Quotes About Nourishment

Good food warms the heart and feeds the soul.

The question of bread for myself is a material question, but the question of bread for my neighbor is a spiritual question.

To protect any community, we need intelligence and to nourish it we need humility.

The Soul of the World is nourished by people's happiness. And also by unhappiness, envy, and jealousy. To realize one's Personal Legend is a person's only real obligation. All things are one.

The eating of meat extinguishes the seed of Great Kindness.

If we give someone a piece of bread and butter, that's kindness, but if we put jelly or peanut butter on it, then it's Loving Kindness.

food for the body and food for the soul, the latter must always take precedence because it alone is absolutely essential.

Is not life more than food, and the body than clothing?

I like reality. It tastes like bread.

La destinée des nations dépend de la manière dont elles se nourrissent.

Les animaux se repaissent; l'homme mange; l'homme d'esprit seul sait manger.

I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.

You hungry yet? Personally, I could eat this dock without even syrup.

Rice comes to life in water and should die in wine.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Prayer is a meeting which nourishes our hearts. It is presence and communion. The secret of our being is in this kiss of God by which we know we are loved and forgiven. In our deepest selves, below the levels of action and understanding, there is a vulnerable heart, a child who loves but is afraid to love. Silent prayer nourishes this deep place.

The world is nothing without life, and all that lives takes nourishment.

Pa gen lape nan tet, si pa gen lape nan vant (there is no peace in the head if there is no peace in the stomach).

I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.

Lydia thanks the girls, and her spoken gratitude feels entirely insufficient, because what she really needs to say is that the food, yes, but also their kindness, their humanity, their very existence, has nourished some withered, essential part of herself.

petit déjeuner

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

If you really want to be a good gardener, you need to understand what is going on in your soil.