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Quotes About Nourishment

Worries go down better with soup.
~ Jewish proverb
Chowder breathes reassurance. It steams consolation.
~ Clementine Paddleford, 1961
Homemade soup has extra nourishment that store-bought will never have. Love, broth, and salt can heal many things.
~ Terri Guillemets
Soup is liquid comfort.
~ Author Unknown
Tea is a cup of life.
~ Author Unknown
tea is comforting because it brings us down to earth— water, leaves, warmth it is earth, imbibed
~ Terri Guillemets
Tea patches heartbreak, sip by sip.
~ Terri Guillemets
When the boy is growing he has a wolf in his belly.
~ German proverb
Your body is a temple but only if you treat it as one.
~ Terri Guillemets
Breakfast, dinner, tea; in extreme cases, breakfast, luncheon, dinner, tea, supper, and a glass of something hot at bedtime. What care we take about feeding the lucky body! Which of us does as much for his mind? And what causes the difference? Is the body so much the more important of the two? By no means: but life depends on the body being fed, whereas we can continue to exist as animals (scarcely as men) though the mind be utterly starved and neglected.
~ Lewis Carroll
Someone has to stand up and say that the answer isn't another pill. The answer is spinach.
~ Bill Maher, 2007
A great deal has been written and said and sung in praise of green trees. And yet there are comparatively few green trees that are good to eat. Asparagus is probably the best of them, though celery is by no means to be despised.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Divine Providence has spread her table everywhere, not with a juiceless green carpet, but with succulent herbage and nourishing grass, upon which most beasts feed.
~ Thomas More (1478–1535)
My idea of a perfect snack? A carrot, gently coerced from the soil, carefully wiped on my jeans, and eaten fresh.
~ Annie Withey
FORK, n. An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.
~ Ambrose Bierce
If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.
~ Loren Eiseley
Can you do anything more fundamental than to raise food? Even Einstein has to eat.
~ Rex Stout (1886–1975)
Grandma always called her vegetable garden the Chapel — it brought her closer to God, was full of miracles, and fed the hungering of others.
~ Terri Guillemets
Gratitude is as important for feeding your soul as eating is important for feeding your body.
~ J.L.W. Brooks
The heart also needs to breathe, and the breath of the heart is none other than the remembrance of God. Without it, the spiritual heart dies. The very purpose of revelation and of scripture is to remind us that our hearts need to be nourished.
~ Hamza Yusuf
Vücudumuzdaki hücreler oksijene ihtiyaç duyarlar, bu yüzden nefes al?r?z ve nefesimiz kesilirse ya?ayamay?z. ??te bunun gibi, kalbin de teneffüse ihtiyac? vard?r ve kalbin nefesi Allah'? "anmaktan" ba?ka bir ?ey de?ildir. O olmadan manevi kalp hayatta kalamaz. ??te vahyin ve kutsal metinlerin varl?k sebebi de, bize kalplerimizin beslenmeye muhtaç oldu?u gerçe?ini hat?rlatmakt?r.
~ Hamza Yusuf
Food is not to enjoy. That's not the reason why you're eating it. That's why the Glutton eats. But someone who's serious about maintaining their health - they eat for health. We're literally digging our graves with our teeth.
~ Hamza Yusuf
Cells require oxygen, so we breathe. If we stop breathing, we die. The heart also needs to breathe, and the breath of the heart is none other than the remembrance of God. Without it, the spiritual heart dies. The very purpose of revelation and of scripture is to remind us that our hearts need to be nourished.
~ Hamza Yusuf
Your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, and you need to start taking care of it. This involves a combination of proper diet, exercise, and recreation.
~ Harold J. Sala