predilection

As you grow old, if you don't earn some money or inspiration out of your hobby, you will stop pursuing your hobby.

Habits are good if you have the habit of the best.

All incidents which we experience are warily interpreted and translated in the dark chamber of our mind. They inspire us how to behave, how to think, how to act and prompt our predilections and our way of visualizing the world. The mind opens itself then to welcome the enchantments of life or to tear up destructive thinking patterns. The brain becomes truly a precious resilient partner. ( "Camera obscura of the mind" )

People cannot help their predilections, although they may conceal them.

Some people would regard people who look like they do as ugly if they did not look like them.

Our natures own predilections and antipathies alike strange. There are people from whom we secretly shrink, whom we would personally avoid, though reason confesses that they are good people: there are others with faults of temper, &c., evident enough, beside whom we live content, as if the air about them did us good.