Doe Quote by Margaret Deland Download Open image “Habit does much to reconcile us to unpleasantness.” — Margaret Deland ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Doe Habit Reconcile
Habit is a man's sole comfort. We dislike doing without even unpleasant things to which we have become accustomed. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We have to learn to be kind to ourselves. In the long run avoiding unpleasantness is a very unkind thing to do to yourself. — Henepola Gunaratana Copy Share Image
What is there so offensive to which habit has not the power to reconcile us? — William Godwin Copy Share Image
It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation. — Rudolf Virchow Copy Share Image
Nothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature but all things become so through habit — Epictetus Copy Share Image
What I object to in Mother is that she wants me to think her thoughts. Apart from the question of hypocrisy, I prefer my… — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
Age, per se, may claim tenderness and pity, but not respect; that only comes when the years have brought humanity and wisdom and the… — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
War is wicked, beause it is murder and hate. And it is foolish, because hate and murder can only destroy people's bodies, not change… — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
there are few things that are more endearing than the grace of listening with attention; indeed, it is more than endearing, it is impressive… — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
the attempt to break a habit of years is necessarily experimental. — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation. — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
Age, with shamefaced relief, has learned the solvent quality of Time. It is this quality which makes possible the contemplation of certain embarrassing heavenly… — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
I have no faith in a human critter who hasn't one or two bad habits. — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
Isn't there any statute of limitation in things spiritual? I don't believe any large mind dwells on its sins, any more than on its… — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
To talk over a quarrel, with its inevitable accompaniment of self-justification, is too much like handling cobwebs to be very successful. — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
... some of the things floating about in the Well of Memory are not worth recording. — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self- satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does not take… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture. MARTIN LUTHER, letter to Chancellor Gregory Brück, January 13,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Sometimes a sign or a quote is simply interesting by itself and does not require anything beyond being framed on a page. — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery.… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool. — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
Nothing old is ever reborn but neither does it totally disappear. And that which has once been born, will always reappear in a new… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
One of the things the United States does well is building coalitions. What the U.S. knows is that if you don't have a coalition… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does,… — Alice Englert Copy Share Image
