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Quotes About Sustenance

He could see the great cloud of fear, shot with red and black, that was the god-form of Madragore, created by men, sustained by men.
~ Storm Constantine
As it happens, I partook of a very fine meal last night which filled me with energy and strength.
~ Storm Constantine
Humanity is our sustenance! Without them, we have no immortality. Without them, we all die. Humanity and elohim need each other.
~ Storm Constantine
He had never been keen on providing sustenance, only taking it.
~ Storm Constantine
We didn't eat much", one woman told Aaron, "but we always bought a book. It was a necessity of life." The Book Rescuer
~ Sue Macy
On the voyage from England, beer was their everything. Beer was their fruit and their vegetables in a diet that otherwise consisted of bread, cheese, and meat. Beer was their yogurt with its healing enzymes, and beer was their medicinal spirit. Beer was their water, and beer was their, well, beer.
~ Susan Cheever
It's that knowledge that sustains you through tough times, the certainty that you will always be less without each other than you are together.
~ Colette McBeth
Each time a feathered friend tarries to take and eat, it is I who am fed.
~ Miriam Therese Winter
you still have to eat.
~ Miriam Toews
A man cannot live without water. He cannot live without it, but he can bear the thought of no water. A man can live without sex. He can live without it, but he cannot bear the thought of no sex.
~ Monica Ali
As we walk through each day, responding to the needs of those around us, we can become physically, emotionally, and spiritually depleted. God has a never-ending supply of grace, strength, and wisdom available that He wants to flow through us to others. And we need to keep coming back into His presence to get our supply replenished.
~ Nancy Leigh DeMoss
These are the components of marriage, the wholemeal bread of life, rough, ordinary, but sustaining; Linda had been feeding upon honey-dew, and that is an incomparable diet
~ Nancy Mitford
You have fed each other, and you kept the wolf away.
~ Naomi Novik
There are hungers for a nameless bread out of the dust of the hard earth, out of the blaze of the calm sun.
~ Carl Sandburg
Good sense tells us that earthly things are rare and fleeting, and that true reality exists only in dreams. To draw sustenance from happiness- natural or artificial - you must first have the courage to swallow it; and those who perhaps most merit happiness are precisely those on whom felicity, as mortals conceive it, always acts as a vomitive.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Milk Duds kept me going.
~ Nora Dunn
a retreat. These exercises can be called the food of joy. In the Dhyana School, there is the expression "meditation as the food of joy," which means that the feeling of joy arising from the practice of meditation nourishes and sustains us.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Under the law of nature, all men are born free, every one comes into the world with a right to his own person, which includes the liberty of moving and using it at his own will. This is what is called personal liberty, and is given him by the author of nature, because necessary for his own sustenance.
~ Thomas Jefferson
You can't live long without water and you can't live a long time without wisdom. You need to drink both.
~ Keith H. Basso
You took the places where the spirits talked to us and you gave us bags of flour.
~ Kent Nerburn
Quién comprará, en los días perecederos, ásperos, un pedacito de café con leche, y quién, sin ella, bajará a su rastro hasta dar luz?
~ César Vallejo
Being a part, man cannot grasp the whole. He is at its mercy. He may assent to it, or rebel against it; but he is always caught up by it and enclosed within it. He is dependent upon it and is sustained by it. Love is his light and his darkness, whose end he cannot see. "Love ceases not"—whether he speaks with the "tongues of angels," or with scientific exactitude traces the life of the cell down to its uttermost source.
~ C.G. Jung
After eating the world's bread, we wake each morning to remember: We are still hungry. Seek a better loaf. Eat, and never die. Taste, savor, and be filled forever.
~ Calvin Miller
Humans needed love to survive. Love was sustenance. Love was life. The more she poured into others, the more others could pour into her.
~ Gena Showalter