"Routine is a ground to stand on,..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau
Routine is a ground to stand on, a wall to retreat to; we cannot draw on our boots without bracing ourselves against it.
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“Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.”
“I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest. What force has a multitude? They can only force me who obey a higher law than I.... I do not hear of men being forced to live this way or that by masses of men. What sort of life were that to live?”
“Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.”
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“Habit is a form of exercise.”
“All things here appear to me to trudge on in one and the same round: we rise in the morning that we may eat breakfast, dinner andsupper and to bed again that we may get up the next morning and do the same: so that you never saw two peas more alike than our yesterday and to-day.”
“As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.”
More on Stability
“Whereas the man of action binds his life to reason and its concepts so that he will not be swept away and lost, the scientific investigator builds his hut right next to the tower of science so that he will be able to work on it and to find shelter for himself beneath those bulwarks which presently exist.”
“Let us not play at kittly-benders. There is a solid bottom everywhere.”
“After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.”