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• I was taking care of people my age who were dying. The constant feeling, hearing from them, was that life is transient and can end very quickly, so don't postpone your dreams.

  Abraham Verghese

  Dream, People, Feelings

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• Truly, a life in constant pain is the life of the damned.

  Christopher Pike

  Pain

  Christopher Pike (2012). “Thirst No. 1: The Last Vampire, Black Blood, Red Dice”, p.211, Simon and Schuster

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• The idea of some kind of objectively constant, universal literary value is seductive. It feels real. It feels like a stone cold fact that In Search of Lost Time, by Marcel Proust, is better than A Shore Thing, by Snooki. And it may be; Snooki definitely has more one-star reviews on Amazon. But if literary value is real, no one seems to be able to locate it or define it very well. We're increasingly adrift in a grey void of aesthetic relativism.

  Lev Grossman

  Stars, Real, Ideas

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• The only constant in the technology industry is change.

  Marc Benioff

  Technology, Industry

  "Marc Benioff to Write Age of Context Foreword" by Shel Israel, www.forbes.com. March 18, 2013.

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• While I know that the beautiful, the spiritual and the sublime are suspect today, I have begun to stop resisting the constant urge to deny that beauty has a valid right to exist in contemporary art.

  Ian Hornak

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Art

  Cover Magazine, 1994.

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• Every day I wake up and that’s my goal, to be on a constant quest for knowledge and do something different, being unique and being uncommon.

  Russell Wilson

  Unique, Goal, Different

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• The emphasis is on community, on participating in more and more programs and events, on meeting more and more people. It’s a constant tension for many introverts that they’re not living that out. And in a religious world, there’s more at stake when you feel that tension. It doesn’t feel like ‘I’m not doing as well as I’d like.’ It feels like ‘God isn’t pleased with me.’ 

  Susan Cain

  Religious, People, Community

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.66, Broadway Books

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• It is setting goals and trying to be a business person, but at the same time not losing sight of who you are writing songs for and what your goals are as a songwriter. So believe me, if you think I've got it down I don't it is a constant struggle.

  Christine Lavin

  Song, Believe, Struggle

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• The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Simple, Men, Law

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• What yoga philosophy and all the great Buddhist teachings tells us is that solidity is a creation of the ordinary mind and that there never was anything permanent to begin with that we could hold on to. Life would be much easier and substantially less painful if we lived with the knowledge of impermanence as the only constant.

  Donna Farhi

  Success, Buddhist, Philosophy

  Donna Farhi (2011). “Yoga Mind, Body & Spirit: A Return to Wholeness”, p.12, Macmillan

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• Having emotional independence means we are no longer tied to the need for constant approval and are, therefore, not coerced into doing more than we feel comfortable doing by our need to please others.

  Sue Thoele

  Being Yourself, Mean, Emotional

  Sue Patton Thoele (2016). “The Courage to Be Yourself: A Woman's Guide to Emotional Strength and Self-Esteem”, p.32, Conari Press

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• There are many paths through the Ring of Life. They are a constant movement toward self-fulfillment through growth of your mind, expansion of your experiences, widening of your senses and growing your spirit. It's ceaseless and constant throughout one's life.

  Frosty Wooldridge

  Travel, Self, Growth

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• The predominance of moral factors in all military decisions. On them constantly turns the issue of war and battle. In the history of war they form the more constant factors, changing only in degree, whereas the physical factors are different in almost every war and every military situation.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, War, Issues

  B.H. Liddell Hart (2015). “Why Don't We Learn from History?”, p.9, Lulu Press, Inc

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• In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Flower, Sadness, Garden

  Okakura Kakuzo (2000). “The Book of Tea the Illustrated Classic Edition”, p.84, Tuttle Publishing

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• Virgin Immaculate, perfect lover of Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament, we ask you to obtain for us the graces we need to become true adorers of our Eucharistic God. Grant us, we beg of you, to know Him better, to love Him more, and to center our lives around the Eucharist, that is, to make our whole life a constant prayer of adoration, thanksgiving, reparation, and petition to Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament. Amen.

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Prayer, Blessed, Perfect

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• Suppose there arise a dispute relative to some important question among us, should we not have recourse to the most ancient Churches with which the apostles held constant intercourse, and learn from them what is certain and clear in regard to the present question? For how should it be if the apostles themselves had not left us writings? Would it not be necessary, in that case, to follow the course of the tradition which they handed down to those to whom they did commit the Churches?

  Irenaeus of Lyons

  Writing, Church, Important

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• For health and the constant enjoyment of life, give me a keen and ever present sense of humor; it is the next best thing to an abiding faith in providence.

  George Barrell Cheever

  Humor, Abiding Faith, Giving

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• The idea is the least labor and capital and resources you put together and the more you accumulate the better capitalist you are. So the suggestion I will make to you is that the idea of constant accumulation, which is what America is about, what consumerism, NAFTA are about, means that you always take more than you need and you don't leave the rest. So I suggest that it is possible from an indigenous world view that capitalism is inherently out of order with natural law.

  Winona LaDuke

  Mean, Order, Law

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• Eternity is a constant learning process. It will be another grade, another step, a chance to do what we failed to do before and to learn what we failed to learn before. Thank God for eternity! We've all probably got a lot of bad habits to change and failures to make up for. Maybe God will give each of us a chance to meet people who we've wronged and straighten things out and tell them we're sorry.

  David Berg

  Sorry, People, Giving

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• The time we waste never comes again. The opportunities we miss never come again. The loves we lose never come again. Indeed, in this world of constant change we are fortunate that these things never come again.

  Frederick Lenz

  Opportunity, Missing, Suffering

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• Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence, with the certainty of losing it at last.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Struggle, Majority, Lasts

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• Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  People, Effort, Gains

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1974). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, Vintage

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• Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted to general business; yet it holds the bridle better than the right, from constant use.

  Pliny the Elder

  Hands, Practice, Overcoming

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• Still constant is a wondrous excellence.

  William Shakespeare

  Excellence, Stills, Wondrous

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• I have a strong suspicion . that much that passes for constant love is a golded- up moment walking in its sleep.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Strong, Sleep, Love Is

  Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.80, Feminist Press at CUNY

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