Sustenance Quotes

• I have often, as an exercise and as a sustenance, painted before an object down to the smallest accidents of its visual appearance; but the day left me sad and with an unsatiated thirst. The next day I let the other source run, that of imagination, through the recollection of the forms and I was then reassured and appeased.

  

  Odilon Redon
  • Imagination
  • Exercise
  • Sad

• Women rely on friends. ... That's where we draw sustenance and find safety. We can count on our women friends when we need a good laugh or a good cry.

  

  Cokie Roberts
  • Good
  • Women
  • Friends

• The wisest among you is he whose sustenance is the fear of Allah.

  

  Umar
  • Fear
  • Inspiring
  • Fear Allah

• Human beings are of such nature that they should have not only material facilities but spiritual sustenance as well. Without spiritual sustenance, it is difficult to get and maintain peace of mind.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Mind
  • Nature
  • Spiritual

• The clich? that women, more consistently than men, turn inward for sustenance seems to mean, in practice, that women have richly defined the ways in which imagination creates possibility; possibility that society denies.

  

  Patricia Meyer Spacks
  • Men
  • Women
  • Society

• There's no sustenance in the past.

  

  Violette Leduc
  • Past
  • Sustenance

• In a loved one's beauty, there is solace, comfort in its presence, and the hope - no, the belief - the certainty that possession of so fine an ornament might be sustenance enough.

  

  Mary McGarry Morris
  • Belief
  • Loved
  • Solace

• Spirituality is an inner fire, a mystical sustenance that feeds our souls. The mystical journey drives us into ourselves, to a sacred flame at our center. The purpose of the religious experience is to develop the eyes by which we see this inner flame, and our capacity to live its mystery. In its presence, we are warmed and ignited. When too far from the blaze, we are cold and spiritually lifeless. We are less than human without that heat. Our connection to God is life itself.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Life
  • God
  • Live

• All the other industries will receive warmth and sustenance from khadi industry.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Receive
  • Industries
  • Sustenance

• Ours was a storytelling family even in pleasing times, and in those days my parents looked on words as our sustenance, rich in their flavor and wholesome for the soul.

  

  Natalie Kusz
  • Soul
  • Storytelling
  • Sustenance

• Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Man
  • Right
  • Sustenance

• A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man or woman who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether they be painter or ploughman.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Work
  • Man
  • Woman

• When I was exposed to the history and the cultural background of why women whose husbands die, why they have to become ascetic or live a life that is completely deprived of emotional or social or cultural sustenance, I was really shocked.

  

  Deepa Mehta
  • Emotional
  • Background
  • Exposed

• 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
  • Earth
  • Elements
  • Sustenance

• 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
  • Give
  • Another
  • Sustenance