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“I think we all carry within us different versions of ourselves. Our true, greatest, most honest versions of ourselves can either be developed and nourished, or it can remain dead from neglect. Most people opt for the easiest version rather than the best. But in the end which version lives, which version thrives and which version dies, depends on the choices we make and the people in our lives.”

“One day while studying a Yeats poem I decided to write poetry the rest of my life. I recognized that a single short poem has room for history, music, psychology, religious thought, mood, occult speculation, character, and events of one's own life. I still feel surprised that such various substances can find shelter and nourishment in a poem. A poem in fact may be a sort of nourishing liquid, such as one uses to keep an amoeba alive. If prepared right, a poem can keep an image or a thought or insights on history or the psyche alive for years, as well as our desires and airy impulses.”

“Joy draws its nourishment from quietness and from the unfathomable.”

Joy Draws Nourishment Quietness Unfathomable

Author:Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“...yet, unbeknownst to him, it had been kept alive - and it was only now, in listening to Deet's songs, that he recognized that the secret source of its nourishment was music: he had always had a great love of dadras, chaitis, barahmasas, horis, kajris - songs such as Deeti was singing. Listening to her now, he knew why Bhojpuri was the language of this music: because of all the tongues spoken between the Ganges and the Indus, there was none that was its equal in the expression of the nuances of love, longing and separation - of the plight of those who leave and those who stay at home.”

Love Home Age Song Language Secret Alive Expression Source Listening Equal Music Is Singing Longing Tongue Separation Great Love Nourishment Nuance Stay At Home Plight

Author:Amitav Ghosh

“The first man . . . ventured to call food and nourishment the parts that had a little before bellowed and cried, moved and lived. How could his eyes endure the slaughter when throats were slit and hides flayed and limbs torn from limb? How could his nose endure the stench? How was it that the pollution did not turn away his taste, which made contact with the sores of others and sucked juices and serums from mortal wounds?”

“I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them. I firmly believe there are books whose greatness actually enables you to live, to do something. And sometimes, human beings need story and narrative more than they need nourishment and food.”

People Thinking Needs Believe Humans Book Sometimes Stories Turns Human Beings Greatness Narrative Nourishment

Author:Emma Thompson

“Read at the level at which you want to write. Reading is the nourishment that feeds the kind of writing you want to do.”

Want Writing Kind Reading Levels Nourishment

Author:Jennifer Egan

“Muscles without strength, friendship without trust, opinion without risk, change without aesthetics, age without values, food without nourishment, power without fairness, facts without rigor, degrees without erudition, militarism without fortitude, progress without civilization, complication without depth, fluency without content; these are the sins to remember.”

“Nourishment is not just “nutrition.” Nourishment is the nutrients in the food, the taste, the aroma, the ambiance of the room, the conversation at the table, the love and inspiration in the cooking, and the joy of the entire eating experience.”

Inspiration Joy Rooms Taste Conversation Eating Tables Cooking Nutrition Nourishment Nutrients Aroma Love And Inspiration Ambiance

Author:Marc David

“A plaque hanging on the wall of my home invites me to remember where I came from-each day. It reads, "No matter if a tree grows to more than a thousand feet in height, each leaf, each day, must return to its roots for nourishment."”

Ifs Matter Home Remember Grows Tree Feet Wall Return Thousand Roots Height Each Day Invites Leafs Nourishment Hanging On

Author:Mary Ellen W. Smoot

“The nourishment of Cezanne's awkward apples is in the tenderness and alertness they awaken inside us.”

Apples Awkward Tenderness Nourishment Alertness Cezanne

Author:Jane Hirshfield

“If you follow the course of one man through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to get some nourishment from it.”

Ifs Knows Men Mind Helping Hands Courses Individual Imagination Practice Know How Style Flower Constant Ill Be Good Granted Acquire One Man Accustomed Thorns Nourishment Crude Pluck

Author:Cennino Cennini

“We do not ask for what useful purpose the birds do sing, for song is their pleasure since they were created for singing. Similarly, we ought not to ask why the human mind troubles to fathom the secrets of the heavens.”

Mind Humans Purpose Song Asks Heaven Pleasure Secret Trouble Ought Singing Bird Human Mind Nourishment Fathom

Author:Johannes Kepler

“Food and sex have been bound together for a long time. I guess this is due to the intimate connection between the two most powerful instincts that predominate in life: the instinct to survive and the instinct to multiply. Nourishment and sex give us a great sense of pleasure. Having the wisdom to satisfy both desires—for food and sex—is the art of living well. I truly believe that this wisdom lies within us all.”

Source: The Warrior Diet: Switch on Your Biological Powerhouse for High Energy, Explosive Strength, and a Leaner, Harder Body

“Having realized that you cannot influence the results, pay no attention to your desires and fears. Let them come and go. Don't give them the nourishment of interest and attention.”

Giving Desire Interest Results Pay Attention Influence Comes And Goes Nourishment

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Any serious man or woman in search of spiritual ideas will find a surprising challenge and an authentic source of inspiration and intellectual nourishment in the writings of Paul Brunton.”

Men Writing Ideas Inspiration Spiritual Challenges Serious Source Intellectual Surprising Nourishment Source Of Inspiration Serious Man

Author:Jacob Needleman

“A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch. Hence it is the greatest paradox in literature, the imperishable in the midst of change, the nourishment which always remains highly valued, as salt does, and never becomes stupid like salt.”

Doe Hard Literature Century Stupid Remains Teeth Midst Paradox Aphorism Salt Worn Nourishment Epoch

Book:Human, All Too Human

Source: Human, All Too Human

“Meditation is the antidote to all the poisons of your life. It is the nourishment of your authentic nature.”

Meditation Poison Antidote Nourishment

Author:Rajneesh

“Unable to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge: from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.”

“One can watch hours and hours of TV without actually losing interest, but, as with Chinese food, one is rarely left with much residue of nourishment.”

Left Interest Hours Watches Television Tvs Losing Chinese Nourishment Chinese Food Losing Interest

Author:Frederic Raphael

“A true personality . . . is like a robust organism that, with unconscious sureness, seeks out and digests the nourishment appropriate to it and vigorously rejects that which is unsuitable.”

Personality Unconscious Appropriate Rejects Organisms Nourishment Robust

Author:Gustav Mahler

“The bitter pinecone may be eaten, The mist on high give nourishment. The whole world takes to go-and-getting; My way alone is difficult.”

World Way Giving May Whole Difficult Solitude Whole World Bitter My Way Mist Nourishment

Author:Du Fu

“You, O money, are the cause of a restless life! Because of you we journey toward a premature death; you provide cruel nourishment for the evils of men; the seed of our cares sprouts from your head.”

Men Care Evil Causes Money Journey Seeds Consumerism Restless Nourishment Overconsumption Premature Sprouts Because Of You Premature Death

Author:Propertius

“Just as our bodies need proper food to live and develop, our souls need love to blossom. The strength and nourishment that love can give our souls is even more potent than the nourishing power of a mother's milk for a baby.”

Love Needs Giving Soul Body Mother Baby Milk Nourishment Need Love

Book:The Timeless Path

Source: The Timeless Path

“This drink has a magical power. It strengthens the weak, and revives those who have fainted. Those tired after work and physical activity can return their life forces by this drink much sooner than by nourishment. ... It works as a diuretic, an appetizer, an antitoxin.”

Force Return Drink Activity Weak Tired Nourishment Revive Vodka Physical Activity Appetizers

Author:Carl Linnaeus

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