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• Repose is the secret of all contemplation and meditation, the secret of getting in tune with that aspect of life which is the essence of all things. When one is not accustomed to take repose, one does not know what is behind one's being.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Yoga, Essence, Meditation

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1996). “The Mysticism of Sound and Music”, p.33, Shambhala Publications

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• Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, "just in case," in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.

  Alexander Herzen

  Memories, Men, Years

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• I could not see the speedometer, and was not accustomed to travelling in an open vehicle, but I estimated that we were consistently exceeding the speed limit. Discordant sound, wind, risk of death—I tried to assume the mental state that I used at the dentist.

  Graeme Simsion

  Wind, Risk, Sound

  Graeme Simsion (2014). “The Rosie Project: A Novel”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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• She had all her life long been accustomed to harbor thoughts and emotions which never voiced themselves… They belonged to her her and were her own, and she entertained the conviction that she had a right to them and they they concerned no one but herself.

  Kate Chopin

  Long, Emotion, Conviction

  Kate Chopin (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Kate Chopin (Illustrated)”, p.219, Delphi Classics

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• Ah, Beloved. Of all the things I must bid farewell to, you are the most difficult to lose. Forgive me that I have avoided you. Better, perhaps, that we make a space between us and become accustomed to it before fate forces that upon us.

  Robin Hobb

  Farewell, Fate, Space

  Robin Hobb (2004). “Fool's Fate: The Tawny Man Trilogy”, p.79, Spectra

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• Understanding comes hard to persons of high rank who are accustomed to phony lifestyles that involve no daily work.

  Kenzaburo Oe

  Understanding, Lifestyle, Phony

  "A Personal Matter". Book by by Kenzaburo Oe, 1964.

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• We always know which is the best road to follow, but we follow only the road that we have become accustomed to.

  Paulo Coelho

  Intuition, Knows

  Paulo Coelho (1992). “The diary of a magus”, Harpercollins

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• We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.

  Graham Greene

  People, Important

  Graham Greene (1999). “The Third Man”, Penguin Group USA

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• A little lifting up of the heart suffices; a little remembrance of God, an interior act of adoration, even though made on the march and with sword in hand, are prayers which, short though they may be, are nevertheless very pleasing to God, and far from making a soldier lose his courage on the most dangerous occasions, bolster it. Let him then think of God as much as possible so that he will gradually become accustomed to this little but holy exercise; no one will notice it and nothing is easier than to repeat often during the day these little acts of interior adoration.

  Brother Lawrence

  Prayer, Heart, Exercise

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• The mind becomes accustomed to things by the habitual sight of them, and neither wonders nor inquires about the reasons for things it sees all the time.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Sight, Mind, Wonder

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• How you must have suffered getting accustomed to me, my savage, solitary soul, my name that sends them all running. So many times we have seen the morning star burn, kissing our eyes, and over our heads the grey light unwinds in turning fans.

  Pablo Neruda

  Running, Morning, Stars

  Pablo Neruda (2015). “The Poetry of Pablo Neruda”, p.15, Macmillan

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• But I still did not realize how mad she was, and how accustomed to dreaming; and that she would not cry out for reality, rather would feed reality to her dreams, a demon elf feeding her spinning wheel with the reeds of the world so she might make her own weblike universe.

  Anne Rice

  Dream, Reality, Mad

  Anne Rice (2010). “Interview with the Vampire”, p.254, Ballantine Books

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• I stood lonely enough, but to that feeling of isolation I was accustomed: it did not oppress me much.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Lonely, Feelings, Isolation

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.43, Penguin

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• Everything in life is unusual until you get accustomed to it -The Scarecrow - The Marvellous Land Of Oz by L. Frank Baum pg 103 chapter 13

  L. Frank Baum

  Land, Life Is, Unusual

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• Few things are sadder than encountering a person who knows exactly what he should do, yet cannot muster enough energy to do it. "He who desires but acts not," wrote Blake with his accustomed vigor, "Breeds pestilence.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Desire, Energy, Vigor

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2001). “Flow: the psychology of optimal experience”

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• Sometimes the eye gets so accustomed that if you don't have a change, you're bored. It's the same with fashion, you know. And that, I suppose, is what style is about.

  Bill Blass

  Fashion, Eye, Bored

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• We need changes from the duties and the cares of our accustomed everyday life. They are necessary for healthy, normal living. We need occasionally to be away from our friends, our relatives, from the members of our immediate households. Such changes are good for us; they are good for them. We appreciate them better, they us, when we are away from them for a period, or they us.

  Ralph Waldo Trine

  Change, Appreciate, Healthy

  Ralph Waldo Trine (2011). “Thoughts I Met on the Highway”, p.25, The Floating Press

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• In the heat of our campaigns, we have all become accustomed to a little anger and exaggeration. Yet, on the whole, our political process has served us well.

  Edmund Muskie

  Anger, Political, Littles

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• One reason we can hardly bear to remain silent is that it makes us feel so helpless. We are so accustomed to relying upon words to manage and control others. If we are silent, who will take control? God will take control, but we will never let him take control until we trust him. Silence is intimately related to trust.

  Richard J. Foster

  Silence, Bears, Silent

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• It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist for example Vincent Van Gogh, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man. If he is more than a popular story-teller it may take humanity a generation to absorb and grow accustomed to the new geography with which the scientist or artist presents us. Even then, perhaps only the more imaginative and literate may accept him. Subconsciously the genius is feared as an image breaker; frequently he does not accept the opinions of the mass, or man's opinion of himself.

  Loren Eiseley

  Art, Men, Humanity

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• Naturally, when it comes to voting, we in Texas are accustomed to discerning that fine hair’s-breadth worth of difference that makes one hopeless dipstick slightly less awful than the other. But it does raise the question: Why bother?

  Molly Ivins

  Hair, Texas, Differences

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• Relationship is the mirror: see your face there. Always remember relationship is the mirror. If your meditation is going deep, your relationship will become different - totally different. Love will be the basic note of your relationship, not violence. As it is, violence is the basic note. Even if you look at someone, you look in a violent way. But we are accustomed to it.

  Rajneesh

  Relationship, Mirrors, Meditation

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• Once slavery in America was not seen as radical. It became, instead, a revolutionary idea that slaves should be freed. When we have lived under a pernicious power long enough, no matter how oppressive, we grow so accustomed to the yoke that its removal seems frightening, even wrong.

  Gerry Spence

  Ideas, America, Long

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• I have two main reasons for retiring. The first is I can no longer play at a level I was accustomed to in the past. That has been very, very frustrating to me throughout this past year. The second one is realizing my health, along with my family, is the most important thing in the world.

  Mario Lemieux

  Past, Years, Play

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• Children are already accustomed to a world that moves faster and is more exciting than anything a teacher in front of a classroom can do.

  Major Owens

  Teacher, Children, Moving

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