Most people think that sleep problems are caused by our minds—by worry, anxiety, or stress. But researcher Colleen Carney has found that many chronic insomniacs actually have a 24-hour problem, not merely an overnight one. The real issue, she says, is what we do during the day to cope with our poor sleep.
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We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are. And what we are is largely what we have consented to become, through the daily, unremarked choices that accumulate into a character — and finally a fate.
Anaïs Nin — Seduction of the Minotaur
The child who desires education will be educated by his family, by his church, by every circumstance he meets and by his own will; the child who does not want education will not be educated even if he attends school forty years.
George Santayana — The Life of Reason: Reason in Society
It is not reason that gives us our moral principles, but habit and feeling. And yet the man who cannot give a reason for his virtue is in the gravest danger of losing it when circumstances change.
Walter Bagehot — Physics and Politics