Sustaining Quotes

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  Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

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• If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Happiness, Success, Happy

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• Success is not the key to happiness, happiness is the key to success.

  Herman Cain

  Inspirational, Happiness, Inspiring

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• My mother's love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.

  Michelle Obama

  Daughter, Mother, Integrity

  Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 25 August 2008, INVESCO Field at Mile High Stadium, Denver, Colorado

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• Then would you read a Sustaining Book, such as would help and comfort a Wedged Bear in Great Tightness.

  A. A. Milne

  Book, Comfort, Bears

  1926 Pooh, stuck in the entrance to Rabbit's house after eating too much honey. Winnie-the-Pooh, ch.2.

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• If you want to know what cram is, I can only say that I don’t know the recipe; but it is biscuitish, keeps good indefinitely, is supposed to be sustaining, and is certainly not entertaining, being in fact very uninteresting except as a chewing exercise.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Exercise, Recipes, Want

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.128, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In long-term relationships ... we are called upon to navigate that delicate balance between separateness and connectedness ... we confront the challenge of sustaining both--without losing either.

  Harriet Lerner

  Long, Challenges, Balance

  Harriet Lerner (2009). “The Dance of Intimacy: A Woman's Guide to Courageous Acts of Change in Key Relationships”, p.2, Harper Collins

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• But the healing place is within you. Healing is a gift you were granted at birth, just as you were granted others. Use your gifts, child. Use the beauty, the courage, the hope and the love that is in you. Call upon your strength. Use compassion and faith. Even during sad times joy is within you. Bring it forth. Wisdom is there to guide you. Use any one of your gifts and you will rouse the power of your healing place. Use all of them and you will sustain it.

  Charlene Costanzo

  Love, Inspirational, Strength

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• The Senegalese conservationist Baba Dioum can summarize: "In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught."

  Ursula Goodenough

  Environmental, Understanding Love, End Of The World

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• What I believe, according to my own experience, is that a calm, peaceful mind is a very important element for sustaining the body in a balanced way.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Believe, Peaceful

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• My faith in Christ is central to my life. My conversion from a pessimistic atheist lost in a world I didn't understand, to an optimistic believer in a universe created and sustained by a loving God is crucial to me. But following Christ does not mean following His followers. Christ is infinitely more important than Christianity and always will be, no matter what Christianity is, has been, or might become.

  Anne Rice

  God, Faith, Christian

  FaceBook post by Anne Rice from Jul 29, 2010

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• There are those, however, that are not frightened of grief: dropping deep into the sorrow, they find therein a necessary elixir to the numbness. When they encounter one another, when they press their foreheads against the bark of a centuries-old tree...their eyes well with tears that fall easily to the ground. The soil needs this water. Grief is but a gate, and our tears a kind of key opening a place of wonder thats been locked away. Suddenly we notice a sustaining resonance between the drumming heart within our chest and the pulse rising from the ground

  David Abram

  Fall, Grief, Eye

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• In the original language, 'Fear the Lord' doesn't mean be afraid. It means sustaining a joyful, astonished awe, and wonder before Him.

  Timothy Keller

  Mean, Awe And Wonder, Language

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• Nurture your felt love for nature. Never deny it. That love is the eons, the purifying intelligence, beauty and diversity of nature sustaining us in its perfection. Our disconnection from this love and its advice produces our hurt, greed and destructiveness. We must reconnect and restore its peaceful voice in our thoughts, soul and surroundings.

  Michael J Cohen

  Hurt, Love Is, Voice

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• If you believe in what you're doing, you'll be successful.

  Connie Sellecca

  Happiness, Success, Happy

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• If we are absolutely grounded in the absolute love of God that protects us from nothing even as it sustains us in all things, then we can face all things with courage and tenderness and touch the hurting places in others and in ourselves with love.

  James Finley

  Love, God, Hurt

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• Remember that your thoughts are the primary cause of everything. So when you think a sustained thought it is immediately sent out into the Universe. That thought magnetically attaches itself to the like frequency, and then within seconds sends the reading of that frequency back to you through your feelings. Put another way, your feelings are communicated back to you from the Universe, telling you what frequency you are currently on. Your feelings are your frequency feedback mechanism!

  Jack Canfield

  Inspirational, Communication, Reading

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• Exercise is about being grateful for the body you have and sustaining the life you have.

  Nicole Ari Parker

  Grateful, Exercise, Body

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• In the event of an oxygen shortage on airplanes, mothers of young children are always reminded to put on their own oxygen mask first, to better assist the children with theirs. The same tactic is necessary on terra firma. There's no way of sustaining our children if we don't first rescue ourselves. I don't call that selfish behavior. I call it love.

  Joyce Maynard

  Mother, Children, Selfish

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• We have too long treated the natural world as an adversary rather than as a life-sustaining gift from the Almighty. If man has the genius to build, which he has, he must also have the ability and the responsibility to preserve.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Responsibility, Men, Long

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• We do not need to invent sustainable human communities. We can learn from societies that have lived sustainably for centuries. We can also model communities after nature's ecosystems, which are sustainable communities of plants, animals, and microorganisms. Since the outstanding characteristic of the biosphere is its inherent ability to sustain life, a sustainable human community must be designed in such a manner that its technologies and social institutions honor, support, and cooperate with nature's inherent ability to sustain life.

  Fritjof Capra

  Life, Nature, Learning

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• We think of photography as pictures. And it is. But I think of photography as ideas. And do the pictures sustain your ideas or are they just good pictures? I want to have an experience in the world that is a deepening experience, that makes me feel alive and awake and conscious.

  Joel Meyerowitz

  Photography, Art, Thinking

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• He was met even now As mad as the vex'd sea; singing aloud; Crown'd with rank fumiter and furrow-weeds, With bur-docks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flowers, Darnel, and all the idle weeds that grow In our sustaining corn.

  William Shakespeare

  Weed, Flower, Sea

  William Shakespeare (1866). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.376

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• I have a religion-but you will call it blasphemy. It is that there is a God for the rich man but none for the poor.....Perhaps your religion will sustain you,will feed you-I place no dependence in mine. Our religions are alike, though, in one respect-neither can make a man happy when he is out of luck.

  Mark Twain

  Happiness, Happy, God

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.182, Chartwell

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• Let the workers organize. Let the toilers assemble. Let their crystallized voice proclaim their injustices and demand their privileges. Let all thoughtful citizens sustain them, for the future of Labor is the future of America.

  John L. Lewis

  Future, Thoughtful, America

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