Sustain Quotes

“If we can stay with the tension of
opposites long enough —sustain it,
be true to it—we can sometimes
become vessels within which the
divine opposites come together and
give birth to a new reality.”
― Marie-Louise von Franz

“Be like the sun who fell in love with the moon and shared all his light.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Fantasy, an unflagging optimism is necessary for a writer at all stages of this rough game. A kind of madness is therefore necessary, when there is every logical reason for a state of depression and discouragement. Perhaps the fact that I can react with utter gloom to this is what keeps me from being psychotic and keeps me merely neurotic. I am doing quite a good day's work today. But I am also aware of the madness that actually sustains me, and I am not made more comfortable or happy by it.”
― Patricia Highsmith

“Speaking for myself, I am only true when I'm alone. As a child, I always feared that I was about to fall off the face of the earth at any minute. Why do the clouds keep afloat when everything else drops to the ground? The explanation is simple: the gravity is less than the force of air that sustains the clouds. Clever, don't you think? Yes, but sooner or later they fall in the form of rain. That is my revenge.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

“Sometimes the very things that we’re expending our lives to sustain are the very things that are killing our ability to live. And against our blind and frequently raging protests, these are the very things that God let’s die so that we can live.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“In Tantric tradition, Shiva and Shakti or Purusha and Prakriti represent the two fundamental forces that sustain the universe; all that exists is an interplay of these forces.”
― Anupama Garg, The Tantric Curse

“In paying attention to our wellbeing, we address the needs of our environment - the society that we live in and our planet. Sustainability depends on community - when we learn to be happily reliant on each other, we're less likely to turn to material consumption to meet our emotional needs.”
― Louisa Thomsen Brits, The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well

“To advance, however far, is profitless unless the ground gained can be consolidated, or the momentum sustained.”
― Ludovic Kennedy

“I let his voice be my comfort. It bore no trace of pain or self-pity, carrying only good humor and softness and just the tiniest hint of jazz. I lived on it as if it were oxygen. It was sustaining, and it was always enough.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

“It is in the best interest of the rich to preserve poverty.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Whatever GOD creates, GOD sustains.”
― TemitOpe Ibrahim

“The distance between you and your destination can be set to zero only by your courage to act and by your determination to sustain this action till the end!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“We just need to hang in there a little longer, spend a little more of our energy... Breathe...”
― Melita Tessy, Battle of the Spheres: Crust, Mantle and Core

“Your job cannot sustain you, only your calling can”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Imagine life as a journey, and you’re only allowed so many things in your backpack. What are you going to carry with you? Do the things you carry sustain you in some way?”
― Sheba Karim, Mariam Sharma Hits the Road

“Lovers are food for each other to sustain their lives”
― Munia Khan

“I would rather tell myself what I don't know than what I do know. This helps me sustain my passion to learn rather than my inclination to rest on my laurels.”
― Jeffrey G. Duarte

“To rely on our own energy to sustain us is a ‘set-up’ that will be rather quickly followed by a ‘falling down.’ And to avoid either, I must engage God.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Sustained research will lead you to discovery.”
― Steven Magee

“The journey of food, from forest or field to plate to being, is full of wonder and magic. It grows, nourishes, and sustains us in ways that are both miraculous and often taken for granted. Becoming attentive and, as an inevitable result, grateful deepens our awareness of and appreciation for life and the responsibility that we each have to care for the world around us.”
― Carrie Ciula, The Little Book of Big Life Change: A Nine-Part Journey to Feeling Whole

“God sustains the spirit of the soul from the day of birth until moment of death.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Climate change will result in mass migrations of humans out of areas that can no longer sustain life and into naturally abundant areas.”
― Steven Magee

“For what is love if not it is truly tender...Love is sheltering, love is sustaining. Love is not proud... for it knows not how to resist but to joyfully surrender.....”
― Jayita Bhattacharjee

“Rules of Sustainability; ascertain, attain, sustain, repeat.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, SuaaS : Sustainability as-a-Service

“Retain, maintain or do whatever else it takes to sustain.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, SuaaS : Sustainability as-a-Service

“The same faith used to obtain the positive results hoped for, is used to keep away the negative things we dread and disapprove.”
― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

“You can not use faith to obtain and then apply fear and worry to sustain. Whatever faith has acquired demands the same to keep and sustain”
― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

“The future of sustainable financing is not just about people, technology and profits; but strong will to enable generations sustain.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Responsible Financing

“There are those desperate times when the only thing that’s sustaining our belief is the absence of a more convincing belief.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Don't wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own..”
― Nancy Lavoie