Thirst Quotes - Page 5

• Capitalism and the thirst for profit without limits of the capitalist system are destroying the planet...Climate change has placed all humankind before a great choice: to continue in the ways of capitalism and death, or to start down the path of harmony with nature and respect for life.

  Evo Morales

  Choices, Energy, Climate

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• I was supremely happy, for I had seen. Nothing could ever be the same. I have drunk at the clear and pure waters and my thirst was appeased. ...I have seen the Light. I have touched compassion which heals all sorrow and suffering; it is not for myself, but for the world. ...Love in all its glory has intoxicated my heart; my heart can never be closed. I have drunk at the fountain of Joy and eternal Beauty. I am God-intoxicated.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Truth

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• There is nothing like lust. Lust may be said to be the most powerful passion. Fortunately, we have but one thing which is more powerful. If the thirst for truth were weaker than passion, how many of us in the world would be able to follow the way of righteous?

  Gautama Buddha

  Powerful, Passion, Meditation

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• The spiritual thirst that is latent in everybody can never come to a place of fulfillment unless people begin to think of each other as potential brothers and sisters.

  Malidoma Patrice Some

  Spiritual, Brother, Thinking

  "Remembering Our Purpose". Interview with Sarah van Gelder, www.context.org. 1993.

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• It's a physical urge, huger and stronger than thirst or sex. Halfway back on the left side of my head there is a spot that yearns, that longs, that pleads for the jolt of a bullet. I want that rage, that fire, that final empty rip. I want to be let out of this dark cavern, to open myself up to the ease of not-living. I am tired of sorrow and struggle and worry. ... I want to turn out the last light.

  Jean Hegland

  Sex, Rip, Struggle

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• Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.

  Gautama Buddha

  Suicide, Buddhist, Blessing

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• Let's choose today to quench our thirst for the 'good life' we thinks others lead by acknowledging the good that already exists in our lives. We can then offer the universe the gift of our grateful hearts.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Thanksgiving, Good Life, Women

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• Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.
  But your ears thirst for the sound of the heart's knowledge.
  You would know in words that which you have always known in thought.
  You would touch with your fingers the naked body of the dreams.

  Khalil Gibran

  Dream, Heart, Night

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• We don't get enough pampering. If we were once the only child of an adoring mother, we developed a taste for it; if not, we developed a thirst for it.

  Barbara Holland

  Mother, Children, Pampering

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• I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.

  Karolina Kurkova

  Careers, Acting, Artistic

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• Everywhere I go on the campaign trail, I meet voters with a real thirst for a healthy discussion of the issues. Ultimately, people don't care whether an issue comes from the left or the right. What they want to talk about are ideas that lift America up and make us better. It's what I call 'Vertical Politics'.

  Mike Huckabee

  Real, Ideas, America

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• Only few know what righteousness is. It is righteous to suffer for your own foolishness. When you sin, it is righteous to bear the consequences of your sin without complaining. Saying what you mean and what is on your heart when you deal with other people, that is righteous. One who hungers and thirsts for righteousness will be filled-and being filled with righteousness is something very great.

  Johan Oscar Smith

  Life Changing, Heart, Mean

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• The best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst.

  Socrates

  Hunger, Drink, Appetite

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• To read Lucia St. Clair Robson is to learn while being thoroughly entertained. Last Train from Cuernavaca puts us through the tragic violence and political treachery of the Mexican Revolution and its consequences so intimately that we feel hunger, lust, thirst, grief, and saddle sores, and admire anew the awesome durability and courage of the people of Mexico-- especially the women.

  James Alexander Thom

  Grief, People, Mexican

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• Who knows what will happen or where I will be sent, yet already I have given a great many things away, expecting to be told to pack nothing, except the prayers which, with this thirst, I am slowly learning.

  Mary Oliver

  Prayer, Great Men, Expecting

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• People who have achieved great success are not necessarily more skillful or intelligent than others. What separates them is their burning desire and thirst for knowledge. The more one knows, the more one achieves.

  Robin Sharma

  Intelligent, People, Desire

  Robin Sharma (2003). “MegaLiving: 30 Days To A Perfect Life”, p.76, Jaico Publishing House

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• While it is all very well to distinguish happiness that is transient from that which is lasting, between ephemeral and genuine happiness, the only happiness it is meaningful to speak of when a person is dying from thirst is access to water.

  Dalai Lama

  Meaningful, Water, Dying

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• Natural thunder heralds the wetness of fresh water
  high clouds
  to quench the thirst of fields gone dry and parched,
  a messenger of blessed rain,
  but this was as dry as hell must be.
  My distraught perception refused
  to believe it, because of the insane
  suddenness with which it sounded, swelled and hit,
  and how casually it came
  to murder my child.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Children, Rain, Believe

  "The First Long Range Artillery Fire On Leningrad". Poem by Anna Akhmatova, 1993.

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• My plight has given me a strange kind of wealth, the most important kind. I value each moment that is not spent in pain, desperation, hunger, thirst, or loneliness.

  Steven Callahan

  Pain, Loneliness, Important

  Steven Callahan (2002). “Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea”, p.127, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I have so many other interests: Writing, acting, directing, real life, I need little pieces of it all to satisfy me. The thirst is deep and I am complicated.

  Traci Lords

  Real, Writing, Acting

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• Originality is the most deadly mirage in all of art. You can chase it from now until doomsday, and you'll only find yourself lost and dying of thirst.

  Caitlín R. Kiernan

  Art, Finding Yourself, Dying

  Caitlín R. Kiernan's blog entry (greygirlbeast.livejournal.com), July 24, 2005.

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• [My] hunger and thirst was, and still remains: How do I get people who hate poetry to love me?

  Lemon Andersen

  Motivation, Hate, Inspiration

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• Great stories agree with our worldview. The best stories don't teach people anything new. Instead the best stories agree with what the audience already believes and makes the members of the audience feel smart and secure when reminded how right they were in the thirst place.

  Seth Godin

  Smart, Believe, People

  Seth Godin (2009). “All Marketers are Liars: The Underground Classic That Explains How Marketing Really Works--and Why Authenticity Is the Best Marketing of All”, p.14, Penguin

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• As a tree, even though it has been cut down, is firm so long as its root is safe, and grows again, thus, unless the feeders of thirst are destroyed, the pain (of life) will return again and again.

  Max Muller

  Pain, Cutting, Roots

  Max Muller (2013). “Sacred Books of the East: Including Selections from the Vedic Hymns, Zend-Avesta, Dhammapada, Upanishads, the Koran, and the Life of Buddha”, p.164, Lulu Press, Inc

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• As the days go on toward July, the earth becomes dry and all the flowers begin to thirst for moisture. Then from the hillside, some warm, still evening, the sweet rain-song of the robin echoes clear, and next day we wake up to a dim morning; soft flecks of cloud bar the sun's way, fleecy vapors steal across the sky, the southwest wind blows lightly, rippling the water into little waves that murmur melodiously as they kiss the shore.

  Celia Thaxter

  Summer, Sweet, Song

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