To be at peace with self, to find company and nourishment in self-this would be the test of the free and productive psyche.
Remember, too, that at a time when people are very concerned with their health and its relationship to what they eat, we have handed over the responsibility for our nourishment to faceless corporations.
No local church can afford to go without the encouragement and nourishment that will come to it by sending away its best people.
Music is nourishment, and a comforting elixir. Music multiplies the beauty of life and all its values.
Imagine the consequences of having the first woman prime minister who is the milk snatcher. [Margaret Thatcher] takes away the nourishment of the nation.
Poetry allies itself with beauty - a supreme union - but never uses it as its ultimate goal or sole nourishment.
A day cannot live in infamy without the nourishment of rage. Let's have rage.
The living cell almost always contains, locked in its interior, the visible or invisible products of its physiological activity or its nourishment.
Guys need attention. They need that nourishment, that little stroke of the ego that gets them by every now and then.
All true opinions are living, and show their life by being capable of nourishment; therefore of change. But their change is that of a tree not of a cloud.
Reason without learning is like the untilled soil, or like the human body that lacks nourishment.
Continued work and application form my soul's nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live.
In the poorest cottage are Books: is one Book, wherein for several thousands of years the spirit of man has found light, and nourishment, and an interpreting response to whatever is Deepest in him.
The first thing brought forth by the study of any religion, ancient or modern, is that it is based upon Fear, born of it, fed by it — and that it cultivates the source from which its nourishment is derived.
I discovered suddenly that alienation, exploitation of man by man, under-nourishment, relegated to the background metaphysical evil which is a luxury.
Humans are tuned for relationship. The eyes, the skin, the tongue, ears, and nostrils-all are gates where our body receives the nourishment of otherness.
Art was, seriously, the only thing I'd ever wanted to own. It has always been for me a stable nourishment. I use it. It can change the way that I feel in the mornings.
My real emphasis is on the farmers who are taking care of the land, the farmers who are really thinking about our nourishment.
When we look at things as simple as food, it's not about just nourishment and sustaining our life, it is really the seed of our ancestor.
The practice of diplomacy, I have found, is sometimes like eating soup with a fork: much activity yielding little nourishment.
I've always loved to cook. It helps me to relax and gives me peace. It's my nourishment.
I believe in feeling connected. Love is something that grows, that comes from nourishment; it builds. But there is a great feeling that happens, that is telling you, I don't want to leave this room!
Food was celebration, conversation, and nourishment. The table is where the big decisions of the family are made and all the arguing takes place.
Food brings people together on many different levels. It's nourishment of the soul and body; it's truly love.
There is a young and impressionable mind out there that is hungry for information. It has latched on to an electronic tube as its main source of nourishment.
At no other time has Nature concentrated such a wealth of valuable nourishment into such a small space as in the cocoa bean.
If you will receive yourself in the fires of sorrow, God will make you nourishment for other people.
Internally, you experience rowing as a graphic microcosm of life - solitude, learning, work, rest, nourishment, sharing and ultimately challenge.
The past could liberate or imprison - it creates a nation's character, provides the nourishment or the poison a people imbibe in their very marrow.
Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.
If you follow the course of one man through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to get some nourishment from it.
The capital is become an overgrown monster; which, like a dropsical head, will in time leave the body and extremities without nourishment and support.
Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
A true personality . . . is like a robust organism that, with unconscious sureness, seeks out and digests the nourishment appropriate to it and vigorously rejects that which is unsuitable.
You eat canned tuna fish and you absorb protein. Then, if you're lucky, someone give you Dover Sole and you experience nourishment. It's the same with books.
Thought is the work of the intellect, reverie is its self-indulgence. To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse a poison with a source of nourishment.
Read at the level at which you want to write. Reading is the nourishment that feeds the kind of writing you want to do.
Art for me is a form of nourishment. I need the land. I need it.
Christ is the meat, the bread, the food of our souls. Nothing is in him of a higher spiritual nourishment than his love, which we should always desire.
When it comes to literal nourishment, the food we eat, life begets life.
To be alive in this beautiful, self-organizing universe -- to participate in the dance of life with senses to perceive it, lungs that breathe it, organs that draw nourishment from it -- is a wonder beyond words.
One can watch hours and hours of TV without actually losing interest, but, as with Chinese food, one is rarely left with much residue of nourishment.
Negative people deplete your energy. Surround yourself with love and nourishment and do not allow the creation of negativity in your environment.
... I feel far more hunger pangs when I am denied mental nourishment than I do at the loss of meals.
When there are starving people in the world, it seems wrong that so many of us Americans eat as much for entertainment as for nourishment.
We must never stop dreaming. Dreams provide nourishment for the soul, just as a meal does for the body.
Meditation is the antidote to all the poisons of your life. It is the nourishment of your authentic nature.
Centuries ago it may have been difficult for pregnant women and their children to get proper nourishment, probably leading to smaller - and therefore shorter-lived - adults.
When we know about our ancestors, when we sense them as living and as supporting us, then we feel connected to the genetic life-stream, and we draw strength and nourishment from this.
Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.
It's a mystery to me how anyone ever gets any nourishment in this place. They must eat their meals standing up by the window so as to be sure of not missing anything.
The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.
We are narrative creatures, and we need narrative nourishment-nar rative catechisms.
If you imitate the forms of a single artist through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to get some nourishment from them.
Pessimism is a form of mental dipsomania; it disdains healthy nourishment, indulges in the strong drink of denunciation, and creates an artificial dejection which thirsts for a stronger draught.
The Eucharist, although it is the fullness of sacramental life, is not a prize for the perfect but a powerful medicine and nourishment for the weak.
Reading-not occasionally, not only on vacation but everyday-gives me nourishment and enlarges my life in mysterious and essential ways.
For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.
The bitter pinecone may be eaten, The mist on high give nourishment. The whole world takes to go-and-getting; My way alone is difficult.
On the tree, Future, we build our nest; and in our solitude eagles shall bring us nourishment in their beaks!
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