#nourish

Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#greed #material #nourishment #food

Businesses, like babies and books, need nurturing, time, energy, love, planning and, yes, money to develop, grow and prosper. ↗

— Rachael Bermingham

#business #development #energy #growth #inspirational-quotes

Don't nourish your fears more than you nourish your hopes. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#fears #happiness #hopes #inspirational #life

Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking. ↗

— Clifton Fadiman

#any #gross #including #insomnia #itself

The first law of nature is self-preservation. Cut off that which may harm you. But if it is worth preserving, and is meaningful, nourish it and have no regrets. Ultimately, this is true living and love of self...from within. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#law #living #love #nature #nourish

For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience. ↗

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

#both #experience #game #human #human experience

It is our duty to see that our future citizens are well born; that they are properly nourished, and are reared in that environment most likely to develop in them their full capacity and powers. ↗

— Arthur Capper

#capacity #citizens #develop #duty #environment

My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#nourishes #reason

The ruling classes today nourish the conviction that national hatreds and rivalries are inevitable. ↗

— Charles Trevelyan

#conviction #hatreds #inevitable #national #nourish

A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of that kind of independence that usually terminates in aristocracy. ↗

— Mercy Otis Warren

#banish #domestic #general #independence #kind