Closeness Quote by Larry Watson

There is no death-the thing that we call death Is but another, sadder name for life, Which is itself an insufficient name, Faint recognition…

— Richard Henry Stoddard

“I was about to venture into the unknown. But that's what life with Emma had always been. The truth might be more than I…

— Rebecca Donovan

Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.

— John Fowles

“Those who are afraid of what comes after death because it is unknown may tend to be those who cannot face the unknown in…

— Robert E. Neale

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.

— Aristotle

That short-sleeping that we're now suffering is a consequence of our lifestyle. It's not a consequence of evolutionary habituation.

— Matthew Walker

“The brain is only interested in changes in information. That's why people don't really hear the noise of the air conditioner unless it suddenly…

— Sandra K. Ciccarelli

“when we get the thing we wanted, the game is over. On top of this, something psychologists call habituation begins to set in and…

— David DiSalvo

Psychologists call this habituation, economists call it declining marginal utility, and the rest of us call it marriage.

— Daniel Gilbert

It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation.

— Rudolf Virchow

“As Daniel Gilbert says, “time and variety are two ways to avoid habituation, and if you have one, then you don’t need the other.”

— Anonymous

It is exceedingly improbable that the identical action of the corresponding parts of the two retina is the result of a certain habituation, or…

— Anonymous