| "You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength." »Henry Adams |
| "Slow and steady wins the race." »Aesop |
| "The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him." »Harry Emerson Fosdick |
| "Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity." »Joseph Addison |
| "Misanthropes need people without a steady supply, the misanthrope cannot fully apply his art." »Polly Whitney |
| "Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye." »Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley |
| "To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind." »William Hazlitt |
| "The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money." »Mark Twain |
| "Rhythm is the basis of life, not steady forward progress. The forces of creation, destruction, and preservation have a whirling, dynamic interaction." »Kabbalah |
| "Through his mastery of storytelling techniques, he has managed to separate his character, in the public mind, from his actions as president. ... He has, in short, mesmerized us with that steady gaze." »Jean Nathan Miller |
| "The purpose of parenting is to provide steady and wide-ranging opportunities for a child. The child does the rest." »Michael |
| "To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be." »Anna Louise Strong |
| "In youth the human body drew me and was the object of my secret and natural dreams. But body after body has taken away from me that sensual phosphorescence which my youth delighted in. Within me is no disturbing interplay now, but only the steady currents of adaptation and of sympathy." »Haniel Long |
| "Do not pursue what is illusory - property and position all that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade and can be confiscated in one fell night. Live with a steady superiority over life - don't be afraid of misfortune, and do not yearn after happiness it is after all, all the same the bitter doesn't last forever, and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing." »Alexander Solzhenitsyn |
| "God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason." »Dag Hammarskjld |
| "The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion... It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider - and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation - persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree." »Alexander Graham Bell |
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