#ceasing

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. ↗

— Gian Carlo Menotti

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The scientific perspective of the world, especially the living world, inexorably impresses on us a dynamic picture of the world of entities and structures involved in continuous and incessant change and in process without ceasing. ↗

— Arthur Peacocke

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