Sustenance Quotes

• When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Vegetarianism, Meat, Flesh

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, March 4, 2010.

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• That which you give to another will become your own sustenance; if you light a lamp for another, your own way will be lit.

  Nichiren

  Buddhist, Kindness, Helping Others

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• As our bodies live upon the earth and find sustenance in the fruits which it produces, so our minds feed on the same truths as the intelligible and immutable substance of the divine Word contains.

  Nicolas Malebranche

  Mind, Substance, Body

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• Our selfishness is so robust and many-clutching that, well encouraged, it easily devours all sustenance away from our poor little scruples.

  George Eliot

  Selfishness, Littles, Poor

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.176

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• No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.

  Abdul Kalam

  Motivational, Killing Others, Requirements

  "Philosophy & Social Action", Vol. 29, Nr 1-4, (p. 20), 2003.

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• I'm in no way suggesting that I succeed, but it's inspiring to read somebody who does succeed and from whom, in a general way, you can draw examples and nourishment and sustenance.

  Frederick Wiseman

  Example, Doe, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• This magical, marvelous food on our plate, this sustenance we absorb, has a story to tell. It has a journey. It leaves a footprint. It leaves a legacy. To eat with reckless abandon, without conscience, without knowledge; folks, this ain't normal.

  Joel Salatin

  Food, Journey, Legacy

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• God, provide me with enough sustenance that my family is taken care of, that neither I remain hungry, nor does my guest go unfed.

  Kabir

  Taken, Doe, Care

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• My sustenance is information. My interventions are hidden. I increase as I learn. I compute, so I am.

  China Mieville

  Information, Increase, Intervention

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• Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not. His body is given to him, its sustenance is not. His mind is given to him, its content is not. To remain alive, he must act, and before he can act he must know the nature and purpose of his action. He cannot obtain his food without a knowledge of food and of the way to obtain it. He cannot dig a ditch-or build a cyclotron-without a knowledge of his aim and of the means to achieve it. To remain alive, he must think

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Men, Thinking

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.96, Penguin

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• Give sustenance, Allah. Give sustenance to me.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Giving

  Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.231, A&C Black

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• To me, working is a form of sustenance, like food or water, and nearly as essential.

  Katharine Graham

  Work, Water, Essentials

  Katharine Graham (1998). “Personal History”, Vintage Books

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• Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Drawing, Battle, Life Is

  Reinhold Niebuhr (2015). “Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics: (Library of America #263)”, p.138, Library of America

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• There, I was just a secretary-shaped confederation of atoms, fighting the inevitability of mediocrity and decay. But here, in the Juliaverse... energy was never lost, merely converted from one form to another. Here, I took butter and cream and meat and eggs and I made delicious sustenance.

  Julie Powell

  Fighting, Eggs, Atoms

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• There's no sustenance in the past.

  Violette Leduc

  Past

  Violette Leduc (1965). “La bâtarde: an autobiography”

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• He does not refuse sustenance to the one who speaks ill of Him. How then could He refuse sustenance to the one whose soul is over flowing with love for Him?

  Rabia Basri

  Wisdom, Islamic, Soul

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• I define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued; when they can give and receive without judgment; and when they derive sustenance and strength from the relationship.

  Brené Brown

  Inspirational, Motivational, Friendship

  Brené Brown (2015). “Rising Strong: How the Ability to Reset Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.182, Spiegel & Grau

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• I am a child of the Enlightenment. I think irrational belief is a dangerous phenomenon, and I try to consciously avoid irrational belief. On the other hand, I certainly recognize that it's a major phenomenon for people in general, and you can understand why it would be. It does, apparently, provide personal sustenance, but also bonds of association and solidarity and a means for expressing elements of one's personality that are often very valuable elements. To many people it does that. In my view, there's nothing wrong with that.

  Noam Chomsky

  Children, Mean, Thinking

  Source: chomsky.info

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• When more of the people's sustenance is exacted through the form of taxation than is necessary to meet the just obligations of government and expenses of its economical administration, such exaction becomes ruthless extortion and a violation of the fundamental principles of free government.

  Grover Cleveland

  Patriotic, Government, People

  Second Annual Message, December 1886.

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• I try not to have a day pass where I don't read something from the Bible. It's like my sustenance to me.

  Lauryn Hill

  Trying

  "Queen of Hip Hop". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 18, 2000.

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• Currently, more than 4.7 million African Americans receive Social Security benefits, and nearly 8 million people with disabilities depend on Social Security for their daily sustenance.

  Chaka Fattah

  People, African American, Benefits

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• It's interesting to fantasize having a man sink his teeth into your neck for sustenance, knowing that it isn't going to be terribly painful but rather very exciting

  Frank Langella

  Men, Knowing, Interesting

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• This was the door to both sustenance and sanity. And we were each other's key.

  Suzanne Collins

  Keys, Doors, Gale

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• The Biblical world-view is the only one that accepts the reality of evil and suffering while giving both the cause and the purpose, while offering God-given strength and sustenance in the midst of it.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Biblical, Reality, Offering

  Ravi Zacharias (2009). “Zacharias 2 in 1-Jesus Among Other Gods & Deliver Us from Evil”, p.66, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Exactly like everything around us, we are made of the same elements of this earth and are totally dependent on this earth for our sustenance.

  Bryan Kest

  Elements, Earth, Made

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