Posted by: Emilio Rega
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Habit)
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
Written on monday march 25, 2013
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
Qualities of mind are not acquired by habit; they are only perfected.
Habit is the most infamous of ilnesses, because it makes us accept any accident, any pain, any death.
For habit we live next to odious people, you learn to carry the chains and to be subjected to injustice, to suffer, you resign to pain, to solitude, to all. Habit is the most merciless of poisons because it seeps in slowly, silently and it grows slowly fostering on our unawareness, and when we discover we have it on us every move is conditioned, no medicine exists than can heal us.
I have made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter.