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Nourishing yourself in a way that helps you blossom in the direction you want to go is attainable, and you are worth the effort. -- Deborah Day
Inside of us is a place that is all-knowing, all mighty, which is a fragment of God. Nourishing, healing elements with in us. There is a spark in each one of us. -- Wayne Dyer
Nourishing the soul is the process of drinking at the life stream, coming back to one's true self, embracing the whole of one's experience - good, bad, or ugly; painful or exalted; dull or boring. -- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Nourishing spirituality means cultivating the inward space, the basis of which all things can be brought together. It means overwhelming deadness and stagnation and living reality in terms of values, inspiration, and symbols of higher meaning. -- Leonardo Boff
This is nourishing, redemptive; we become less alone inside. -- David Foster Wallace
You can't enjoy life if you're not nourishing your body. -- Tracey Gold
Work is the most nourishing thing so far in my life. -- Carol Kane
For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience. -- A. Bartlett Giamatti
When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It's nourishing; it's rejuvenating. -- Aimee Bender
I tend to read things that are a little more on the nourishing side. But if I don't enjoy something, I'll put it down. -- Josh Radnor
We do take seriously our responsibility, and growing ability, to educate people about healthy eating and giving them greater access to nourishing and affordable fresh food. -- John Mackey
I really love storytelling, and I love the stories as they reveal themselves. It's an incredibly nourishing process; it's probably the closest I come to having a religion. -- Alan Ball
I'm sort of getting into the idea of nourishing your inner aspect and doing that by investing in your family and making a meal and creating time together. -- Gwyneth Paltrow
You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination. -- Larry McMurtry
What we want with all our hearts will determine in large degree whether we can claim our right to the companionship of the Holy Ghost, without which there can be no spiritual nourishing. -- Henry B. Eyring
I don't have a preference between theatre and film; I like to do both. But I will say that there's something about theatre that is more nourishing and sustaining than film ever can be. -- Willem Dafoe
I tend to use really basic creams, and I like to put an oil on, like an emu oil from Australia. It's from the emu, and it's really nourishing. I prefer an oil to a cream. -- Cate Blanchett
I'm not performing now. What I do now is listen to music all day long. Listening is very nourishing to me. I might go back to perform, I might make another record. I've got a record half finished. -- Michael Nesmith
A lot of modern comedies are difficult to watch too, because they're so ironic and so detached and so quote-unquote clever. They kind of keep you at arm's length. They can be really funny, but they're not really nourishing. -- Ty Burrell
We had idyllic summer holidays, building sandcastles with my father on the beach at Bridlington. It might sound strange, but I think that secure cocoon of familial love was so nourishing, it gave me the strength to live life on my own. -- Kiki Dee
I believe there is a relationship between having an interest in the arts and the behaviour of society as a whole. Some politicians find it difficult that the arts is a weapon of happiness... Politics is often about deprivation rather than the opening up of ideas and nourishing creative endeavour. -- Richard Eyre
I tour alone. There's no sound check, no back up. I stay with the hosts; I am in a family home and it's really nourishing. I just have to remember after the show not to run out into the living room in my pyjamas. Every day, it's a new relationship being built. It's odd and wonderful. -- Jane Siberry
The level of dynamism is a matter of how fertile the country is in coming up with innovative ideas having prospects of profitability, how adept it is at identifying and nourishing the ideas with the best prospects, and how prepared it is in evaluating and trying out the new products and methods that are launched onto the market. -- Edmund Phelps
I always start the day with a cup of hot water and lemon - I find it really cleanses and hydrates me. I have very sensitive, dry skin, so I have to be careful about what I put on my face. My must-haves are Dermalogica cleansing gel and L'Or De Vie Creme Riche by Dior, which is thick and nourishing. -- Eva Green
My theory is that literature is essential to society in the way that dreams are essential to our lives. We can't live without dreaming - as we can't live without sleep. We are 'conscious' beings for only a limited period of time, then we sink back into sleep - the 'unconscious.' It is nourishing, in ways we can't fully understand. -- Joyce Carol Oates
Revenge is sweet but not nourishing. -- Mason Cooley
This is nourishing, redemptive we become less alone inside. -- David Foster Wallace
Hate, in the long run, is about as nourishing as cyanide. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Meditation is a way for nourishing and blossoming the divinity within you. -- Amit Ray
Healthy and nourishing food was the only alpha and omega of rural economy. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Bread that must be sliced with an axe is bread that is too nourishing. -- Fran Lebowitz
Holiness requires continual effort on our part and continual nourishing and strengthening by the Spirit. -- Jerry Bridges
The nourishing fruit of the historically understood contains time as a precious but tasteless seed. -- Walter Benjamin
The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values. -- Lawrence Durrell
A slice of bread eaten is a million times more nourishing than a loaf of bread imagined. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
For introverts, to be alone with our thoughts is as restorative as sleeping, as nourishing as eating. -- Jonathan Rauch
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing - not just a waiting. -- Susan Sontag
I doubt if any doctor could recommend a more nourishing breakfast for a working girl in a hurry. -- Marilyn Monroe
I know that many ailments can be healed with food by nourishing your body instead of taking drugs. -- Laura Prepon
I have had to eat my own words many times, and I have found it a very nourishing diet. -- Winston Churchill
Artists and writers have to understand and live the truth that what we are doing is nourishing the world. -- Ariel Gore
In football, hate can be a beautiful thing; sustaining and nourishing, quite unlike other manifestations of an otherwise destructive emotion. -- Nicky Campbell
The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ has the nourishing power to heal starving spirits of the world. -- Boyd K. Packer
When it all comes together, a creative life has the nourishing power we normally associate with food, love and faith. -- Twyla Tharp
Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be. -- Joyce Carol Oates
I am struck by how sharing our weakness and difficulties is more nourishing to others than sharing our qualities and successes. -- Jean Vanier
I have always been caught by the pull of the unremarkable, by the easily missed, infinitely nourishing beauty of the mundane. -- Tana French
For quiet, solitary and observant children create their own world and live in it, nourishing their imaginations on the material at hand. -- Beatrix Potter
Here about the beach I wandered, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of Time. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
I think sharing experience makes everything better. When people get talking about how they've overcome something or how they haven't, it's nourishing. -- Marc Maron
Giving birth and nourishing, Bearing yet not possessing, Working yet not taking credit, Leading yet not dominating, This is the Primal Virtue. -- Laozi
I see a good marriage as being like two tall trees growing beside each other, each nourishing the grace of the other. -- Lawrence Fagg
There are two types of relationships: nourishing and toxic. Do not keep the toxic. What interaction does light have with darkness? None! -- Les Brown
Man needs spiritual expression and nourishing... even in the prehistoric era, people would scrawl pictures of bison on the walls of caves. -- Fernando Botero
just because people are fat, it doesn't mean they are well fed. The cheapest foods are the fattening ones, not the most nourishing. -- Fannie Lou Hamer
Read. Read all the time. Read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life. -- David McCullough
You must feed your mind even as you feed your body, and to make your mind healthy, you must feed it nourishing, wholesome thoughts. -- Norman Vincent Peale
As artists, we must learn to be self-nourishing. We must become alert enough to consciously replenish our creative resources as we draw on them. -- Julia Cameron
By the nourishing spirit of the temple we can learn the reality, the power and the hope of the Savior's Atonement in our personal life. -- Neill F. Marriott
For is there any practice less selfish, any labor less alienated, any time less wasted, than preparing something delicious and nourishing for people you love? -- Michael Pollan
Chivalry is a poor substitute for justice, if one cannot have both. Chivalry is something like the icing on the cake, sweet but not nourishing. -- Nellie L. McClung
For is there any practice less selfish, any labor less alienated, any time less wasted, than preparing something delicious and nourishing for people you love?" -- Michael Pollan
Press close, bare-bosomed Night! Press close, magnetic, nourishing Night! Night of south winds! Night of the large, few stars! Still, nodding Night! Mad, naked, Summer Night! -- Walt Whitman
Friend, hast thou considered the "rugged, all-nourishing earth," as Sophocles well names her; how she feeds the sparrow on the housetop, much more her darling man? -- Thomas Carlyle
Loving ourselves means loving our community. When we are capable of loving ourselves, nourishing ourselves properly, not intoxicating ourselves, we are already protecting and nourishing society. -- Nhat Hanh
Learn to lead in a nourishing manner. Learn to lead without being possessive. Learn to be helpful without taking the credit. Learn to lead without coercion. -- Laozi
It's very nourishing and collaborative - kind of the true essence of what one would want an artistic collaboration to be [the collaboration with Oprah Winfrey]. -- Ava DuVernay
A good film is always nourishing. It's not about it being hopeful or bleak; it's about how it touches you, how it moves or stirs you. -- Lisa Yuskavage
The warm and radiant yes of the heart is perfect, like the sun, in bringing all things to life and nourishing all that is truly human. -- John Welwood
God wants to be praised for nourishing and cherishing, for God cherishes all creatures. God is not only the creator, but is also the sustainer and nourisher. -- Martin Luther
Serving democracy and nourishing the common good is, for the media, something that requires not only attacking corrupt secrecies in a society, but also defending non-corrupt communication. -- Rowan Williams
Without awareness, the current of life cedes its sense of control to other deceptive agents that take you into a life that is toxic rather than nourishing. -- Garey Gordon
Falling in love with another man is like falling into a vast vat of yourself. For some men this is ultimately nourishing, for others . . . it is drowning. -- Perry Brass
We are innately creative beings capable of writing a love story worth living, and we cannot afford to miss out on the opportunity to experience nourishing relationships. -- David Simon
Each moment, breath is nourishing millions and millions of cells in our body.Listen to its language, interpret its words and enter into the mystery of life. -- Amit Ray
I love and approve of myself. I love and approve of my body. I feed it nourishing foods and beverages. I exercise it in ways that are fun. -- Louise Hay
Unfortunately most easily-digested entertainment has as much actual content as a Spongebob Squarepants episode, so the trick is to try to fit actual nourishing content into enjoyable entertainment. -- Jeffrey Lewis
The truth is, the family is much more creatively nourishing because you're playing on a full keyboard. Whereas when you're single, you're just playing the upbeat jazzy tunes. -- Jerry Seinfeld
Without creative, independently thinking and judging personalities the upward development of society is as unthinkable as the development of the individual personality without the nourishing soil of the community. -- Albert Einstein
Even the best Christian that ever lived is not acting on his own steam--he is only nourishing or protecting a life he could never have acquired by his own efforts. -- C. S. Lewis
War is in truth a disease in which the juices that serve health and maintenance are used for the sole purpose of nourishing something foreign, something at odds with nature. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Make a conscious effort to surround yourself with positive, nourishing, and uplifting people -- people who believe in you, encourage you to go after your dreams, and applaud your victories. -- Jack Canfield
The mind needs stories as much as the body needs food. There are junk stories and more nourishing ones. The food we eat becomes our bodies, assimilated stories form our identities -- David Loy
I like to think about the bestseller list as, "This is the medicine cabinet of a very sick country." Let me look and see what they're reading that isn't nourishing them. -- Sandra Cisneros
When you spend your life doing what you love to do, you are nourishing your Soul. It matters not what you do, only that you love whatever you happen to do. -- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
I've found you can go on writing in the dark, and that the act of writing itself, that mysterious, dangerous, intoxicating, absorbing, nourishing magician's trick, that act of creation is its own light. -- Janette Turner Hospital
The new wrinkle is that escalating advances in technology are nourishing the narcissistic ego the way chicken manure nourishes a rose bush, while exploding worldwide population is allowing its effects to multiply geometrically. -- Tom Robbins
Truth is just as essential to nourishing the mind as food is to nourishing the body. The more fully you live each moment in truth, the more powerful and effective those moments will be. -- Ralph Marston
though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All human professions, institutions, and activities must be integral with the earth as the primary self-nourishing , self-governing and self-fulfilling community. To integrate our human activities within this context is our way into the future. -- Thomas Berry
I felt the beginning of a passion, hopeless in the long run, but very nourishing, for identifying myself with people who were not my own, and whose lives were governed by ideas alien to mine. -- V. S. Pritchett
Without nourishing our own souls, we can't nourish the world, for we cannot give what we do not have. As we attend to our souls, we emanate invisibly and involuntarily the light we have received. -- Marianne Williamson
My father had always said there are four things a child needs: plenty of love, nourishing food, regular sleep, and lots of soap and water. After that, what he needs most is some intelligent neglect. -- Ivy Baker Priest
Love yourself not in some egocentric, self-serving sense but love yourself the way you would love your friend in the sense of taking care of yourself, nourishing yourself, trying to understand, comfort, and strengthen yourself. -- Frederick Buechner

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