Among life's cruelest truths is this one: Wonderful things are especially wonderful the first time they happen, but their wonderfulness wanes with repetition... Psychologists call this habituation, economists call it declining marginal utility.
Two ways to beat habituation: increase the variety of one's experiences and to increase the amount of time that separates repetitions of the same experience..
From Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert
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