Familiar Quotes

• People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

  Nhat Hanh

  Moving On, Depression, Letting Go

  Joseph Emet, Thich Nhat Hanh (2015). “Mindfulness Meditation: For a Quieter Mind, Self-Awareness and Healthy Living”, p.125, Souvenir Press

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• No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

  Lin Yutang

  Beautiful, Travel, Home

  Lin Yutang (1940). “With Love and Irony”

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• Surreal can be exciting and good, and it can be like living inside an alien landscape, and it can be completely interesting, or you can be alienated from your own life - inside your own life, it doesnt feel familiar any more.

  Feist

  Interesting, Landscape, Aliens

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• Something dies in us every time we change. To make space for the true, familiar well-worn habits must give way.

  Arthur Zajonc

  Change, Time, Space

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• I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

  Charles Lamb

  School, Childhood, Gone

  "The Old Familiar Faces" l. 1 (1798)

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• All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

  Charles Lamb

  Faces, Gone, Joyful

  "The Old Familiar Faces" l. 1 (1798)

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• The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

  W. H. Auden

  Eye, Hands, Bored

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• New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new.

  Samuel Johnson

  Made, Familiar Things, New Things

  Lives of the English Poets "Pope" (1779 - 1781)

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• If you find yourself as a person in unfamiliar territory, you will grasp on to what is already familiar.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Finding Yourself, Territory, Persons

  "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

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• The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.

  Alfred Adler

  Drinking, Humor, Knowing

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  So many people in the world would rather stay in a situation that's painful but familiar because they're comfortable with it. Not a lot of people have the strength or heart to realize when something's not good for them and to turn around and be alone.

  Corey Taylor

  Heart, People, World

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The more the schemata are differentiated, the smaller the gap between the new and the familiar becomes, so that novelty, instead of constituting an annoyance avoided by the subject, becomes a problem and invites searching.

  Jean Piaget

  Gaps, Novelty, Problem

  Jean Piaget (2013). “The Construction Of Reality In The Child”, p.354, Routledge

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• Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom.

  James Galway

  Running, Blessing, Boredom

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• Because of empathy, we care more for, and devote far more resources to, someone who is familiar, from our country or our group, than a stranger.

  Paul Bloom

  Country, Empathy, Groups

  "Paul Bloom: The Trouble With Empathy". Interview with Allyson Kirkpatrick, www.guernicamag.com. February 1, 2016.

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• If you're familiar with my man Uncle Sam, you understand the only way you can actually feel better about what he's gonna take, come the end of the year, is lifestyle. Only thing you can do is spend some of it.

  Curtis Jackson

  Uncles, Feel Better, Men

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• The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us. When the world seems familiar, when one has got used to existence, one has become an adult.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Childhood, Adults, World

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• Dying was apparently a weaning process; all the attachments to familiar people and objects have to be undone.

  Lisa Alther

  Attachment, People, Dying

  Lisa Alther (2010). “Kinflicks”, p.431, Open Road Media

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• Cliché activates the comfortable mental laziness, we sort of revert to the domain of the already-familiar, what we have already imagined so that it doesn't seem that bad.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Laziness, Domain, Seems

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Aleksandar Hemon". Interview with Rachel Dewoskin, therumpus.net. April 14, 2013.

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• We apply the language that is comforting and comfortable and familiar in order to grasp that which confuses and scares us. That is the first step toward cliché and stereotype, as they're comforting devices. They reduce the confusing world to the already familiar. We're always smoothing out the bumps of actual living to turn it into narratable life.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Order, Comforting, Confusing

  "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

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• In the Fiji islands, it appears, cannibalism is now familiar. They eat thier own wives and children. We only devour widows' houses, and great merchants outwit and absorb the substance of small ones, and every man feeds on his neighbor's labor if he can. It is a milder form of cannibalism.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Men, Islands

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• Fear keeps us rooted in the past. Fear of the unknown, fear of abandonment, fear of rejection, fear of not having enough, fear of not being enough, fear of the future-all these fears and more keep us trapped, repeating the same old patterns and making the same choices over and over again. Fear prevents us from moving outside the comfort-or even the familiar discomfort-of what we know. It's nearly impossible to achieve our highest vision for our lives as long as we are being guided by our fears.

  Debbie Ford

  Fear, Moving, Past

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• I think most films are too predictable. They follow familiar patterns. I suppose audiences like to know where they stand but I like films that take me by surprise, take unexpected turns and twists.

  John Boorman

  Thinking, Unexpected, Surprise

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I do think any modern storyteller is influenced by the stories we all grow up with and become familiar with, our shared cultural narratives.

  Ian Doescher

  Growing Up, Thinking, Stories

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I love this child. Red-haired - patient and gentle like her mother - fey and funny like her father. When she giggles I can hear him when he and I were young. I am part of this child. It may be only because we share genes and that therefore smell familiar to each other.... It may be that a part of me lives in her in some important way.... But for now, it's jelly beans and 'Old MacDonald' that unite us.

  Robert Fulghum

  Mother, Children, Father

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• Truth and Truthfulness is an ambitious work, and its journeys into history give it a breadth unusual in these days of increased academic specialization. . . . William's book combines real history and fictional constructs to tell a revealing story that makes us reconsider the meaning of familiar concepts.

  Julian Baggini

  Real, Book, Journey

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