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• Its not about passion. Passion is something that we tend to overemphasize, that we certainly place too much importance on. Passion ebbs and flows. To me, it's about desire. If you have constant, unwavering desire to be a cook, then u'll be a great cook.

  Thomas Keller

  Passion, Ebb And Flow, Desire

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• The most holy and necessary practice in our spiritual life is the presence of God. That means finding constant pleasure in His divine company, speaking humbly and lovingly with him in all seasons, at every moment, without limiting the conversation in any way.

  Brother Lawrence

  Spiritual, Mean, Practice

  Brother Lawrence (2013). “Spiritual Maxims of Brother Lawrence”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• Through every generation of the human race there has been a constant war, a war with fear. Those who have the courage to conquer it are made free and those who are conquered by it are made to suffer until they have the courage to defeat it, or death takes them.

  Alexander the Great

  War, Race, Suffering

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• There must be labor, incessant and constant, if there is to be a harvest.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Harvest, Incessant, Labor

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• When you are free of your self in your heart, your labouring within your self is therapeutic to your self. It is a constant blend into your self of what your own Being is. The movement of love, enjoying being at work in the self. The movement of love, enjoying making a change in your self. The enjoyment of application.

  John de Ruiter

  Heart, Self, Movement

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• So travel for me is an act of discovery and of responsibility as well a grand adventure and a constant liberation.

  Pico Iyer

  Adventure, Responsibility, Discovery

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• The only thing constant in the world is change, that's why today I take life as it comes.

  India.Arie

  World, Today

  "India.Arie Shares Life Lessons On Voyage To India" by Shaheem Reid, www.mtv.com. September 26, 2002.

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• It is not always those who have the most eminent gifts who are the most successful laborers for God. It is generally those who keep up closest communion with Christ and are most constant in prayer.

  J. C. Ryle

  Prayer, Successful, Christ

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Mark”, p.82, Editora Dracaena

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• Success is a journey, not a destination. It requires constant effort, vigilance and reevaluation.

  Mark Twain

  Journey, Effort, Destination

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• There is not a day but sin foils or is foiled, prevails or is prevailed upon. It will always be so while we live in this world. Sin will not spare for one day. There is no safety but in a constant warfare for those who desire deliverance from sin's perplexing rebellion.

  John Owen

  Safety, One Day, Desire

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• A living language is like a man suffering incessantly from small hemorrhages, and what it needs above all else is constant transactions of new blood from other tongues. The day the gates go up, that day it begins to die.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Blood, Suffering

  "The 100 best nonfiction books: No 49 - The American Language by HL Mencken (1919)" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. January 9, 2017.

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• A too constant preoccupation with money may seem to indicate the lack of a proper sense of moral values, but [let] those who have always had money . . . be without it for a while, and they will soon discover how quickly it becomes their chief concern.

  Moss Hart

  Money, May, Moral

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• A mountian bike race is a constant hard effort for two to three hours. In road racing the efforts often come in surges. You ride easy for awhile then you have to make an extreme, hard effort. They are two different efforts, two different forms of suffering.

  John Tomac

  Cycling, Race, Two

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• Without being in constant exchange with the rest of the cosmos, you cannot exist. The idea of individuality is an illusion.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Ideas

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• The spiritual process has always been referred to as a journey - constant change.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Spiritual

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• Every little bit, every atom inside the universe, is in a constant state of change and motion, but the universe as a whole is unchangeable, because motion or change is a relative thing; we can only think of something in motion in comparison with something which is not moving.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Moving, Thinking, Atoms

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.33, editionNEXT.com

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• Learning is a constant process of discovery - a process without end.

  Bruce Lee

  Discovery, Ends, Process

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• Divorce is war and unfortunately, some parents live in constant entanglements with their ex-spouses and they shift aside the issues that post-divorce can leave on the shoulders of their children.

  Diane Greene

  Children, War, Divorce

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• Belief in ourself is like a muscle - it is strengthened by constant and careful use.

  Catherine DeVrye

  Wisdom, Use, Belief

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• Abhyasa (practice) is a dedicated, unswerving, constant, and vigilant search into a chosen subject pursued against all odds in the face of repeated failures, for indefinitely long periods of time.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Odds, Practice, Long

  B. K. S. Iyengar (2012). “Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali”, p.16, HarperCollins UK

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• For Noah, preaching 120 years without results meant choosing the hard road year after year. Nehemiah, building the wall of Jerusalem, faced constant harassment by enemies from within and without. We cannot honestly, authentically, reasonably and deliberately serve our Lord without our willingness to accept difficulties and inconveniences.

  K.P. Yohannan

  Wall, Years, Enemy

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• The most evident token and apparent sign of true wisdom is a constant and unconstrained rejoicing.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Rejoice, True Wisdom, Tokens

  Michel de Montaigne (1904). “Great Essays by Montaigne, Sidney, Milton, Cowley, Disraeli, Lamb, Irving, Lowell, Jefferies, and Others”

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• Jesus’ example of fidelity to prayer challenges us to examine the time and effort we devote to our own prayer. While prayer is a gift of God, it is also an art learned through constant practice. Jesus teaches us to pray constantly, but also to bear witness before others of the beauty of prayer, self-surrender and complete openness to God.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Jesus, Art, Prayer

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• In an age of speed, I began to think nothing could be more exhilarating than going slow. In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention. And in an age of constant movement, nothing is more urgent than sitting still.

  Pico Iyer

  Thinking, Sitting Still, Age

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• Despite the obvious emphasis of Scripture (in regard to suffering), we are bombarded by suggestions that the 'successful' Christian living takes place in the realm of constant victory, health, wholeness, and financial prosperity. In response to this we are not to pretend that suffering doesn’t exist or that it might be instantly cured. Such notions are the product of empty heads and closed Bibles.

  Alistair Begg

  Christian, Successful, Bombarded By

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