Quotes About Nourishment

Human kindness was like a sun shining upon him, and he flourished like a plant in good soil.

If the entire week is a battlefield, reading the Bible is sort of like that parachute with the box of reserves that come in the middle of the war: food and water and the toothbrush and toilet paper.

Give a man food, and he can eat for a day. Give a man a job, and he can only eat for 30 minutes on break.

When we learn to eat properly we begin to rebuild our bodies and to fulfill our purpose on this planet to grow in health, creativity, wisdom, and compassion.

You know the wisdom is reflected in the knowledge when it's manifested; If not fed in due time, the mind is anorexic.

Wisdom is to the soul as food is to the body.

Wisdom is like the rain. Its source is limitless, but it comes down according to the season.

Fun, fighting, and feeding! These are the three indispensable elements of the boy's world.

If [you think] thought cannot be manufactured, stop eating for twenty days and see how you feel. Begin today and count. ... Even thought is manufactured by food. There is no doubt about it.

My interest in how people lived was nourished quite literally by the food I shared with them.

Take away grievances from some people and you remove their reasons for living; most of us are nourished by hope, but a considerable minority get psychic nutrition from their resentments, and would waste away purposelessly without them.

Praise is the best diet for us, after all.

Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.

Many people feed others who can't feed them, while they completely fail to nourish those who really desire to feed them.

Paying attention to what nourishes and stimulates your heart, soul, and imagination leads to listening to your instincts. In turn, listening to your instincts jump-starts the process of creating the fabric of your destiny. Like a designer sewing a garment, you take the vision within you and bring it to life in a suit to be worn for your next season of life. You are instinctively best at inventing what is in your inventory!

And so it has taken me all of sixty years to understand that water is the finest drink, and bread the most delicious food. and that art is worthless unless it plants a measure of splendor in people's hearts.

Cecilia Kapua Lindo sums up this sentiment in "Grateful to All Beings": From time to time I too am misled by the myth That exalts the independent, self-made man. Upon hearing the voice of the Enlightened One, Any air of self-importance Is deflated, like an empty balloon. And I become aware that my existence depends Upon the many lives that are slain for me Each time I sit down to eat my meal.

Beauty isn't something on the outside. It's your insides that count! You gotta eat green stuff to make sure you're pretty on the inside.

Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks!

If our sense of who we are is defined by feelings of neediness and insecurity, we forget that we are also curious, humorous and caring. We forget about the breath that is nourishing us, the love that unites us, the enormous beauty and fragility that is our shared experience in being alive.

the reservoir of air deep underground, the great lung of the world, the source of all our nourishment.

While this perhaps does not constitute air sharing in the strictest sense, there is camaraderie derived from the awareness that all our air comes from the same source, for the dispensers are but the exposed terminals of pipes extending from the reservoir of air deep underground, the great lung of the world, the source of all our nourishment.

For the filling stations are the primary venue for social conversation, the places from which we draw emotional sustenance as well as physical.

In my special place, room service could only consist of my husband making me a breakfast of eggs, avocados, and hummus. And coffee with milk.