Quotes About Nourishment

The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body.

Your skin is like a plant. You have to water it. Make sure it's hydrated, not just squeaky clean.

There's a great metaphor that one of my doctors uses: If a fish is swimming in a dirty tank and it gets sick, do you take it to the vet and amputate the fin? No, you clean the water. So, I cleaned up my system. By eating organic raw greens, nuts and healthy fats, I am flooding my body with enzymes, vitamins and oxygen.

In the natural life, we eat, we drink water, we give birth, we pay taxes. In the spiritual life, we can only reach it by faith.

The animal world seizes its food in masses little and big, and often gorges itself with it, but the vegetable, through the agency of the solvent power of water, absorbs its nourishment molecule by molecule.

Not one child should be denied food nor water. Not one child should suffer.

My husband is Dutch, and his family, when you sat down to eat food at the table, you never left the table until you ate living bread and drank living water. They never left the table until they'd read Scripture together. So morning, lunch, suppertime, Scripture was always read at the table, and then there was prayer to close.

I need music like I need water.

For me, I just try to make sure I eat enough and drink enough water and that's about it.

Monks will have three begging bowls for their food: one for water, one for liquid food, one for dry food.

Gotta always drink your water.

I believe in nourishment and having a balanced diet. I avoid bingeing and try and eat healthy, especially lots of amla, and drink lots and lots of water.

Drink lots of water, get lots of sleep, and take vitamin C!

Eating lighter makes you lighter. No one can wave a magic wand.

Sometimes a little comfort food can go a long way.

Art was, seriously, the only thing I'd ever wanted to own. It has always been for me a stable nourishment. I use it. It can change the way that I feel in the mornings.

Consider a tree for a moment. As beautiful as trees are to look at, we don't see what goes on underground - as they grow roots. Trees must develop deep roots in order to grow strong and produce their beauty. But we don't see the roots. We just see and enjoy the beauty. In much the same way, what goes on inside of us is like the roots of a tree.

Coffee connects us in so many ways - to each other, to our senses, and to the earth that supports the coffee trees.

It's easy to give up, and that's the one thing we cannot do. That's what gives me a reason for working: to leave people with a little more courage, with a little hope that has been nourished. Even if, of course, it's going to disappear, whatever touches one isn't lost forever.

By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.

When I was growing up on our 53-acre dairy farm, we were obsessed with food; it was the center of our lives. We planted it, grew it, harvested it, peeled it, cooked it, served it, consumed it - endlessly, day after day, season after season.

If I had my dream, we'd all be eating more plants and less garbage.

I have a living wall of 30 plants - tarragon, rosemary, echinacea. I like to walk alongside it, plucking and chewing.

I can never waste water. If I cannot drink it I will use it to water the plants and I will never waste food. If it is inedible it goes on the compost heap.