"Habit is a good thing for the human race. ... You have to spend so much energy just getting through the day when you have no habits that you don't have any left for productive labor."

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Source : Marilyn French (2011). “The Women's Room”, p.197, Simon and Schuster

Marilyn French

#Race Quotes #Energy Quotes #Habit Quotes

“The biggest names in the Transcendentalist literary circle visited the community regularly, and supported it, but they couldn't live there happily. Hawthorne [who was briefly a resident] left for reasons I'm sure make sense to you; he couldn't get enough writing done in a house full of people playing music, and arguing. It was too busy.”

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“For me, getting older doesnt mean throwing away a favourite-coloured lipstick or a fabulous pair of boots; instead, its about harnessing all the great things I have learnt over the years about what does and doesnt suit me, and enjoying the way in which cleverly selected outfits can enhance the nice bits.”
“Never say "never" about anything, because if you do, life has a way of humbling you.”
“Maybe no one can know how it is for anyone else.”
“All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure.”
“I was attracted to photography because it was technical, full of gadgets, and I was obsessed with science. But at some point around fifteen or sixteen, I had a sense that photography could provide a bridge from the world of science to the world of art, or image. Photography was a means of crossing into a new place I didn't know.”
“But there were worse things than disappointment, and I'd lived through several of them already.”

Source : R. J. Anderson (2011). “Ultraviolet”, p.216, Carolrhoda Lab
“What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.”

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