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• Variety: The quality or state of being different or diverse; the absence of uniformity or monotony. Oxford Dictionary
• Variety: The characteristic of often changing and being different. Cambridge Dictionary
• Variety: The quality or state of having or including many different things.  Merriam Webster Dictionary
• Diversity,  Routines and rituals,  Balance,  Change,  Pleasure,  Enjoyment,  Boredom,  Exploration

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Variety is the spice of life

• Variety’s the very spice of life, that gives it all its flavor. William Cowper
• Variety is a good thing — it keeps life interesting. So mix things up a bit. Leo Babauta
• Sour, sweet, bitter, pungent, all must be tasted. Chinese Proverb
• Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety. Francis Bacon  
• My philosophy? Simplicity plus variety. Hank Stram

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Variety is the spice of love

• Variety is the spice of love. Helen Rowland
• The secret of love is seeking variety in your life together, and never letting routine chords dull the melody of your romance.
• There is need of variety in sex, but not in love. Theodore Reik
• The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence. Samuel Johnson
• It takes all sorts to make a world. English Proverb
• Not on one strand are all life’s jewels strung. William Morris
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Variety invigorates…

• Variety invigorates while routine saps strength. Do different things. Meet different people. Go to different places. Learn different things. Read different books.
• The best cure for a sluggish mind is to disturb its routine. William H. Danforth
• Variety’s the source of joy below, From whence still fresh-revolving pleasures flow, In books and love the mind one end pursues, And only change the expiring flames renews. John Gay
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… whereas too much routine can sap your strength

• If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine, it is lethal. Paulo Coelho
• Beware of monotony; it’s the mother of all the deadly sins. Edith Wharton
• As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge. Henry Van Dyke
• I want to caution you against the idea that balance has to be a routine that looks the same week in and week out. Kevin Thoman
• I wasn’t losing my focus but I was getting tired of focusing. What I was focusing on was becoming too routine, too ritual, not something that was interesting, new and exciting. Picabo Street
• Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities. Aldous Huxley
• Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure. Petrarch
• There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time. Coco Chanel
• Strength,  Weakness

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Variety creates harmony

• Variety is the condition of harmony. Thomas Carlyle
• You don’t get harmony when everybody sings the same note. Doug Floyd
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Variety is the soul of pleasure

• The variety of all things forms a pleasure. Euripides
• No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety. Syrus
• Variety is the soul of pleasure. Aphra Behn
• Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something. Jean Paul
• The most delightful pleasures cloy without variety. Publilius Syrus
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Celebrate the variety in the world

• In the time of your life, live – so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite variety and mystery of it.  William Saroyan
• The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body. Marcus Fabius Quintilian

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Celebrate diversity

• If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. John Fitzgerald Kennedy
• Our creator rejoices in diversity and variety. Any observation of our abundant earth and its incredibly different life- forms proves this. Robyn Knibbe
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Vary your activities

• An important way that you can bolster the effectiveness of a happiness activity is to vary it. By varying it, we ensure that we don’t adapt to it. Sonja Lyubomirsky
• Pick a part of your life that’s become static, perhaps stale—such as cooking, a job, housework, repetitive parts of parenting, even sex—and really pursue ways to pep it up. Try new dishes, turn up the music, get goofy, dance with the baby, vary your routines, and so on. Rick Hanson
• It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time. Marcus Fabius Quintilian

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Vary your routine

• Change your routine. Take a new route to work or order something completely different from the menu. It will raise your awareness about your immediate surroundings and create a new sense of place. Christine Louise Hohlbaum
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Feed yourself with input from a variety of sources

• We need a variety of input and influence and voices. You cannot get all the answers to life and business from one person or from one source.  Jim Rohn
• Our minds are like our stomachs; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetites. John Quinton
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Don’t be addicted to just one thing

• I take it to be a principle rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing. Terence
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Drink from every cup life offers

• Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle. Paulo Coelho
• You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life. Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Change is as good as a holiday

• A change is as good as a holiday.
• With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation. William Lloyd George
• Every change of place becomes a delight. Seneca
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• To be happy, you have to find variety in repetition. J Eugenides
• The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new. Cato
• The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness. Michel de Montaigne
• The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety. Somerset Maugham
• Tis better to plumb the depths of unity than forever scratch the surface of variety. Emile Zola
• The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day. Norman Douglas
• Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure. Petrarca Petrarch

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• If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.  Johnny Carson
• Democracy: A small hard core of common agreement surrounded by a rich variety of individual difference.  

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