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If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force. -- Manuel Puig
Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel. -- Solomon
Are wars anything but the means whereby a nation is nourished, whereby it is strengthened, whereby it is buttressed? -- Marquis de Sade
The Lord needed the strength of the women of this Church as the seeds of the Restoration were planted and nourished. -- Sheri L. Dew
Man's true taproots are nourished in the sequence of generations, and he loses his taproots in disrupted developmental time, not in abandoned localities. -- Erik Erikson
We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn. -- Alfred Adler
Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were best-sellers. -- James Broughton
It is women who love horror. Gloat over it. Feed on it. Are nourished by it. Shudder and cling and cry out-and come back for more. -- Bela Lugosi
Only a well-rounded intellect, a spirit nourished in the eternal sources of intelligence and culture, of justice and wisdom, is a safeguard against both indifference and skepticism. -- Ameen Rihani
As a child that is born into the world requires nourishment, so also the Christ that is born within is a babe and requires to be nourished to the full stature of manhood. -- Max Heindel
I think perhaps we all cook to feed some kind of hunger in ourselves. I am nourished by being surrounded by family and friends, by creating something delicious for them, by nurturing them. -- Jane Green
It takes a childlike heart to feel the promptings of the Spirit, to surrender to those commands, and to obey. That is what it takes to be nourished by the good word of God. -- Henry B. Eyring
It is our duty to see that our future citizens are well born; that they are properly nourished, and are reared in that environment most likely to develop in them their full capacity and powers. -- Arthur Capper
My parents' selfless affection and dedication nourished and prepared me to receive the love of my guru or spiritual father, Swami Prabhupada. My parents prepared the soil in which my guru sowed the seeds of his compassion. -- Radhanath Swami
As you submit to God more and more, you will get accustomed to being nourished by the power of truth. He is so holy that He cannot lie. God reveals His truth to His people through the Holy Spirit. -- Monica Johnson
The Young Women's Christian Association is nourished by its roots in Christianity and, at the same time, over the years, it's been enriched by beliefs and values from all kinds of places, even, in fact, strengthened by our diversity. -- Patricia Ireland
Those of us who preach the Scriptures, along with being nourished by it ourselves, have to figure out along with our congregations how we can incarnate the gospel in our community, or we will preach to a religious ghetto. -- John Ortberg
I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded. -- Simone Weil
I have always loved and avidly read the novels of Jack London, Jules Verne and Ernest Hemingway. The characters depicted in their books, who are brave and resourceful people embarking on exciting adventures, definitely shaped my inner self and nourished my love for the outdoors. -- Vladimir Putin
All my habits through life have been singularly removed from any condition of reliance on others, and the feeling - right or wrong - that aloneness is my proper position has prevailed since my early childhood, no doubt nourished and strengthened by many and quick-following bereavements. -- Dorothea Dix
We treasure the word of God not only by reading the words of the scriptures, but by studying them. We may be nourished more by pondering a few words, allowing the Holy Ghost to make them treasures to us, than to pass quickly and superficially over whole chapters of scripture. -- Henry B. Eyring
Well, you sort of get out of the pool room, you get out of the Marine Corps, you get out and read some literature, you become involved with people who also want to know and are ready to share some ideas about literature and thoughts, and it becomes nourished that way. -- Harvey Keitel
I don't think I have spiritual beliefs in the structured sense - but I believe in the absolute necessity of spirit and a healthy spiritual life. It grew inside me by itself, which is surely the very nature of spirit, and instinctively I protected and nourished it. I also absorbed spirituality by osmosis. -- Michael Leunig
Sometimes, you just have to clear your head and get out to see other things. It is very important to be nourished. I love to go to museums and galleries, I like to see theatre, film, dance - anything creative. It doesn't promise you inspiration, but it nourishes your creative soul, and that's good. -- Marc Jacobs
It is important that we relish the food we eat. If we cannot do this, but eat mechanically, our food does not do us that good it should, and we fail to be nourished and built up by it as we otherwise would be, if we could enjoy the food we take into the stomach. -- Ellen G. White
Wickedness is nourished by lust. -- Aristotle
Desires are nourished by delays. -- Thomas Draxe
Genius is nourished from within and without. -- Robert Aris Willmott
Evil is nourished and grows by concealment. -- Virgil
Our entire being is nourished by color. -- Hans Hofmann
Burning hearts are not nourished by empty heads -- R. C. Sproul
Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear is born in uncertainty and nourished by pessimism. -- Lois Wyse
I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The soul of the world is nourished by people's Happiness. -- Paulo Coelho
Mingle often with good people to keep your soul nourished. -- Anthony Douglas
People are deeply nourished by the process of creating wholeness. -- Christopher Alexander
Prayer is the way the life of God is nourished. -- Oswald Chambers
It is the starved imagination, not the well-nourished, that is afraid. -- E. M. Forster
There is a difference between a well-instructed congregation and a well-nourished one. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
jealousy is conceived only in insecurity and must be nourished in fear. -- Maya Angelou
It is the starved imagination, not the well nourished, that is afraid. -- E. M. Forster
Many battles have been fought and won by soldiers nourished on beer. -- Frederick the Great
The more the heart is nourished with happiness, the more it is insatiable. -- Gabrielle Roy
Love starts with a gut feeling, but that gut feeling better be nourished. -- Vanessa Paradis
Into the day as by dream I swim / To the music of nourished meaning. -- Dejan Stojanovic
The darkness of a day elapsed, of a day nourished with our sad blood. -- Pablo Neruda
An artist must learn to be nourished by his passions and by his despairs, -- Francis Bacon
I do believe that ideas ripen quickly when nourished by the blood of martyrs. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Men are kids at heart. They want to be nourished and pet like a dog. -- Nicki Minaj
The word of God is the food by which prayer is nourished and made strong. -- Edward McKendree Bounds
No flower of art ever fully blossomed save it was nourished by tears of agony. -- Isadora Duncan
I alone am different from the others, because I am nourished by the great mother. -- Laozi
there couldn't be war, unless lies were believed. War has to be nourished by lies. -- Margaret Deland
The power of works of art still continues to be secretly nourished by imitation... kitsch -- Theodor Adorno
Think against your feelings; unmask the unbelief they have nourished; let evangelical thinking correct emotional thinking. -- J. I. Packer
Nurtured, nourished people, who love themselves and care for themselves, are the delight of the Universe. -- Melody Beattie
Each good thought that you have encouraged and nourished is your life's true work of art. -- Sri Chinmoy
As humans we are born of the Earth, nourished by the Earth, healed by the Earth. -- Thomas Berry
Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel. -- Solomon
Creativity needs to be taken care of. It's like a big baby that needs to be nourished. -- Susan Sontag
We are nourished by our relationships and generosity in return to our kindness and compassion for others. -- Gyalwa Dokhampa
Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as it is nourished with kindness, sympathy, and understanding. -- Mary Lou Retton
The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more blood. -- Maya Angelou
Our relationships are nourished and shaped by the commitment we express through our actions. Don't just speak; ACT! -- Steve Maraboli
Work and life are an interconnected adventure, guided by the heart, winged with spirit, and nourished by the soul. -- Ron Rubin
You're learning to be nourished by the love you give, not by the validation offered in response to your giving. -- Matthew Kahn
As I've gotten older, I find I am able to be nourished more by sorrow and to distinguish it from depression. -- Robert Bly
I have followed after the truth, across this windy planet upon which every person is nourished by one or another lie. -- James Branch Cabell
The creative instincts, the love force must be nourished with every beat of our hearts until they overbalance the destructive instincts. -- Gladys Taber
Love is a tender plant; when properly nourished, it becomes sturdy and enduring, but neglected it will soon wither and die. -- Hugh B. Brown
Your life is constantly nourished by your thoughts. Whatever the direction your life is moving, your thoughts have led you there. -- Ralph Marston
Love is nourished only by sacrifices, and the more a soul refuses natural satisfactions, the stronger and more disinterested becomes her tenderness. -- Therese of Lisieux
The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources--because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
Give thinking the opportunity to be your everyday meal; you get nourished by the best success nutrients. You will never be deficient! -- Israelmore Ayivor
Self-respect to be nourished in the mind of the pupil, is one of the most valuable results of a well conducted education. -- William Godwin
The goodness of the world grew like moss in cracks, she thought. It grew, somehow, with hidden roots, nourished by something unseen. -- K. J. Bishop
The things you absorb you will ultimately secrete. It's all out there and available for you to enjoy...and be nourished by. -- Tom Waits
He said little about his dream but he nourished it in his heart as the best place for a dream to grow. -- Elizabeth Yates
Love is preserved by wisdom. Destroyed by demand, tested by doubt, nourished by longing. It blossoms with faith and grows with gratitude. -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Mans true taproots are nourished in the sequence of generations, and he loses his taproots in disrupted developmental time, not in abandoned localities. -- Erik Erikson
Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like 'excuse me', and other such simple courtesies. -- Bill Vaughan
Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness. -- Gaston Bachelard
Wind feeds the fire, and wind extinguishes: The flames are nourished by a gentle breeze, Yet, if it stronger grows, they sink and die. -- Ovid
When our inner child is not nurtured and nourished, our minds gradually close to new ideas, unprofitable commitments and the surprises of the Spirit. -- Brennan Manning
The image of your goal properly planted and constantly nourished with positive, expectant thought-energy will cause your goal to develop into a burning desire. -- Bob Proctor
If we want to be sincere, we must admit that there is a well-nourished love and an ill-nourished love. And the rest is literature. -- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Goals are only ever a guide; a winding, changing path. It's your heart that will really keep you on tack... and nourished along the way. -- Rasheed Ogunlaru
Maternity is a glorious thing, since all mankind has been conceived, born, and nourished of women. All human laws should encourage the multiplication of families. -- Martin Luther
Education in the art of dance is education of the whole man â?? his physical, mental and emotional natures are disciplined and nourished simultaneously in dance. -- Ted Shawn
Ay, but hearken, sir; though the chameleon Love can feed on the air, I am one that am nourished by my victuals, and would fain have meat. -- William Shakespeare
The human spirit is more powerful than any drug and THAT is what needs to be nourished: with work, play, friendship, family. THESE are the things that matter. -- Robin Williams
Whatsoever you hide goes on growing, and whatsoever you expose, if it is wrong it disappears, evaporates in the sun, and if it is right it is nourished. -- Rajneesh
All authentic art is conceived at a sacred moment and nourished in a blessed hour; an inner impulse creates it, often without the artist being aware of it. -- Caspar David Friedrich
As a man may be eating all day, and for want of digestion is never nourished, so these endless readers may cram themselves in vain with intellectual food. -- Isaac Watts
Our thinking tends to be hazy, hasty, narrow, or sprawling-causal terms for impulsive. Just like anything else, thinking skills require upkeep. If they aren't nourished, they'll fade away. -- David Perkins
she delighted in being of the same substance as them, and in knowing that when she died her flesh would nourish other lives as they had nourished her. -- Philip Pullman
The general goodness, which is nourished in noble hearts makes every one think that strength of virtue to be in another whereof they find assured foundation in themselves. -- Philip Sidney
Let the states of equilibrium and harmony exist in perfection, and a happy order will prevail throughout heaven and earth, and all things will be nourished and flourish. -- Confucius
Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves? Who knows what women's intelligence will contribute when it can be nourished without denying love? -- Betty Friedan
Democracy is born in dirt, nourished by the digging up and turning over as much of it as can be brought within reach of a television camera or subpoena. -- Lewis H. Lapham
Peace cultures thrive on and are nourished by visions of how things might be, in a world where sharing and caring are part of the accepted lifeways for everyone. -- Elise M. Boulding
Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into men's heads by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings. -- Francis Bacon
It is the place of renewal and of safety, where for a little while there will be no harm or attack and, while every sense is nourished, the soul rests. -- May Sarton
Someday your life will be over, no matter how much attention you give to your health. Will you look back with regret, because you nourished your body but starved your soul? -- Billy Graham
There is nothing so useful to man in general, nor so beneficial to particular societies and individuals, as trade. This is that alma mater, at whose plentiful breast all mankind are nourished. -- Henry Fielding
Religion must be loved as a kind of country and nursing-mother. It was religion that nourished our virtues, that showed us heaven, that taught us to walk in the path of duty. -- Joseph Joubert
The Soul of the World is nourished by people's happiness. And also by unhappiness, envy, and jealousy. To realize one's Personal Legend is a person's only real obligation. All things are one. -- Paulo Coelho
You are what you eat." Nothing else. Never. If you are nourished with cow's milk and later with herbs, you'll become someone whose whole life is good only for being exploited by others. -- George Ohsawa
There is no greater disaster in the spiritual life than to be immersed in unreality, for life is maintained and nourished in us by our vital relation with realities outside and above us. -- Thomas Merton
Many battles have been fought and won by soldiers nourished on beer, and the King does not believe that coffee-drinking soldiers can be relied upon to endure hardships in case of another war. -- Frederick the Great
College education gives you the chance to earn money and live thereupon. But, umless it destroys certain illusions that are nourished by the common level of mankind, your lives will not be happy. -- Sai Baba
Ironically, many of people, including Osama bin Laden and the mujahedeen, were, in fact, nourished by the United States in the early eighties in its efforts to drive the Soviets out of Afghanistan. -- Edward Said
Though man's feeling for the other-worldly often has recourse to solitude, solitude does not foster its development; rather, it is nourished by communion, to which the church is more propitious than the cemetery. -- Andre Malraux
Love cannot thrive simply by being offered. Sooner or later it must be accepted and reciprocated. It must be seen for what it is and nourished according to its needs, or it will die. -- Cameron Dokey
Ironically, many of these people, including Osama bin Laden and the mujahedeen, were, in fact, nourished by the United States in the early eighties in its efforts to drive the Soviets out of Afghanistan. -- Edward Said
it is, in truth, the most absurd of all suppositions, that a human being can be educated, or even nourished and brought up, without imbibing numberless prejudices from every thing which passes around him. -- Anna Letitia Barbauld
To make a collaboration succeed there can be no visible contusions or abrasions. For the collaboration to succeed, the relationship must be nourished and survive. That is absolutely essential for a collaboration to succeed. -- Van Dyke Parks
Good, honest, hardheaded character is a function of the home. If the proper seed is sown there and properly nourished for a few years, it will not be easy for that plant to be uprooted. -- George Amos Dorsey

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