One becomes gradually accustomed to a new realization of…

“One becomes gradually accustomed to poison.”

— Victor Hugo

“The danger, of course, is that we spend time imagining that we would be happier elsewhere, and forget to cultivate happiness where fate has…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“Wealth, status, and power have become in our culture all too powerful symbols of happiness. ... And we assume that if only we could…

— Csikszentmihaly

People assume that happiness stems from collecting things outside of yourself, whereas true happiness stems from removing things from inside of yourself

— Dalai Lama

I was exhilarated by the new realization that I could change the character of my life by changing my beliefs. I was instantly energized…

— Anonymous

My prayer is that what we have gone through [World War One] will startle the world into some new realization of the sanctity of…

— Christopher Morley

Because now, I didn't care what they thought. It wasn't new, this realization that I would never be like them. What was different now…

— Sarah Dessen

It is no wonder if, under the pressure of these possibilities of suffering, men are accustomed to moderate their claims to happiness - just…

— Sigmund Freud

I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life. Few of the others, however, had the possibility of direct gains in…

— Neil Armstrong

To one who is accustomed to thinking a lot, every new thought that he hears or reads about immediately appears as a link in…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Democracy is not being well served as we're accustomed to. There is less information, there's less investigation, there's less analysis, there's less accountability.

— Edward Greenspon

Early on a difficult climb, especially a solo climb, you’re hyper-aware of the abyss pulling at your back, constantly feeling its call, its immense…

— Jon Krakauer

There are those that say, if you do the uncomfortable thing long enough, it will become comfortable. But we are really not encouragers of…

— Esther Hicks

A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually…

— Mark Twain

We are puzzled and bewildered whenever we see suffering in this world because we have become accustomed to the mercy and the long-suffering of…

— R. C. Sproul