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• We must remember our duty to Nature before it is too late. That duty is constant. It is never completed. It lives on as we breathe. It endures as we eat and sleep, work and rest, as we are born and as we pass away. The duty to Nature will remain long after our own endeavors have brought peace to the Middle East. It will weigh on our shoulders for as long as we wish to dwell on a living and thriving planet, and hand it on to our children and theirs.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Children, Sleep, Hands

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• Some individuals may perceive their losing fight with gravity as a sharp pain in their back, others as the unflattering contour of their body, others as constant fatigue, yet others as an unrelentingly threatening environment. Those over forty may call it old age. And yet all these signals may be pointing to a single problem so prominent in their own structure, as well as others, that it has been ignored: they are off balance, they are at war with gravity.

  Ida Rolf

  Pain, War, Fighting

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• The genius of America may be that it has built "the fall of Rome" into its very makeup: it is very consciously a constant work in progress, designed to accommodate and build on revolutionary change.

  Cullen Murphy

  Fall, Makeup, Rome

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• Animals give us their constant, unjaded faces, and we burden them with our bodies and civilized ordeals.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Animal, Giving, Body

  Gretel Ehrlich (1986). “The Solace of Open Spaces”, Penguin Group USA

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• There once was a child, and he strolled about a good deal, and thought of a number of things. He had a sister, who was a child too, and his constant companion. These two used to wonder all day long. They wondered at the beauty of the flowers; they wondered at the height and blueness of the sky; they wondered at the depth of the bright water; they wondered at the goodness and the power of God who made the lovely world.

  Charles Dickens

  Children, Flower, Sky

  Charles Dickens (1868). “Old Curiosity Shop”, p.238

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• Great, it passes on (in constant flow).

  Laozi

  Flow

  Laozi (2015). “Tao Te Ching”, p.25, Booklassic

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• My life is now a constant assessment of whether what's happening in real life is more entertaining than what's happening on my phone.

  Damien Fahey

  Funny, Real, Technology

  Twitter post from Jun 13, 2012

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• Live in constant gratitude. No matter what the condition today, no matter how dark, how dreary, how painful and difficult....to day is merely the passing outcome of yesterday's nonsense. How you feel today, and what you give your attention to, builds tomorrow.

  James Arthur Ray

  Gratitude, Dark, Yesterday

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• Let us open the doors to the Spirit, let ourselves be guided by him, and allow God's constant help to make us new men and women, inspired by the love of God which the Holy Spirit bestows on us! How beautiful it would be if each of you, every evening, could say: Today at school, at home, at work, guided by God, I showed a sign of love towards one of my friends, my parents, an older person! How beautiful!

  Pope Francis

  Beautiful, School, Home

  Pope Francis (2015). “The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation”, p.23, SPCK

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• Wrestling is the only sport I've ever competed in that puts you totally in a situation of constant motion without breaks. I could play football or baseball, swim -- but there's always some kind of situation that would break my thoughts, break my concentration.

  Dan Gable

  Sports, Baseball, Football

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• Love, experienced thus, is a constant challenge; it is not a resting place, but a moving, growing, working together; even whether there is harmony or conflict; joy or sadness, is secondary to the fundamental fact that two people experience themselves from the essence of their existence, that they are only one with each other by being one with themselves, rather than by fleeing from themselves.

  Erich Fromm

  Moving, Sadness, Essence

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.105, Open Road Media

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• One must be truthful and honest in his approach; a constant independent inquiry and not blindly following a certain blue print laid down by others

  Bruce Lee

  Independent, Blue, Inquiry

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.202, Tuttle Publishing

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• Moderation, the Golden Mean, the Aristonmetron, is the secret of wisdom and of happiness. But it does not mean embracing an unadventurous mediocrity; rather it is an elaborate balancing act, a feat of intellectual skill demanding constant vigilance. Its aim is a reconciliation of opposites.

  Robertson Davies

  Mean, Acceptance, Skills

  Robertson Davies, Surridge, Jennifer (1997). “Happy Alchemy: Writings on the Theatre and Other Lively Arts”, M&S

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• You're in this constant state of flux and transition, as if you had jet lag all the time. The acting part of it is easy. It's all the other things that come with it that are a bit difficult.

  Don Johnson

  Acting, Transition, Lag

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• So much of growing up is an unbearable waiting. A constant longing for another time. Another season.

  Sonia Sanchez

  Growing Up, Waiting, Unbearable

  Sonia Sanchez (2012). “Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems”, p.69, Beacon Press

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• The constant pressure to bring about conformity is a dangerous thing.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Pressure, Conformity, Dangerous

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You learn by living”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• My creative life is a constant struggle to achieve a balance between letting things flow in and letting things flow out.

  Don Henley

  Struggle, Creative, Balance

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• Death is not the enemy; living in constant fear of it is.

  Norman Cousins

  Enemy

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• I think we are constantly faced with the same decision. The decision to be blindly obedient to authority versus the decision to try and change things by fighting the powers that be is always, throughout history, the only decision.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Fighting, Thinking, Decision

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• Like an enemy I knew as intimately as any friend, I came to know the nagging, constant emptiness of the incongruent life. I ignored myself and lived for people, purposes, and goals that weren't my own. I betrayed who I was and instead accepted a fictional substitute that was defined from the outside in.

  Phil McGraw

  People, Goal, Expectations

  Dr. Phil McGraw (2003). “Self Matters: Creating Your Life from the Inside Out”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• The past is an illusion. You must learn to live in the present and accept yourself for what you are now. What you lack in flexibility and agility you must make up with knowledge and constant practice.

  Bruce Lee

  Patience, Past, Practice

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• What's the trick? There are three of them: A sense of real purpose, a sense of humor, and a sense of constant curiosity. Keep using those to the grave because learning really never ends.

  Liz Carpenter

  Real, Learning, Curiosity

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• The simple recognition that everyone else wants to be happy and not to suffer, just as I do, serves as a constant reminder against selfishness and partiality. It reminds us there is little to be gained from being kind and generous while hoping to win something in return. Actions motivated by a desire to earn a good name for ourselves are still selfish, even if they appear to be acts of kindness.

  Dalai Lama

  Kindness, Selfish, Winning

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• A constant realization of the presence of Spirit will provide a sense of Divine Companionship that no other attitude could produce.

  Ernest Holmes

  Attitude, Realization, Spirit

  Ernest Holmes (2007). “The Science of the Mind”, p.177, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I don't think I'm fixed. People think that you're like a car in a body shop. You go in, they fix you, and you're out. It takes constant fixing.

  Demi Lovato

  Thinking, People, Car

  "'Demi Lovato: Stay Strong': 'Why not air all my secrets?'" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. March 07, 2012.

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