Familiarity breeds consent.- Oscar Wilde
Read today's quote carefully. Wilde's saying is a play-on-words on the old saw "Familiarity breeds contempt."
It is a human tendency to put up with emotional abuse from those we know well that if done by a stranger would have us calling 911. Ask yourself whether you tolerate behaviors by a spouse or someone else close to you merely out of familiarity and habit.
Further reading: Oscar Wilde Quotes
Oscar Wilde: The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.
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Anais Nin: We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.
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