Quotes About Nourishment

All of my youth growing up in my Italian family was focused around the table. That's where I learned about love.

Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.

Throughout my life, I have tried to share my belief that getting and staying healthy doesn't have to feel like work. My life is not about deprivation; I don't diet or slave away in a gym. What I do is eat clean, nutritious, real food. I enjoy delicious meals with healthy fats, I eat until I am full and satisfied, and I remain thin.

When it becomes a revolutionary act to eat real food, we are in trouble.

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

Food is really and truly the most effective medicine.

Many of us think that compassion drains us, but I promise you it is something that truly enlivens us.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

The truth is that most marriages have food as a major player in them, and certainly mine does.

Food is strength, and food is peace, and food is freedom, and food is a helping hand to people around the world whose good will and friendship we want.

As a man may be eating all day, and for want of digestion is never nourished, so these endless readers may cram themselves in vain with intellectual food.

People who are meditating every day and involved in a serious spiritual practice don't usually wake up in the morning and want to rush out to eat a bunch of junk food.

I tell my retreat students that they need to remember two things: to eat what they want when they're hungry and to feel what they feel when they're not.

If you feel like eating, eat. Let your body tell you what it wants.

You have to be generous if you want to spend your time making someone else dinner. Even if you're charging, you're still giving.

I just want to sleep, and eat, and learn about what's going on in the world.

Oh, womanly sympathy, love AND food?" I said, laughing. "Don't want a lot, do you?

Cities and governments are but the flowering head of a plant whose stalk is the commonalty, and it is the commonalty whose roots are within the earth, drawing the necessary sustenance that maintains the flower.

I've tried praying. It gives me comfort. But not as much as a cup of tea and a ginger nut biscuit.

The voice of the goddess, the priestess, was nourishment, dripping with nectar, dark and holy. Terrifying succour.

As it happens, I partook of a very fine meal last night which filled me with energy and strength.

To help instill positive energy, read only materials that feed your soul and uplift your thoughts.

I haven't used my brain for so long, the poor thing is huddled in a corner, waiting to be fed.

food cooked without love was bad food.