To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Forming a habit means you stop being fully alive or yourself.
- In plain terms
- When you get into a habit, you start losing your true self.
- What can you take from it?
- Habit reduces your freedom to be yourself.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Do habits stop us from being ourselves?
- Is freedom incompatible with habit?
Another view
It dismisses all habits as death which ignores beneficial routines.
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