Quotes About Nourishment

Food is about nurturing: not only physical but also emotional nurturing.

Cooking is one of the great gifts you can give to those you love. It says "you're important enough to me to spend the time and effort to cook for you.

Self-care is about eating nourishing foods, taking care of your spiritual and emotional well-being, spending quality time with friends and family, or taking yourself away on retreat. No waiting until you've run yourself into the ground or you're running on empty. Your self-care needs to be ongoing and topped up on a regular basis with self-care treats.

There are three reasons for breast-feeding: the milk is always at the right temperature; it comes in attractive containers; and the cat can't get it.

Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.

Art is a staple, like bread or wine or a warm coat in winter. Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food.

The Word of God and the grace of Christ in the promises are our daily support, and the constant nourishment of our souls.

And when my spirit wants no stimulus or nourishment save music, I know it is to be sought in cemeteries: the musicians hide in the tombs; from grave to grave flute trills, harp chords answer one another.

one would say yes, if not every day, at least fairly regularly), whether only for yourself or also for others (often only for yourself, but with care, as if you were cooking also for others; and sometimes also for others, but nonchalantly, as if you were cooking only for yourself),

My father always said there are four things a child needs: plenty of love, nourishing food, regular sleep, and lots of soap and water. After that, what he needs most is some intelligent neglect.

There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others.

To grow in Christ was to grow in wisdom. To be nourished in the way of Jesus was to be nourished in an ancient way of seeing that is deep in the human soul, an inner truth that is not the preserve of one tradition over against another but a wisdom that precedes and is deeper than our divisions.

Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free.

Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.

Fasting from any nourishment, activity, involvement or pursuit—for any season—sets the stage for God to appear. Fasting is not a tool to pry wisdom out of God's hands or to force needed insight about a decision. Fasting is not a tool for gaining discipline or developing piety (whatever that might be). Instead, fasting is the bulimic act of ridding ourselves of our fullness to attune our senses to the mysteries that swirl in and around us."—Dan B. Allender, PhD

We are all eaters of souls.

We mushrooms are used to being kept in the dark and fed shit three times a day.

loading a plate with steak and bread and a slab of meatloaf as thick as a Diana Gabaldon novel

Say it with me now, brothers and sisters: Lunch is the most important meal

lunch (not breakfast) is the most important meal of the day

The living cell almost always contains, locked in its interior, the visible or invisible products of its physiological activity or its nourishment.

To live, a man needs food, water, and a sharp mind.

Tea instead of gin will warm the heart.

And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself that you tasted as many as you could.