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• I have pondered long, and I know now that only the pure of heart forgive the thirst that leads to dead waters. And only the sure of foot can give a hand to him who stumbles.

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart, Hands, Feet

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Confronted by too much emptiness ... the brain invents. Loneliness creates company as thirst creates water. How many sailors have been wrecked in pursuit of islands that were merely a shimmering?

  Margaret Atwood

  Loneliness, Islands, Water

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• Journey over all the universe in a map, without the expense and fatigue of traveling, without suffering the inconveniences of heat, cold, hunger, and thirst.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Journey, Suffering, Maps

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1856). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha”, p.56

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• Praise the name of baseball. The word will set captives free. The word will open the eyes of the blind. The word will raise the dead. Have you the word of baseball living inside you? Has the word of baseball become part of you? Do you live it, play it, digest it, forever? Let an old man tell you to make the word of baseball your life. Walk into the world and speak of baseball. Let the word flow through you like water, so that it may quicken the thirst of your fellow man.

  W. P. Kinsella

  Baseball, Eye, Men

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• Nothing is more human than for man to desire naturally things impossible to his nature. It is, indeed, the property of a nature which is not closed up in matter like the nature of physical things, but which is intellectual or infinitized by the spirit. It is the property of a metaphysical nature. Such desires reach for the infinite, because the intellect thirsts for being and being is infinite.

  Jacques Maritain

  Men, Intellectual, Desire

  Jacques Maritain (2015). “Approaches to God”, p.72, Paulist Press

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• God, help me to see others not as enemies or as ungodly but rather as thirsty people. And give me the courage and compassion to offer your Living Water, which alone quenches deep thirst.

  Henri Nouwen

  Compassion, Giving, Water

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• Even at this stage, my preparations were like strapping on a parachute in an airplane that was about to crash; the whole time I was preparing to hurl myself out the door, I clung to the hope that something would happen at the last minute to forestall that terrible necessity I felt-not hostility, as psychiatric texts would say, or vengeful rage, or a desire for attention. This was done in secret, out of a need to alleviate pain which was as implacable as thirst.

  Tracy Thompson

  Pain, Airplane, Suicidal

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• What distinguishes success from failures is that the successes constantly thirst for new ideas and knowledge.

  Robin Sharma

  Success, Ideas, New Ideas

  Robin Sharma (2003). “MegaLiving: 30 Days To A Perfect Life”, p.4, Jaico Publishing House

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• Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily available form of chaos.

  Frank Herbert

  Peace, War, Impossible

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• The uncommitted share many of our core values, but if we do not live out those values in a compelling way, we will not awaken a thirst for their ultimate Source.

  Philip Yancey

  Way, Share, Source

  Philip Yancey (2014). “Vanishing Grace Study Guide: Whatever Happened to the Good News?”, p.24, Zondervan

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• Men, I'm getting out of Rome. Anyone who wants to carry on the war against the outsiders, come with me. I can offer you neither honours nor wages; I offer you hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Anyone who loves his country, follow me

  Giuseppe Garibaldi

  Country, War, Men

  Guiseppe Guerzoni 'Garibaldi' (1882) vol. 1, p. 331. (The speech was not recorded verbatim.)

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• Thirst of wealth no quiet knows, But near the death-bed fierce grows.

  Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea

  Bed, Fierce, Quiet

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• Age-old question: Is the glass half empty or half full? Answer: Who cares? Does it really matter whether the glass is half full or half empty? The issue is whether it quenches your thirst.

  Larry Winget

  Glasses, Issues, Age

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• I tasted - careless - then -
  I did not know the Wine
  Came once a World - Did you?
  Oh, had you told me so -
  This Thirst would blister - easier - now

  Emily Dickinson

  Wine, World, Easier

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.133, Harvard University Press

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• One glass of water doesn't equal another. One may just appease the thirst, the other you may enjoy thoroughly. In Japan, people know about this difference.

  Jil Sander

  Japan, Differences, Glasses

  "No-frill thrills: Jil Sander is back". www.interviewmagazine.com. March 17, 2009.

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• Answers can suit the relative mind. In the dream we can be thirsty. But upon awaking from the dream, there's no thirst.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Yoga, Mind

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• Fear of failure is always a driver but the thirst for more is a good one too... So I think you need a little bit of both.

  Ronda Rousey

  Thinking, Mma, Needs

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• The drought was the very worst when the flowers that we'd grown together died of thirst.

  Taylor Swift

  Flower, Together, Worst

  Song: Clean, Album: 1989, 2014

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• Provocative. Striking. Rachel Resnick is a virtuoso on the page. Her fearless examination of the desperate thirst to find love is guaranteed to break your heart. Yet her cool-eyed analysis of the roots of this addiction inspires hope that through committed self-understanding, maybe each of us can change toxic patterns, whatever they may be.

  Samantha Dunn

  Heart, Love Is, Self

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• Thirst for victory leads to defeat; not tiring of defeat leads to victory.

  Yamaoka Tesshu

  Victory, Defeat, Tire

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• For me, the most disturbing aspect of the Republican political culture is how it puts its unquenchable thirst for power, domination and a radical ideology above facts, reason and the truth.

  Al Gore

  Political, Culture, Facts

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• First, the desert is the country of madness. Second, it is the refuge of the devil, thrown out into the "wilderness of upper Egypt" to "wander in dry places." Thirst drives man mad, and the devil himself is mad with a kind of thirst for his own lost excellence--lost because he has immured himself in it and closed out everything else. So the man who wanders into the desert to be himself must take care that he does not go mad and become the servant of the one who dwells there in a sterile paradise of emptiness and rage.

  Thomas Merton

  Country, Men, Egypt

  Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.21, Macmillan

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• There is no long interval between the sense of thirst and the trickling of the stream over the parched lip; but ever it is flowing, flowing past us, and the desire is but the opening of the lips to receive the limpid, and life-giving waters. No one ever desired the grace of God, really and truly desired it, but just in proportion as he desired it, he got it; just in proportion as he thirsted, he was satisfied.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Past, Long, Giving

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• When our life is a continuous trial, the moments of respite seem only to substitute the heaviness of dread for the heaviness of actual suffering; the curtain of cloud seems parted an instant only that we may measure all its horror as it hangs low, black, and imminent, in contrast with the transient brightness; the waterdrops that visit the parched lips in the desert bear with them only the keen imagination of thirst.

  George Eliot

  Life, Clouds, Imagination

  George Eliot (1869). “Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.259

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• To demand of strength that it should not express itself as strength, that it should not be a desire to overcome, a desire to throw down, a desire to become master, a thirst for enemies and resistances and triumphs, is just as absurd as to demand of weakness that it should express itself as strength.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Enemy, Desire, Demand

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo”, p.45, Vintage

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