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If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.
If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.
He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If read more
Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.
Hunger is the handmaid of genius
Hunger is the handmaid of genius
A hungry man is not a free man.
A hungry man is not a free man.
I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how read more
I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all.
Cruel as death, and hungry at the grave.
Cruel as death, and hungry at the grave.
Obliged by hunger and request of friends.
Obliged by hunger and request of friends.
I suspect that hunger was my mother.
[Lat., Famem fuisse suspicor matrem mihi.]
I suspect that hunger was my mother.
[Lat., Famem fuisse suspicor matrem mihi.]