Quotes About Nourishment

I think steak is the ultimate comfort food, and if you're going out for one, that isn't the time to scrimp on calories or quality.

How good it is to be well-fed, healthy, and kind all at the same time.

Mother's milk, time-tested for millions of years, is the best nutrient for babies because it is nature's perfect food.

Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken.

Take time off to give to yourself, in a sense to fill yourself up to fullness, to where now you can overflow in giving.

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

It's okay to take time for yourself. We give so much of ourselves to others and we need to be fueled both physically and mentally. If we are in balance, it helps us in all our interactions.

I don't think any day is worth living without thinking about what you're going to eat next at all times.

Mans true taproots are nourished in the sequence of generations, and he loses his taproots in disrupted developmental time, not in abandoned localities.

I have a lot of fruit trees and my own little vegetable garden and chickens. And every time I eat, I bless my food; I say I'm grateful for for it and let it nourish every part of my body.

Food first, then talk. Life looks better on a full stomach. People become civilized when they break bread together. Margaret had taught me that.

Then having broken my long fast on a cup of tea and a little thin bread and butter, I sat down beside the small, smouldering fire, and amused myself with a hearty fit of crying.

I get thirsty people glasses of water, even if that thirsty person is just me.

Lies cannot nourish or protect you. Only freedom from fear, freedom from lies, can make us beautiful, and keep us safe.

For some of us, good books and beautiful writing are our ultimate solace, even more comforting than exquisite food.

When I feel like shoveling in food, the emptiness can be filled only with love (April 2012, O Magazine)

Those plates would be filled with love, pride, and connection. That care is what we have longed for our whole lives, and what we create when we are kinder to our bodies and our hungry souls.

if you've worked in good faith for a couple of hours but cannot hear it today, have some lunch.

I drank, sucking the blood out of the holes, experiencing for the first time since infancy the special pleasure of sucking nourishment, the body focused with the mind upon one vital source.

We will eat the figs of our own tree, and the grapes of our own garden.

The earliest and most basic definition of community—of tribe—would be the group of people that you would both help feed and help defend.

Every day Fu-shee, the smaller children, and I fan out in the hills around Green Dragon to strip trees of their bark and leaves, dig up roots and search for wild grass. We'll eat anything, and we have. But you can't eat a leather belt like it's a crisp cucumber. You soak it, boil it, and chew on it for days.

Sharing food is a metaphor for all giving. When we offer someone food, we are not just giving that person something to eat; we are giving far more. We give strength, health, beauty, clarity of mind, and even life, because none of those things would be possible without food. So when we feed another, this is what we are offering: the substance of life itself.

Whatever language we use use to describe healthy relationships, when we're in them, we feel nourished by them, in body as well as mind.