Henry David Thoreau Quotes

No one should let themselves get used to anything.

People seem to get used to anything, and it is a short step from adaptation to attachment.

What interests me is the surprising enormous extent to which most people accept the fate that's been given to them, and find some dignity.

Oh, there's nothing like getting used to things.

What is there so offensive to which habit has not the power to reconcile us?

We don't make the rules. We just play by them.

You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.

We live and work in boxes. People don't even notice that. Most of what's around us is banal. We live with it. We accept it as inevitable. People say, "This is the world the way it is, and don't bother me."

Once you've grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you've inherited, you don't even notice it any longer.

Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you.

When people are used to you doing something, they want you to stay in that lane.

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

I guess I'm kind of used to it because it's always been that way for me.

Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate.

I can't imagine my life any other way than it's been.

The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.

Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.

I guess I have never been much of a complainer. You just take what is given you, and don't complain about what you can't affect.

There are no conditions of life to which a man cannot get accustomed, especially if he sees them accepted by everyone around him.

I've stopped questioning things and how things work.

People, a lot of times, don't like what's different. When it's something different out there, the majority of people will be like 'aww, that's wack!' but if it's regular, plain or a straight through flow, it's easier for them to adapt to, because everyone likes the normal.