long Soul Ends Moments Dream Spirit Economy Habit Experience Sensitive Broads Waking Cheerful Our Dreams Daylight

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Habit! that skillful but slow arranger, which starts out by letting our spirit suffer for weeks in a temporary state, but that thespirit is after all happy to discover, for without habit and reduced to its own resources, the spirit would be unable to make any lodgings seem habitable.”

States Seems Would Be Spirit Suffering Week Habit Resources Temporary Skillful

Author:Marcel Proust