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Robert J. Tiess Nov 27

A poem I'd like to share with you on this day of collective gratitude...

"In Constancy"

If you read this, thank you.

I hope you enjoy it.

Poem text link:
https://allpoetry.com/poem/17965521-In-Constancy-by-Robert-J.-Tiess/

#poetry #thanksgiving #gratitude #grateful #thanks #givingthanks #nature #earth #constancy

WIST Quotations Has Moved!Nov 24

A quotation from Victor Hugo

Change your opinions, keep to your principles;
change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

[Changez vos opinions, gardez vos principes;
changez vos feuilles, gardez intactes vos racines.]

Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French writer
Victor Hugo’s Intellectual Autobiography [Postscriptum de ma Vie], “Thoughts,” sec. 5 (1901) [tr. O’Rourke (1907)]

More about this quote: wist.info/hugo-victor/35025/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #victorhugo #change #changeofmind #character #constancy #flexibility #integrity #meme #opinion #principle #values

unknownbirds Aug 7, 2025

#constancy #tarotofthings #tarotcards #tarot #600

Ethan Longhenry Jun 3, 2025

How should we approach the many things we have to do in our lives all the time?

How can we maintain a healthy perspective about the #constant #spiritual behaviors in our lives?

Attitudes Toward #Constancy

https://youtu.be/D85yJQYQyXY

WIST Quotations Has Moved!Apr 10, 2025

A quotation from Cicero

No philosopher ever yet — and there has been a great deal written upon the subject — defined a mere change of plan as vacillation.

[Nemo doctus umquam (multa autem de hoc genere scripta sunt) mutationem consili inconstantiam dixit esse.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Epistulae ad Atticum [Letters to Atticus], Book 16, Letter 7, sec. 3 (16.7.3) (44 BC) [tr. Shuckburgh (1900), # 780]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…

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Epistulae ad Atticum [Letters to Atticus], Book 16, Letter 7, sec. 3 (16.7.3) (44 BC) [tr. Shuckburgh (1900), # 780] - Cicero, Marcus Tullius | WIST Quotations

No philosopher ever yet -- and there has been a great deal written upon the subject -- defined a mere change of plan as vacillation. [Nemo doctus umquam (multa autem de hoc genere scripta sunt) mutationem consili inconstantiam dixit esse.] Defending to his brother his change in plans, based on…

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damian entwistle Feb 20, 2025

Today's poem:

Cana
- by Thomas Merton

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/775990709986689024/cana?source=share

#poetry #Cana #faith #ThomasMerton #innocence #labour #gift #constancy #miracle

Cana

Thomas Merton Once when our eyes were clean as noon, our rooms Filled with the joys of Cana’s feast; For Jesus came, and His disciples, and His Mother, And after them the singers And some men with…

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