Quotes About Nourishment

We eat living food. Through our food we learn constantly how to live on this earth. We are constantly supported by all phenomenal currents of life; we are lived by all beings. That is the truth. We are lived by whom and whatever we take, by their teachings that guide us. One way to live is to show all of their natures through our existence. It is different from our usual way of continuously exploring our capacities for what we really want to do.

Anything that terrible had to be healthy.

Drink the milk.

Too many of us take great pains with what we ingest through our mouths, and far less with what we partake of through our ears and eyes.

The body needs many different foods to remain healthy. And the mind needs many different ideas to remain sharp.

The two great constants of life. Food and death.

He liked her. And he brought her food.

We will live on mangoes and love.

sleep, working out, healthy food, cooking, time off, weekends away, going to church, being present with the kids, a sense of control over our money, meaningful work that doesn't consume us, time to piddle, time with family and close friends, and time to just hang out.

if one couldn't be loved, one could at least be warm, comfortable and full, always.

And now we eat. The eponymous eating. Don't want butter, don't want salt. Dinner is thinner but it's not my fault.

The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.

We want to live as people chosen, blessed, and broken, and thus become food for the world.

When we invite friends for a meal, we do much more than offer them food for their bodies. We offer friendship, fellowship, good conversation, intimacy, and closeness. When we say, 'Help yourself… take some more… don't be shy… have another glass…' we offer our guests not only our food and drink but also ourselves. A spiritual bond grows, and we become food and drink for one another.

As the Beloved ones, our greatest fulfilment lies in becoming bread for the world. That is the most intimate expression of our deepest desire to give ourselves to each other

This invitation to a meal is an invitation to intimacy with God.

as a Christian, I am called to become bread for the world: bread that is taken, blessed, broken and given.

There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony.

Alles, was unserer körperlichen Ernährung und Pflege dient, lassen wir uns mehr kosten als unsere geistige Ernährung.

I was describing the other day my success in solitary and distant woodland walking outside the town. I do not go there to get my dinner, but to get that sustenance which dinners only preserve me to enjoy, without which dinners are a vain repetition.

Our table was a large piece of freshly peeled birch bark, laid wrong side up, and our breakfast consisted of hard-bread, fried pork, and strong coffee well sweetened, in which we did not miss the milk.

I make it my business to extract from Nature whatever nutriment she can furnish me, though at the risk of endless iteration. I milk the sky and the earth.

To many creatures there is in this sense but one necessary of life, Food.

It is hard to provide and cook so simple and clean a diet as will not offend the imagination; but this, I think, is to be fed when we feed the body; they should both sit down at the same table. Yet perhaps this may be done. The fruits eaten temperately need not make us ashamed of our appetites, nor interrupt the worthiest pursuits. But put an extra condiment on your dish, and it will poison you.