Quotes for All
Sophronia was minding her own business and running late to luncheon, as was her custom. She’d let to learn the advantage of punctuality. As she told Sister Mattie the third time she was late to household potions and poisons, nothing interesting happened until after an event commenced. Gail Carriger
Writing tends to cheer me; it always soothes my spirit and blesses me with the gift of an innocent, tender, childlike day. It is the sensation of having spent a few hours in my homeland, with my customs, free whims, my total freedom. Gabriela Mistral
Times change: it was once the custom to take a bath weekly and religion daily. Evan Esar
It takes far more courage to violate a custom than a law. Evan Esar
Freedom is where you can live, as pleases a brave heart; where you can live according to the customs and laws of your Fathers; where you are made happy by that which made your most distant ancestors happy. Ernst Moritz Arndt
Religion and nationalism, as well as any custom and any belief however absurd and degrading, if it only connects the individual with others, are refuges from what man most dreads: isolation. Erich Fromm
Also in contemporary Western society the union with the group is the prevalent way of overcoming separateness. It is a union which the individual self disappears to a large extent, and where the aim is to belong to the heard. If I am like everybody else, if I have no feeling or thoughts which make … Read more
what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress? Erica Jong
Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible. Eric Hoffer
Choose the life that is noblest, for custom can make it sweet to thee. Epictetus