Beginning Quote by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

“We knew we did not lay down the direction of the street, but despite that, we could—and must—fashion the way of our walk.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken." ~Samuel Johnson”

— Scott Leopold

“Everyday he saw better, and he began to climb slowly, one by one, almost reluctantly at first then, with intoxication and, as though drawn…

— Victor Hugo

The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act we strengthen the strand, add to it…

— Orison Swett Marden

When we think how narrow and devious this path of nature is, how dimly we can trace it, for all our lamps of science,…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Habits begin as offhanded remarks, ideas and images. And then, layer upon layer, through practice, they grow from cobwebs into cables that shackle or…

— Kevin Horsley

Before man can be free, and equal, and truly wise, he must cast aside the chains of habit and superstition; he must strip sensuality…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“When the windows like the jackal’s eye and desire pierce the dawn, silken windlasses lift me up to suburban footbridges. I summon a girl…

— André Breton

In the course of the world, a man must very often put on an easy, frank countenance, upon very disagreeable occasions; he must seem…

— Lord Chesterfield

“The fascination that lives on the keenest edge, and sparkles on the sharpest point, also gathers in depths of a fall.”

— Mark Lawrence

Path presupposes distance; If He be near, no path needest thou at all. Verily it maketh me smile To hear of a fish in…

— Kabir

“A wilderness of gilt, gleaming in the slant from the dust-furred windows: gilded cupids, gilded commodes and torchieres, and -- undercutting the old-wood smell…

— Donna Tartt