Quotes About Nourishment

When I am king, they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved. - The Prince and the Pauper

When I am king, they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books; for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved, and the heart. I will keep this diligently in my remembrance, that this day's lesson be not lost upon me, and my people suffer thereby; for learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.

For when a man's soul is starving, what does he care for meat and roof so he can but get that nobler hunger fed?

We only compound our feelings of depletion if we deal with them by giving up activities that normally nourish us

You can't eat books, sweetheart.

I think she ate a salad and some soup. And loneliness. She ate that, too.

Meine Erdäpfel," he said. "My earth apples.

Maud (like my mother) thought food did a lot more than just fill you up.

Joy born of deep suffering is nourished by moments of celebration.... Celebration properly understood is the acceptance of life in an ever growing recognition that it is so precious.

Our culture is obsessed with physical health and soundness. It advises us to avoid junk food, read labels, shop in whole-food stores, and pay more for organic foods. As a result, many people watch what they eat. But sadly, most are utterly unconcerned about their spiritual consumption. They are unaware that they are ingesting a lot of contaminated, unhealthy ideas.

It meant abstaining from all food, solid or liquid, but not from water.

However, experience has taught us that action in the now is also necessary, always. Our children cannot dream unless they live, they cannot live unless they are nourished, and who else will feed them the real food without which their dreams will be no different from ours? 'If you want us to change the world someday, we at least have to live long enough to grow up!' shouts the child.

I know I got to eat. But I got to live too.

Bad news should be followed with soup. Then a nap.

There was a great satisfaction to be found in the food which we need and obtain by our own hand.

but he was discovering what nourished his soul. He was letting go and trusting what lay ahead for him, even though he did not know exactly what it was.

The expense of eating is, in great part, the resistance the second life offers to being eaten.

One day Trurl the constructor put together a machine that could build anything beginning with the letter 'n'.

Hope is the nutrient-rich soil in which joy flourishes.

We can't live without eating, but we don't live to eat.

Always feed a wolf his fill, the old woman quotes out loud, lest you wake with your throat in his jaws.

They had discovered one could grow as hungry for light as for food.

I am led irresistibly to this conclusion: food may be life, but the source of power is faith, not food. And who is more capable of a total act of faith than a child?

Sustainable Foods = Sustainable Health = Sustainable Life = Victory