#nourish

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die. ↗

— Plato

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The Young Women's Christian Association is nourished by its roots in Christianity and, at the same time, over the years, it's been enriched by beliefs and values from all kinds of places, even, in fact, strengthened by our diversity. ↗

— Patricia Ireland

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That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings. ↗

— John Ruskin

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The feeling of your baby taking nourishment from your body for the first time is amazing, and it remains the most touching moment of my life. ↗

— Laura Schlessinger

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When we are happy, we forget to eat. Then happiness is a primary need, even more important for life than nourishing the body. ↗

— Rossana Condoleo

#happiness-as-nourishment #importance-of-being-happy #pursuing-happiness #soul-searching #life

People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in 'em as food. ↗

— Dorothy Gilman

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Passion is of the nature of seed, and finds nourishment within, tending to a predominance which determines all currents towards itself, and makes the whole life its tributary. ↗

— George Eliot

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There is more food in a pennyworth of bread than in a gallon of ale. ↗

— Joseph Livesey

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Differ though we might with Christianity's view of what precisely our souls need, it is hard to discredit the provocative underlying thesis, which seems no less relevant in the secular realm than in the religious one--that we have within us a precious, childlike, vulnerable core which we should nourish and nurture on its turbulent journey through life. ↗

— Alain de Botton

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Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. 'Forbidden' is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. It's there to nourish your body. ↗

— Valerie Bertinelli

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