Parenting is a constant struggle between making your kids life better and ruining your own.
It takes constant vigilance not to slip into negativity or simple apathy. It takes courage to believe over any given period of time that we are getting better and not sliding into decline.
On constant learning: If you're going to live a long time, you have to keep learning. What you formerly knew is never enough. So if you don't learn to constantly revise your earlier conclusions and get better ones ... you're like a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest.
It is distraction, not meditation, that becomes habitual; interruption, not continuity; spasmodic, not constant toil.
Beware of those who seek constant crowds; they are nothing alone.
War has been with us ever since the dawn of civilization. Nothing has been more constant in history than war.
Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.
For me, there is only one means of ensuring that I do not lose respect for myself: constant criticism.
Here's the progression. Feminism won; you can have it all; of course you want children; mothers are better at raising children than fathers; of course your children come first; of course you come last; today's children need constant attention, cultivation, and adoration, or they'll become failures and hate you forever; you don't want to fail at that; it's easier for mothers to abandon their work and their dreams than for fathers; you don't want it all anymore (which is good because you can't have it all); who cares about equality, you're too tired; and whoops--here we are in 1954.
My mother was the one constant in my life. When I think about my mom raising me alone when she was 20, and working and paying the bills, and, you know, trying to pursue your own dreams, I think is a feat that is unmatched.
The Christian who walks with the Lord and keeps constant communion with Him will see many reason for rejoicing and thanksgiving all day long.
Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.
The healthy Christian is not necessarily the extrovert, ebullient Christian, but the Christian who has a sense of God's presence stamped deep on his soul, who trembles at God's word, who lets it dwell in him richly by constant meditation upon it, and who tests and reforms his life daily in response to it.
It is a game you have to play. You have to tour your ass off. It's just always "where am I now" versus "where could I be?" It's constant competition with yourself. But I'm up for it.
Just watch babies. They're in a constant state of love. How could they possibly be so joyful? Because they're in harmony with the source. Some call that source God or soul or spirit or consciousness. They have no resistance to being joyful - unlike adults. You didn't come forth into this world to suffer, to be anxious, fearful or depressed. Remember, your thoughts, not your world, cause you stress. And you can change your thoughts.
I have lived most my life with chronic inflammation and constant pain with immediate diarrhea.
Thus 'tis with all; their chief and constant care Is to seem everything but what they are.
I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.
Children accept many things adults will not accept, since the world of a child is a constant revelation without any need for knowledge of cause and effect.
Things grew and lived in constant adversity, ingenious in solving problems of existence.