#constancy

While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back. ↗

— Alan Lightman

#time #dreams

The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, and intellect and feeling are only important insofar as they contribute to that. ↗

— Evelyn Underhill

#contribute #direction #feeling #important #insofar

There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#inconstancy #nothing #subject #war

The secret of success is constancy to purpose. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#purpose #secret #success #success is

Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues. ↗

— Giuseppe Mazzini

#constancy #human #other #virtues

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#cause #consciousness #falsity #ignorance #inconstancy

My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He’s always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being. ↗

— Emily Brontë

#constancy #heathcliff #love #love

Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good. ↗

— Thomas Browne

#cause #constancy #good #obstinacy

Take it from me: love has all the lasting permanence of a rainbow- beautiful while it's there, and just as likely to have disappeared by the time you blink. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#everlasting-love #love #beauty

Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#constancy #courage #cowardice #steadfastness #truthfulness