Quotes About Habituation

it is a cruel thing to be forced to say, but, already used to misfortune, I must habituate myself to shame.

Everything in life is unusual until you become accustomed to it.

There are no conditions to which a man cannot get accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.

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.

You know, one of my fears about living alone so long is that you get used to doing everything your own way.

There is a strong tendency to get used to and accept very bad things that would be shocking if seen with fresh eyes.

all horrors are dulled by routine.

We all get used to things we once swore we could never live with

The universe was a place of wonders, and only habituation, the anaesthesia of the everyday, dulled our sight.

Men become accustomed to poison by degrees" Victor Hugo

Our minds and bodies are one, aligned to a destiny predetermined by our unconscious programs. So to change requires being greater than the body and all its emotional memories, addictions, and unconscious habituations—that is, to no longer be defined by the body as the mind.

If emotions are the end product of experiences, then by embracing the same emotion every day, the body is being fooled into believing that your external world is staying the same. And if your body is being conditioned to reexperience the same circumstances in your environment, you can never evolve and change. As long as you live by this emotion daily, you can only think in the past.

I don't think anyone ever gets over anything in life; they merely get used to it.

You know you're a skydiver when you can't put on a backpack without checking for leg straps.

Habituation is indeed a fact of human psychology. That's one reason we like novelty, including different cuts of jeans.

But you get used to the air alright in the end. When you're here for the second or third time you'll hardly notice how oppressive the air is.

Beauty is like drink or comfort, once you get used to it, you stop paying attention.

The once terrible was now commonplace, meaning that people accepted it as the norm and went on living, instead of getting needlessly agitated.

As long as you don't react to a new stimulation, your puppy won't, either — they'll get conditioned to new noises, sights, and people, often without pause or hesitation.

If there's one thing I have learned it's that if you carry on as though nothing strange is happening, it usually stops being strange

Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.

They were brought up in these ruins and no longer notice them.

You get used to anything, sooner or later it just becomes your life.

The power of gradually losing all feeling of strangeness or astonishment, and finally being pleased at anything, is called the historical sense or historical culture.