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• I only regret that everybody wants to deprive me of the journal, which is the only steadfast friend I have, the only one which makes my life bearable, because my happiness with human beings is so precarious, my confiding moods rare, and the least sign of non-interest is enough to silence me. In the journal I am at ease.

  Anais Nin

  Regret, Silence, Ease

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• December stillness, teach me through your trees That loom along the west, one with the land, The veiled evangel of your mysteries. While nightfall, sad and spacious, on the down Deepens, and dusk embues me where I stand, With grave diminishings of green and brown, Speak, roofless Nature, your instinctive words; And let me learn your secret from the sky, Following a flock of steadfast-journeying birds In lone remote migration beating by. December stillness, crossed by twilight roads, Teach me to travel far and bear my loads.

  Siegfried Sassoon

  Twilight, Land, Sky

  Siegfried Sassoon (1949). “Collected Poems”

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• Patience means accepting that which cannot be changed and facing it with courage, grace, and faith. It means being “willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon [us], even as a child doth submit to his father.” Ultimately, patience means being “firm and steadfast, and immovable in keeping the commandments of the Lord” every hour of every day, even when it is hard to do so. In the words of John the Revelator, “Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and … faith [in] Jesus.”

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Jesus, Children, Father

  "Continue in Patience". Dieter F. Uchtdorf's address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. April 2010.

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• Over the years my mother's steadfast faith in God has inspired me, particularly when I had to perform extremely difficult surgical procedures or when I found myself faced with my own medical scare.

  Benjamin Carson

  Mother, Years, Scare

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• And for a disciple thus freed, in whose heart dwells peace, there is nothing to be added to what has been done, and naught more remains for him to do. Just as a rock of one solid mass remains unshaken by the wind, even so, neither forms, nor sounds, nor odors, nor tastes, nor contacts of any kind, neither the desired, nor the undesired, can cause such an one to waver. Steadfast is his mind, gained is deliverance.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Freedom, Heart

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• Isolation offered its own form of companionship: the reliable silence of her rooms, the steadfast tranquility of the evenings. The promise that she would find things where she put them, that there would be no interruption, no surprise. It greeted her at the end of each day and lay still with her at night.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Night, Silence, Promise

  FaceBook post by Jhumpa Lahiri from Dec 30, 2013

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• If we conceive that anyone loves, desires, or hates anything which we ourselves love, desire, or hate, we shall thereupon regard the thing in question with more steadfast love, etc. On the contrary, if we think that anyone shrinks from something that we love, we shall undergo vacillation of the soul.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Life, Hate, Thinking

  Baruch Spinoza (2014). “The Road to Inner Freedom: The Ethics”, p.22, Open Road Media

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• Ji-li's deeply moving story should be on the shelf of every person's library. Her courage in the face of adversity and her steadfast loyalty and love for her family are truly inspirational for young and old alike.

  Nien Cheng

  Loyalty, Moving, Adversity

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• How do you remain - steadfast and immovable during a trial of faith? You immerse yourself in the very thing that helped your core of faith: you exercise faith in Christ, you pray, you ponder the scriptures, you repent, you keep the commandments, and you serve others.

  Neil L. Andersen

  Exercise, Trials, Scripture

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• Sit, then, as if you were a mountain, with all the unshakeable, steadfast majesty of a mountain. A mountain is completely natural and at ease with itself, however strong the winds that try to bother it, however thick the dark clouds that swirl around its peak. Sitting like a mountain, let your mind rise and fly and soar

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Strong, Dark, Clouds

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• I feel we are so blessed to live in a country where we enjoy so many rights that other countries cannot even begin to imagine. However, it terrifies me that we seem to have lost touch with our connection to the earth. I am concerned that we have risen to such heights of arrogance in our refusal to acknowledge that our earth is rapidly changing in ways that might affect us catastrophically but instead, we hold steadfast to our belief that nothing can happen to us as a people.

  Sheryl Crow

  Country, Blessed, Rights

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• Kindle the taper like the steadfast star
  Ablaze on evening's forehead o'er the earth,
  And add each night a lustre till afar
  An eightfold splendor shine above thy hearth.

  Emma Lazarus

  Stars, Night, Shining

  Emma Lazarus, John Hollander (2005). “Selected Poems”, p.87, Library of America

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• Each soldier was the living image of the others, but there was one who was a bit different. He had only one leg, for he was the last to be cast and the tin had run out. Still, there he stood, just as steadfast on his one leg as the others on their two; and he is the tin soldier we are going to hear about.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Running, Two, Soldier

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• You are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.

  Jonah

  Gracious, Steadfast Love, Merciful

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• Late April and you are three; today
  We dug your garden in the yard.
  To curb the damage of your play,
  Strange dogs at night and the moles tunneling,
  Four slender sticks of lath stand guard
  Uplifting their thin string.
  
  So you were the first to tramp it down.
  And after the earth was sifted close
  You brought your watering can to drown
  All earth and us. But these mixed seeds are pressed
  With light loam in their steadfast rows.
  Child, we've done our best.

  W. D. Snodgrass

  Uplifting, Dog, Children

  W. D. Snodgrass, “Heart's Needle”

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• Successful investors tend to be unemotional, allowing the greed and fear of others to play into their hands. By having confidence in their own analysis and judgement, they respond to market forces not with blind emotion but with calculated reason. Successful investors, for example, demonstrate caution in frothy markets and steadfast conviction in panicky ones. Indeed, the very way an investor views the market and it’s price fluctuations is a key factor in his or her ultimate investment success or failure.

  Seth Klarman

  Successful, Keys, Views

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• There was no manifestation of contemporary culture that did not indicate to my grandmother how steadfast was the nation's decline, how merciless our mental and moral deterioration, how swiftly all-embracing our final decadence. I never saw her read a book again; but she referred to books often - as if they were shrines and cathedrals of learning that television had plundered and then abandoned.

  John Irving

  Book, Grandmother, Finals

  John Irving (2012). “A Prayer For Owen Meany”, p.275, Random House

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• I am a steadfast follower of the doctrine of non-violence which was first preached by Lord Buddha, whose divine wisdom is absolute.

  Dalai Lama

  Peace, War, Divine Wisdom

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• She is my first, great love. She was a wonderful, rare woman - you do not know; as strong, and steadfast, and generous as the sun. She could be as swift as a white whiplash, and as kind and gentle as warm rain, and as steadfast as the irreducible earth beneath us.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Mom, Mother, Strong

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• The most essential thing in dance discipline is devotion, the steadfast and willing devotion to the labor that makes the classwork not a gymnastic hour and a half, or at the lowest level, a daily drudgery, but a devotion that allows the classroom discipline to become moments of dancing too.

  Merce Cunningham

  Dance, Ballet Class, Discipline

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• If we mistake God's silence for indifference, we are the most miserable of people. If we give up when we no longer understand, we reject His caring, steadfast love and cut ourselves off from our only real hope.

  Sheila Walsh

  Hope, Encouragement, Giving Up

  Sheila Walsh (1999). “Life is Tough, But God is Faithful: How to See God's Love in Difficult Times”, p.1938, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It has also been a great solace to me, to believe that you are engaged in vindicating to posterity the course we have pursued for preserving to them, in all their purity, the blessings of self-government, which we had assisted too in acquiring for them. If ever the earth has beheld a system of administration conducted with a single and steadfast eye to the general interest and happiness of those committed to it, one which, protected by truth, can never know reproach, it is that to which our lives have been devoted.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Believe, Eye, Blessing

  Thomas Jefferson (2006). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.276, Hackett Publishing

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• The most agreeable of all companions is a simple, frank man, without any high pretensions to an oppressive greatness; one who loves life, and understands the use of it; obliging alike at all hours; above all, of a golden temper and steadfast as an anchor. For such an one we gladly exchange the greatest genius, the most brilliant wit, the profoundest thinker.

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Love Life, Simple, Greatness

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• Even in intake, the one steadfast thought is said to be the natural state. Nirvikalpa Samadhi will result when the sensory objects are not present.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Natural, Samadhi, States

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• There is nothing steadfast in life but our memories. We are sure of keeping intact only that which we have lost.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Memories, Lost, Our Memories

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