Habits and ruts encourage old age - Edith Wharton
… the deathly process of doing the same thing in the same way at the same hour day after day, first from carelessness, then from inclination, at last from cowardice or inertia. Luckily the inconsequent life is not te only alternative; for caprice is as ruinous as routine. Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incesantly fought against if one is to remian alive.
-Edith Wharton
Giving and Getting - Alex Haley
The giving and getting, the sense of belonging and contrbuting to something larger than yourself, to something that began before you were born and will go on after you die, can make it possible for you to accept life in a way that makes you wish the whole world could realize how easy it is to feel as you do, and wonder why they don’t.
- Alex Haley
