Thirst Quotes - Page 8

• The eternal spring is hidden in this living bread for our life's sake, although it is night. It is here calling out to creatures; and they satisfy their thirst, although in darkness, because it is night. This living spring that I long for, I see in this bread of life, although it is night.

  John of the Cross

  Spring, Night, Bread Of Life

  Saint John of the Cross, Kieran Kavanaugh (1991). “The collected works of Saint John of the Cross”, I C S Publications, Institute of Carmelite Studies

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• As clouds are blown away by the wind, the thirst for material pleasures will be driven away by the utterance of the Lord's name.

  Sarada Devi

  Wind, Names, Clouds

  "Women Saints Of East And West: Sri Sarada Devi (The Holy Mother) Birth Centenary Memorial", RamaKrishna Vedanta Centre, (p. 119), 1955.

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• "If any man thirst, let him come and drink from the rivers of living water" (cf. John 7:38). Where shall he who thirsts come? To heretics where the fountain and river of water is in no way life-giving? Or to the Church, which is One?

  Cyprian

  Men, Cfs, Rivers

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• Towering genius disdains a beaten path ... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts for distinction.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Genius, Path, Distinction

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.14, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Like anyone else, a lot of what I do and how I think has been shaped by my family and my overall life experience. Many who know me say I am also defined by my curiosity and thirst for learning. I buy more books than I can finish. I sign up for more online courses than I can complete. I fundamentally believe that if you are not learning new things, you stop doing great and useful things. So family, curiosity and hunger for knowledge all define me.

  Satya Nadella

  Believe, Book, Thinking

  "Satya Nadella email to employees on first day as CEO". news.microsoft.com. February 4, 2014.

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• Meditation is the direct means of enjoying the greatest happiness and is the only means to quench the thirst for happiness on earth.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Mean, Meditation, Earth

  Mahesh Yogi (Maharishi.) (1962). “Meditation: easy system propounded by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi”

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• Teach music and singing at school in such a way that it is not a torture but a joy for the pupil; instill a thirst for finer music in him, a thirst which will last for a lifetime.

  Zoltan Kodaly

  School, Joy, Singing

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• Light is everything in the world to men's eyes Light thirsts after light yes, the soul, twin to the stars moves through space to find, be made eternal by light and grasp, trembling, the sun a torch handed on from runner to runner through the millennia.

  Gunvor Hofmo

  Stars, Moving, Eye

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• The thirst of soul is sweeter than the wine of material things, and the fear of spirit is dearer than the security of the body.

  Khalil Gibran

  Fear, Wine, Soul

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

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• I came, then, to serve my Church first of all, and the whole world, that is, every person I find along my way. I serve and I will give of myself unto death so that there will be no distance between speaking and doing, so that the people will never again say, 'there is a chasm between us and the leaders' and word spread that the Church is far from her people. I know very well that our people are good and that they want from us today to go to them, to seek them out wherever they are, to search out the lost and return them joyfully to the fold. They hunger and thirst for the Word of God.

  Metropolitan Ephraim Kyriakos

  Spiritual, Distance, People

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• Another novelty is the tea-party, an extraordinary meal in that, being offered to persons that have already dined well, it supposes neither appetite nor thirst, and has no object but distraction, no basis but delicate enjoyment.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Party, Tea, Novelty

  Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2004). “The Physiology of Taste”, p.326, Penguin UK

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• As the days go on toward July, the earth becomes dry and all the flowers begin to thirst for moisture. Then from the hillside, some warm, still evening, the sweet rain-song of the robin echoes clear, and next day we wake up to a dim morning; soft flecks of cloud bar the sun's way, fleecy vapors steal across the sky, the southwest wind blows lightly, rippling the water into little waves that murmur melodiously as they kiss the shore.

  Celia Thaxter

  Summer, Sweet, Song

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• Only few know what righteousness is. It is righteous to suffer for your own foolishness. When you sin, it is righteous to bear the consequences of your sin without complaining. Saying what you mean and what is on your heart when you deal with other people, that is righteous. One who hungers and thirsts for righteousness will be filled-and being filled with righteousness is something very great.

  Johan Oscar Smith

  Life Changing, Heart, Mean

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• I was supremely happy, for I had seen. Nothing could ever be the same. I have drunk at the clear and pure waters and my thirst was appeased. ...I have seen the Light. I have touched compassion which heals all sorrow and suffering; it is not for myself, but for the world. ...Love in all its glory has intoxicated my heart; my heart can never be closed. I have drunk at the fountain of Joy and eternal Beauty. I am God-intoxicated.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Truth

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• Capitalism and the thirst for profit without limits of the capitalist system are destroying the planet...Climate change has placed all humankind before a great choice: to continue in the ways of capitalism and death, or to start down the path of harmony with nature and respect for life.

  Evo Morales

  Choices, Energy, Climate

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• A man shares his days with hunger, thirst, and cold, with the good times and the bad, and the first part of being a man is to understand that.

  Louis L'Amour

  Men, Firsts, Good Times

  Louis L'Amour (2009). “The Sky-Liners and Galloway (2-Book Bundle)”, p.212, Bantam

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• The truth is that the scientific value of Polar exploration is greatly exaggerated. The thing that takes men on such hazardous trips is really not any thirst for knowledge, but simply a yearning for adventure. ... A Polar explorer always talks grandly of sacrificing his fingers and toes to science. It is an amiable pretention, but there is no need to take it seriously.

  H. L. Mencken

  Adventure, Sacrifice, Men

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• I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.

  Francois Rabelais

  Wine, Drink

  Francois Rabelais (2014). “Gargantua and Pantagruel”, p.20, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The true end of education is not only to make the young learned, but to make them love learning; not only to make them industrious, but to make them love industry; not only to make them virtuous, but to make them love virtue; not only to make them just, but to make them hunger and thirst after justice.

  John Ruskin

  Education, Justice, Hunger And Thirst

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• I think that hell essentially is separation from God forever. And that is the worst hell that I can think of. But I think people have a hard time believing God is going to allow people to burn in literal fire forever. I think the fire that is mentioned in the Bible is a burning thirst for God that can never be quenched.

  Billy Graham

  Believe, Hard Times, Thinking

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• So is the savage buffalo, especially delighting in dark places, where he can wallow in the mud and slake his thirst without much trouble; and here also we find the wild pig.

  John Hanning Speke

  Dark, Pigs, Savages

  John Hanning Speke (2007). “Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile”, p.25, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Man loves because he is Love. He seeks Joy, for he is Joy. He thirsts for God for he is composed of God and he cannot exist without Him.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Love Is, Men, Joy

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Jan 15, 2017

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• [My] hunger and thirst was, and still remains: How do I get people who hate poetry to love me?

  Lemon Andersen

  Motivation, Hate, Inspiration

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• "The people" is that massive portion of a society that lives by its pathetic subjection to sheer immediacy or self-obviousness, and that therefore uncritically seizes upon the most simplistic and abstract ways of filling its vacuous self-consciousness. Not philosophy but dogma and rhetoric, not rationality but indoctrination and conditioning, provide the cultural junkfood by which the Many perfunctorily slake their thirst and hunger.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Self, People

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• You forget what it was like. You'd swear on your life you never will, but year by year it falls away. How your temperature ran off the mercury, your heart galloped flat-out and never needed to rest, everything was pitched on the edge of shattering glass. How wanting something was like dying of thirst. How your skin was too fine to keep out any of the million things flooding by; every color boiled bright enough to scald you, any second of any day could send you soaring or rip you to bloody shreds.

  Tana French

  Life, Rip, Fall

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