Quotes About Constancy

e.g. the sky looks the same at midnight on the 1st of October as it does at 10 p.m. on the 1st of November.

the world changes and remains the same.

No era Calleja, como lo creía él mismo, un gran militar […] su energía era menor que su crueldad feroz; su constancia igualaba a su lentitud […] es frente a Morelos en el arte de la guerra lo que un artesano lento y tosco frente al artista de concepciones rápidas».

Things change, but they stay the same.

The one thing that does not change is that, at any and every time, it appears that there have been great changes

When we're lonely, most of us can soothe ourselves by remembering the love that others have for us. This can be very comforting, even if these people are far away—sometimes even if they're no longer living. This ability to hold others close, even in their physical absence, is called object constancy.

The state of marriage is one that requires more virtue and constancy than any other. It is a perpetual exercise in mortification. — St. Francis de Sales

Constancy has nothing virtuous in itself, independently of the pleasure it confers, and partakes of the temporizing spirit of vice in proportion as it endures tamely moral defects of magnitude in the object of its indiscreet choice.

Title: To the Moon) Art thou pale for weariness Of climbing heaven, and gazing on the earth, Wandering companionless Among the stars that have a different birth,-- And ever-changing, like a joyless eye That finds no object worth its constancy?

The Moon And, like a dying lady lean and pale, Who totters forth, wrapp'd in a gauzy veil, Out of her chamber, led by the insane And feeble wanderings of her fading brain, The moon arose up in the murky east A white and shapeless mass. Art thou pale for weariness Of climbing heaven and gazing on the earth, Wandering companionless Among the stars that have a different birth, And ever changing, like a joyless eye That finds no object worth its constancy?

Still. No resolution ever. None. Nothing decided, nothing finished. The Dipper wheels back into place. Just one turn. One turn of the wheel and we are different, never the same. Not ever. Not even those stars. Even they, they decay, collapse, coalesce, break apart. Close my eyes.

like the moon, established forever, a faithful witness in the sky.” Selah

But You remain the same, and Your years will never end.

The sun rises and the sun sets; it hurries back to where it rises.

You will roll them up like a robe; like a garment they will be changed; but You remain the same, and Your years will never end.”

Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, with whom there is no change or shifting shadow.