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• If I were to be responsible for guiding souls, I would urge everyone to be aware of God's constant presence, if for no other reason than His presence is a delight to our souls and spirit.

  Brother Lawrence

  Soul, Live In The Moment, Delight

  Brother Lawrence (2013). “The Brother Lawrence Collection”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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• If people live in constant fear of death, and if breaking the law is punished by death, then who would dare?

  Laozi

  Law, People, Taoism

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• Constant remembrance of the Almighty will bring you everlasting happiness and peace

  Shri Radhe Maa

  Remembrance, Almighty, Everlasting

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• The constant exercise of our faith by lofty thinking, prayer, devotion, and acts of righteousness is just as essential to spiritual health as physical exercise is to the health of the body. Like all priceless things, faith, if lost, is hard to regain. Eternal vigilance is the price of our faith. In order to retain our faith we must keep ourselves in tune with our Heavenly Father by living in accordance with the principles and ordinances of the gospel.

  O. Leslie Stone

  Spiritual, Prayer, Father

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• Read poems to yourself in the middle of the night. Turn on a single lamp and read them while you're alone in an otherwise dark room or while someone else sleeps next to you. Read them when you're wide awake in the early morning, fully alert. Say them over to yourself in a place where silence reigns and the din of the culture — the constant buzzing noise that surrounds us — has momentarily stopped. These poems have come from a great distance to find you.

  Edward Hirsch

  Morning, Distance, Sleep

  Edward Hirsch (1999). “How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The Renaissance… was based on a new idea of the importance of the individual. But this was a fragile foundation, because individuals depended on constant applause and admiration to sustain them. There is a shortage of applause in the world, and there is not enough respect to go around.

  Theodore Zeldin

  Ideas, Foundation, World

  Theodore Zeldin (2012). “An Intimate History Of Humanity”, p.16, Random House

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• Time is a most precious asset. Would you consider investing more of your time in the things of eternity in order to merit the constant companionship of the Holy Ghost and to benefit more fully from His influence?

  Keith K. Hilbig

  Order, Investing, Benefits

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• Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite, are yet so contrived by nature as to be constant companions; and it is a fact that the same motions and muscles of the face are employed both in laughing and crying.

  Pierre Charron

  Pain, Opposites, Laughing

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• Opportunistic relationships can hardly be kept constant. The acquaintance of honorable people, even at a distance, does not add flowers in times of warmth and does not change its leaves in times of cold: it continues unfading through the four seasons, becomes increasingly stable as it passes through ease and danger.

  Zhuge Liang

  Distance, Flower, People

  Liang Zhuge, Ji Liu (2005). “Mastering the Art of War”, p.58, Shambhala Publications

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• God of peace,
  you are at the center of my life,
  a strong refuge of peace
  in the whirlwind of my pain.
  I look to you for strength
  and a constant assurance of hope.

  Joyce Rupp

  Strong, Pain, Looks

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• For Luther, it (faith) is an undeviating, trusting outlook appointment life, a constant stance of the trustworthiness of the promises of God.

  Alister E. McGrath

  Promise, Trustworthiness, Luther

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• Slavery is, as an example of what white America has done, a constant reminder of what white America might do.

  Derrick Bell

  White, America, Example

  Derrick Bell (2008). “Faces At The Bottom Of The Well: The Permanence Of Racism”, p.12, Basic Books

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• The great artist Michelangelo claimed that his sculptures were already present in the stone, and all he had to do was carve away everything else.
  Our understanding of identity is often similar: Beneath the many layers of shoulds and shouldn’ts that cover us, there lies a constant, single, true self that is just waiting to be discovered.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Lying, Artist, Self

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• Moral precepts are constant through the ages and not obedient to circumstances.

  Lord Acton

  Age, Moral, Circumstances

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• When I am in a relationship, I don’t wear lipstick at all. I hate the smearing, the retouching, the constant throb of phoniness as you surreptitiously check the damage in your compact between kisses. I wear lots of mascara to compensate, different colors so I don’t get bored. When I am about to break up with a guy, he has full warning because I start wearing lipstick again.

  Emma Forrest

  Hate, Kissing, Color

  Emma Forrest (2014). “Cherries In The Snow”, p.7, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• All beautiful forms of this world are in the process of transformation. Nothing is stable. With every moment, our reality is changing. Mother Ganges, like nature, is constant, but no manifestation of hers remains. Likewise, all that we hold dear in this world is imperceptibly vanishing. We cannot cling to anything. But if we can appreciate the beauty of the underlying current of truth, we can enjoy a reality deeper than the fickle waves of joy and sorrow.

  Radhanath Swami

  Beautiful, Mother, Reality

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• I believe that constant effort, tireless effort, pursuing clear goals with sincere effort is the only way

  Dalai Lama

  Believe, Clear Goals, Effort

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• Other animals, in a constant and mostly unmediated relation with their sensory surroundings, think with the whole of their bodies.

  David Abram

  Thinking, Animal, Body

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• Your constant utilization of thought to give continuity to your separate self is you. There is nothing there inside you other than that.

  U.G. Krishnamurti

  Self, Giving, Continuity

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• Constant you are, But yet a woman; and for secrecy, No lady closer; for I well believe Thou wilt not utter what thou dost not know.

  William Shakespeare

  Believe, Belief, Secrecy

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 2, sc. 3, l. [113]

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• It is your own assent to yourself, and the constant voice of your own reason, and not of others, that should make you believe.

  Blaise Pascal

  Believe, Voice, Belief

  Blaise Pascal (2016). “Pensées”, p.108, Open Road Media

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• We have to treat others as part of who we are, rather than as a 'them' with whom we are in constant competition.

  Robert Neelly Bellah

  Competition, Words Of Wisdom, Who We Are

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• A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

  Samuel Johnson

  Friendship, Men, Should

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 1755)

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• I just feel, in life, I'm searching for something I can rely on, something that's constant and something that's going to guide me through. And I felt that the Northern Star is a very beautiful image of that.

  Melanie Chisholm

  Beautiful, Stars, Guides

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• Not time is the measure of movement but: ...each constant periodic appearance of ideas.

  John Locke

  Ideas, Movement, Time Management

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