#ceasing

When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves. ↗

— Katherine Mansfield

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Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God. ↗

— Peace Pilgrim

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All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

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We all want to be someone else but without ceasing to be ourselves. I think it's very important to defend this idea in real life too. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

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The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer. ↗

— Saint Augustine

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Many men of science and poets have in their own manner, by various ways and means, and aided by others, sought unceasingly to create a more tolerable world for everyone. ↗

— Eyvind Johnson

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Therefore, if God existed, only in one way could he serve human liberty - by ceasing to exist. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

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It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere. ↗

— Andre Breton

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Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy? ↗

— Allan Bloom

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Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding. ↗