Zitat des Tages über Konstanz / Constancy:
When is constancy required, except under persecution. Are not friends then proved? If they always yield, how can they ever succeed? They must, one time or other, make a stand.
Children have a right to some stability and constancy from the adults in their lives.
I was always anti-marriage. I didn't understand monogamy. I couldn't figure out how that could last. And then I met Bryn and I started to understand the beauty of constancy and history and change and going on the roller coaster with someone - of having a partner in life.
Our constancy, same might call it our madness, was necessary to wear down the oppressive forces of the old democracy which, in Spain, was a hundred years behind the times.
The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, and intellect and feeling are only important insofar as they contribute to that.
Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues.
I've found constancy and balance between creativity and normality.
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
I fancied I had some constancy of mind because I could bear my own sufferings, but found through the sufferings of others I could be weakened like a child.
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.
Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.
That in affairs of very considerable importance men should deal with one another with satisfaction of mind, and mutual confidence, they must receive competent assurances concerning the integrity, fidelity, and constancy each of other.
In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you've lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there, you can deal with that change.