Top 1200 Spiritual Hunger Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

With 'Hunger Games,' it's about people rising up to fight against a corrupt government that controls them.

... I feel far more hunger pangs when I am denied mental nourishment than I do at the loss of meals.

...unless the exchange be in love and kindly justice, it will but lead some to greed and others to hunger.

We all have a relentless yearning to attach and connect, to love and be loved. This relationship hunger is the fiercest longing of the human soul.

This is why very often you find educated people in the media who look at spiritual books but they are so identified with their thought process, they don't get it. They write reviews or articles and they miss the whole point. They can't see the essence. It's not their fault; it's not them personally. It's the human condition and its mind-identified state. And intelligence in itself doesn't help. You can have two or three Ph.D.s; it doesn't get you any closer to spiritual realization. In fact, you might be more distant.

Hunger is a powerful persuader if it happens, and it's conceivable that it could happen. Country people have always known this.

There is no such thing as the State And no one exists alone; Hunger allows no choice To the citizen or the police; We must love one another or die.

I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.

One of the truths of our time is the hunger deep in people are over the planet for coming into relationship with each other.

I had nothing and I was still changed. Like a costume, my numbness was taken away. Then hunger was added.

Hunger is the worst of diseases, the body the greatest of pains; if one knows this truly, that is Nirv?na, the highest happiness.

Acting is usually regarded as a wholly narcissistic pursuit but there really is a hunger in me to unravel the human condition.

Most of the people are no thicker than Formica, yet they hunger obscurely for some continuity with the place and with each other.

Focusing on one thing can be tough, and people with fewer options are more apt to concentrate on what they're doing. There's probably something to hunger.

What can still that hunger of the heart which sickens the eye for beauty, and makes sweet-scented ease an oppression?

I think the question is, how do we live with change? Change in our friends, change in our lovers? Change in me and change in my body, from the stroke. Things have changed this plane of consciousness. We've tried to keep things the same. It causes suffering. This suffering is another step in your spiritual life, in your spiritual journey.

I told my cellmates about the oppression of the whites and apartheid. I helped organize hunger strikes and the like in my prison.

As long as superstition and ignorance prevail, humanity will fall short of eradicating war, poverty, and hunger.

I know very few young people, but it seems to me that they are all possessed with an almost fatal hunger for permanence.

The spiritual task of life is to feed hope. Hope is not something to be found outside of us. It lies in the spiritual life we cultivate within. The whole purpose of wrestling with life is to be transformed into the self we are meant to become, to step out of the confines of our false securities and allow our creating God to go on creating. In us.

The only way you're going to make it is to have a hunger for success and a will to win. That's something that's always pushed me.

Reality Hunger is more than thought-provoking; it's one of the most beautiful books I've read in a long time.

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.

Certainty is rarely if ever possible and we increase the likelihood of getting things wrong if we succumb to the hunger for it.

I'm going to keep loving football. That's one thing I'm most proud of: my hunger and desire for the game has not stopped.

We cannot sleep peacefully while babies are dying of hunger and the elderly are without medical assistance

Every human being in that case resembles Christ in his loneliness; and that is the hardest part, that's real hunger.

In the new science of the twenty-first century, not physical force but spiritual force will lead the way. Mental and spiritual gifts will be more in demand than gifts of a physical nature. Extrasensory perception will take precedence over sensory perception. And in this sphere woman will again predominate.

Just as the law of gravitation existed before its discovery and would exist if all humanity forgets it, so it is with the laws that govern the spiritual world. The moral, ethical and spiritual relations between soul and soul and between individual spirits and the Father of all spirits were there before their discovery and would remain even if we forget them.

Whatever one considers art to be, there is in many people a hunger to express themselves creatively and to feel authentic in doing that.

Be as delicate as possible. If communication accomplishes something on the gross but damages something on the level of feeling then it is a spiritual loss! The feeling is more important for life. Nourishment of the feeling level is the basis for growth of the spiritual holistic value. Delicate behaviour on the surface should be such as to nourish, uphold and enhance the Transcendental value where feelings merge into a common source.

What can I do to help? I am asking my senator to support political action to end hunger in the greatest country on this planet.

When you are already eating as cheaply and meagerly as possible, any raise in cost can quickly plunge you and your family into hunger.

I think there is an enormous appetite for great roles for women. You can see that clearly with things like 'The Hunger Games.'

Fire, as we have learned to our cost, has an insatiable hunger to be fed. It is a nonliving force that can even locomote itself.

Simply restricting portions of the same disease-causing foods does not resolve the symptoms of toxic hunger.

Approval makes the world go round, even if many of us want to transcend our hunger for it.

America and Americans always rise to the occasion. If we say we are going to stamp out hunger, I believe we will.

It was the greatest contribution towards the whole of human race, made by China, is to prevent its 1.3 billion people from hunger.

To hunger and thirst after righteousness is when nothing in the world can fascinate us so much as being near God.

Who would prefer peace to the glory of hunger and thirst, of wading through mud, and dying in the service of one's country?

It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.

For nothing keeps a poet In his high singing mood Like unappeasable hunger For unattainable food.

[B]ut he had lived in a world in which, as he said, no one who loved ideas need hunger mentally.

I really liked playing a vampire. Their hunger is insatiable. Even when they eat someone, it's never enough.

God releases more of His power and presence according to the measure of our hunger for Him.

While we yearn for peace, we live in a world burdened with hunger, pain, anguish, loneliness, sickness, and sorrow.

PSG has moulded me into becoming a fighter and that player who has the hunger to come to a new club and fight for a position.

If we expose the Chinese to our freedoms, it may create a greater hunger for democracy, reform and liberties in China.

Many of us incorrectly assume that a spiritual life begins when we change what we normally do in our daily life. We feel we must change our job, our living situation, our relationship, our address, our diet, or our clothes before we can truly begin a spiritual practice. And yet it is not the act but the awareness, the vitality, and the kindness we bring to our work that allows it to become sacred.

At the end of Requiem all I wanted to do was get a DV camera and just do a small film. But then the hunger comes back.

There is nothing you can buy, achieve, own, or rent that can fill up that hunger inside for a sense of fulfillment and wonder.

O to be self-balanced for contingencies, to confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do.

If there used to be 100 people at a major working on a record, now there are 18, but they're the good ones. There's a lean, mean hunger.

I want nothing to do with any religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in hunger, filth, and ignorance.

If he is convicted, Dr. Kevorkian says he will die a martyr's death by going on a hunger strike.

The anguished suspense of watching the lips you hunger for, framing the words, the death sentence, of sheer triteness!

There is a hunger in this digital age to hear authors together, to participate in programs, to just be in a place, a community space.

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.

[On the racial backlash about Hunger Games casting]: "People should have ignored the five racist idiots.