Aldous Huxley Quotes

It is injurious to the mind as well as to the body to be always in one place and always surrounded by the same circumstances.

The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is knowing when to use it.

Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.

Part of health is variety!

The only way to learn is by changing your mind.

Wisdom is the mind what health is to the body.

It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it.

To go out of your mind once a day is tremendously important, because by going out of your mind you come to your senses. And if you stay in your mind all of the time, you are over rational, in other words you are like a very rigid bridge which because it has no give; no craziness in it, is going to be blown down by the first hurricane.

Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.

The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day.

Variety is the soul of pleasure.

Variety improves the things that we do too often, but it rules the things that we don't do often enough.

Every day is a different day in New York; there's always something new going on.

But it is nice to know that you have other races lined up, because sometimes you can get so focused on your next marathon that it can become kind of unhealthy in some ways. So it's nice to have something else to slap you in the face and say, all right, there is life after the Olympics.

I'm always looking to do things that are really different from each other.

I always look for variety. I always want to run the gamut.

A wise man changes his mind, a fool never does.

I think you have to go and fill your cup and do so diversely; otherwise, then you burn out.

It's very nice to do a little bit of the darkness after a little bit of the lightness. Variety is the spice of life. I enjoy both, and hopefully, I will be able to do as big a variety as I possibly can.

That's very important when you're doing an ensemble piece, that you give it a variety of levels so it doesn't get too homogenous.

You've got the same rhythm every day just to keep you going. So once that rhythm is broken, it's kind of hard to get back with it when you got a lot of things going on.

Routine is important to me and keeps me mentally and physically healthy.

You got to be interested in other things. If you focus on one thing, you're going to eventually - like, you're going to get bored with it, or you're going to get burned out on it.

I love to have contrast.

Keeping your lives as varied as possible is a good thing.