In misfortune we often mistake dejection for constancy; we bear it without daring to look on it; like cowards, who suffer themselves… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
What seems real one moment is fiction the next and gone out of existence the moment after that. Nostalgia is the greatest… — David Budbill Copy Share Image
I share with many people the feeling that there is a sweetness and constancy to light that falls into a studio from… — Irving Penn Copy Share Image
I fancied I had some constancy of mind because I could bear my own sufferings, but found through the sufferings of others… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
People of our time are so formed for agitation and ostentation that goodness, moderation, equability, constancy, and such quiet and obscure qualities… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There are two sorts of constancy in love one arises from continually discovering in the loved person new subjects for love, the… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We often in our misfortunes take that for constancy and patience which is only dejection of mind; we suffer without daring to… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Rain puts a hole in stone because of its constancy, not its force. Just keep knocking on doors until the right one… — Joseph Gerber Copy Share Image
People who know the state of emptiness will always be able to dissolve their problems by constancy. — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
Well, while I live I'll fear no other thing So sore as keeping safe Nerissa's ring. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Marriage has, for its share, usefulness, justice, honour, and constancy; a stale but more durable pleasure. Love is grounded on pleasure alone,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
In your deliberations, when seeking to determine the military conditions, let them be made the basis of a comparison, in this wise:… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“In all the mad incongruity, the turgid stultiloquy of life, I felt, at least, securely anchored to myself. Whatever the vacillations of… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
A good marriage ... is a sweet association in life: full of constancy, trust, and an infinite number of useful and solid… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Why God should want and need us is a mystery. But it is true: otherwise he would not have created us and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you accurately perceive the fluidity of things, you can also begin to perceive the constancy behind them: the creative, transformative, boundless,… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Take back the beauty and wit you bestow upon me; leave me my own mediocrity of agreeableness and genius, but leave me… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If any be unhappy, let him remember that he is unhappy by reason of himself alone. For God hath made all men… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
He that resigns his peace to little casualties, and suffers the course of his life to be interrupted for fortuitous inadvertencies or… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Good Nature, and Evenness of Temper, will give you an easie Companion for Life; Vertue and good Sense, an agreeable Friend; Love… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth, And constancy lives in realms above; And life is… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
As soon seek roses in December, ice in June, Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff Believe a woman or an… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
But as to the affection which anyone may have for us, it is the first demand of duty that we do most… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Six, or at most seven, hours' sleep is, for a constancy, as much as you or anybody else can want; more is… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably. — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
