- Craving
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- Nov 07, 2020
Appetites Quotes
Hunger, restraint, and everything in between.
These quotes examine appetite as more than hunger — a guard against excess, a guide alongside passions and affections, or a temptation the faithful are urged to resist.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Dissipate
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- Nov 07, 2020
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many people submit to excessive appetites without realizing that they do not need to eat so much food.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
The private interest of the individual would not be sufficiently provided for by reasonable and cool self-love alone; therefore the appetites and passions are placed within as a guard and further security, without which it would not be taken due care of.
- Hunger
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.
- Empathy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Lord is well aware of our mortality. He knows our weaknesses. He understands the challenges of our everyday lives. He has great empathy for the temptations of earthly appetites and passions.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be a human being is to be in a state of tension between your appetites and your dreams, and the social realities around you and your obligations to your fellow man.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have enormous appetites for both food and love, and yet there's junk food and also junk love.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.
- Found
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- Nov 07, 2020
After months of want and hunger, we suddenly found ourselves able to have meals fit for the gods, and with appetites the gods might have envied.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020