Avoid The Pitfalls in the Track Of Life

Avoid the pitfalls in the track of life. Avoid the detours which will deprive you of your celestial reward. You can recognize them if you will. They may be labeled “Oh, just this once won’t matter” or “My parents are so old-fashioned.”
Bad habits also can be such pitfalls. At first we could break them if we would. Later, we would break them if we could. John Dryden, an influential English poet and playwright of the 17th century, wrote:

Ill habits gather by unseen degrees,
As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.⁷

Good habits, on the other hand, are the soul’s muscles. The more you use them, the stronger they grow.
Thomas S. Monson