Crave Quotes

• All love craves unity.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Unity

  Fulton J. Sheen (2010). “The World's First Love”, p.159, Ignatius Press

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• Always there comes an hour when one is weary of one's work and devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart.

  Albert Camus

  Heart, Faces, Wonder

  Albert Camus (1960). “Collected fiction”

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• The more we count the blessings we have, the less we crave the luxuries we haven't.

  William Arthur Ward

  Appreciation, Blessing, Luxury

  William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

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• My love affair with nature is so deep that I am not satisfied with being a mere onlooker, or nature tourist. I crave a more real and meaningful relationship. The spicy teas and tasty delicacies I prepare from wild ingredients are the bread and wine in which I have communion and fellowship with nature, and with the Author of that nature.

  Euell Gibbons

  Meaningful, Real, Wine

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• The eye likes novelty, but the ear craves familiarity.

  W. H. Auden

  Eye, Ears, Likes

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• The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.

  Aristotle

  Men, Self, Cost

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1766, Princeton University Press

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• Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.

  Sivananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Follow Your Heart

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• All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves.

  Emma Goldman

  Education, Mind, Accepting

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.29, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• No one can crave what truly harms him.

  Franz Kafka

  Harm

  Franz Kafka (2015). “Aphorisms”, p.81, Schocken

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• Be suspicious of people who have, or crave, power. Never, ever go near power. Don't become friends with anyone who has real power. It's dangerous.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Real, People, Dangerous

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• Human nature craves novelty.

  Pliny the Elder

  Novelty, Human Nature, Humans

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• People crave comfort, people crave connection, people crave community.

  Marianne Williamson

  People, Community, Comfort

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• I am happy because I want nothing from anyone. I do not care for money. Decorations, titles or distinctions mean nothing to me. I do not crave praise. The only thing that gives me pleasure, apart from my work, my violin and my sailboat, is the appreciation of my fellow workers.

  Albert Einstein

  Appreciation, Mean, Giving

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.21, St. Martin's Press

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• Most of us spend years chasing things in this world that we think will make us feel loved. But everything this world has to offer is temporary. Everything. The kind of love our souls crave is lasting, eternal. And only God can fill up our hearts with that kind of love.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Heart, Thinking, Years

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Feb 14, 2016

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• Amusement should be used to do us good “like a medicine”: it must never be used as the food of the man...Many have had all holy thoughts and gracious resolutions stamped out by perpetual trifling. Pleasure so called is the murderer of thought. This is the age of excessive amusement: everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Medicine, Age

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• Virtue can have naught to do with ease. . . . It craves a steep and thorny path.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Ease, Path, Virtue

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• Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Change, People, Way

  Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

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• Jesus didn't mean this as a sweeping command for everyone who has a lot of money. Jesus meant this for any of us who wallow in whatever abundance we have. I imagine Jesus looked straight into this young man's soul and said, 'I want you to give up the one thing you crave more than me. Then come, follow me.'

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Jesus, Giving Up, Mean

  Lysa TerKeurst (2010). “Made to Crave: Satisfying Your Deepest Desire with God, Not Food”, p.15, Thomas Nelson

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• It's dangerous faith in our untamed Savior that leads us to the joy we crave.

  Randy Alcorn

  Joy, Untamed, Dangerous

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• Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Success, Wisdom, World

  Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.11, Beacon Press

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• Your soul craves truth, beauty, wonder, love. Your soul craves to dream, to imagine, and even simply to understand. Your soul craves to connect, to commune, to create.

  Erwin McManus

  Dream, Love You, Wonder Love

  Erwin Raphael McManus (2008). “Soul Cravings: An Exploration of the Human Spirit”, p.258, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Human beings crave freedom at their core.

  John Ensign

  Humans, Core, Human Beings

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• We human beings are tuned such that we crave great melody and great lyrics. And if somebody writes a great song, it's timeless that we as humans are going to feel something for that and there's going to be a real appreciation.

  Art Garfunkel

  Song, Appreciation, Real

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• You cannot be Christ’s servant if you are not willing to follow him, cross and all. What do you crave? A crown? Then it must be a crown of thorns if you are to be like him. Do you want to be lifted up? So you shall, but it will be upon a cross.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Crowns, Want, Thorns

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• People crave attention and appreciation more than they do bread.

  Mother Teresa

  Appreciation, People, Attention

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