#constancy

Women are never tired of bewailing man’s fickleness in love, but they only seem to snub his constancy. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#fickleness #love #love

Orsino: For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, More longing, wavering, sooner lost and won, Than women's are. ... For women are as roses, whose fair flow'r Being once display'd doth fall that very hour. Viola: And so they are; alas, that they are so! To die, even when they to perfection grow! ↗

— William Shakespeare

#love #youth #love

Love, built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies. ↗

— John Donne

#inconstancy #instability #love #passage-of-time #precariousness

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

— Alan Lightman

#time #dreams

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. ↗

— Isaac Barrow

#another #competent #concerning #confidence #considerable

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

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. ↗

— Richard Nelson Bolles

#always #any #argued #becomes #change

The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy. ↗

— Abraham Cowley

#constant #inconstancy #nature #scene #were