Constancy Quote by Mary Catherine Bateson Download Open image “In many ways, constancy is an illusion.” — Mary Catherine Bateson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Constancy Illusion Memorable Way
Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
There is no illusion so permanent as that which enables us to look backward with complacency; there is no mental process so deceptive as… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature. The way of nature is unchanging. Knowing constancy is insight. — Laozi Copy Share Image
There's so many different types of illusions; our lives are an illusion in a sense. — Jihae Copy Share Image
Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu 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, immutable Tao. — Laozi Copy Share Image
“It's all about being in control of myself as an older woman who lives alone, and it's all about how I am going to… — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
The critical question about regret is whether experience led to growth and new learning. Some people seem to keep on making the same mistakes,… — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
Monotony and repetition are characteristic of many parts of life, but these do not become sources of conscious discomfort until novelty and entertainment are… — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
“ We never promised we would stay the same,/But only we would shape our change/From this now single clay. [p. 82]” — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
“Moving is both liberating and debilitating. Undertaken too late, it is a very stressful process, one that sometimes seems to catapult people into frail… — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
Improvisation and new learning are not private processes; they are shared with others at every age. We are called to join in a dance… — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
“Real winners in a rapidly changing world will be those who are open to alternatives and able to respect and value those who are… — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
“Self-care should include the cold shower as well as the scented tub.” — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
A suprising number of physicians manage to continue to care about persons even after the rigors of medical training. — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs… — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
“Physical things are eloquent tokens of ideas,enriched by new meanings through time even when the tokens are no more than evanescent paper representations.” — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
I was always anti-marriage. I didn't understand monogamy. I couldn't figure out how that could last. And then I met Bryn and I started… — Maria Bello Copy Share Image
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Perseverance is neither praiseworthy nor blameworthy; for it seems to be only the enduring of certain inclinations and opinions which men neither give themselves… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The word "hope" I take for faith; and indeed hope is nothing else but the constancy of faith. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
By the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time, is never… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Even gods decay. Like, in 1890 somebody sold off thousands of mummified Ancient Egyptian sacred cats - _for fertilizer_. Get the point? Constancy isn't.” — Jonathan Gash Copy Share Image
Prayer is the pulse of the renewed soul; and the constancy of its beat is the test and measure of the spiritual life. — Octavius Winslow Copy Share Image
To grasp life and meaning, we assume constancy where it does not exist. We name experiences, emotions, and subjective states and assume that what… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Feeling the security and constancy of love from a spouse, a parent or a child is a rich blessing. Such love nurtures and sustains… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
But keeping secrets is a discipline. I never use to think of myself as a good liar, but after having had some practice I… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
