Quotes About Nourishment

My father would give his dinner to any hungry kids who walked by and then go in the backyard and pick weeds from the yard to eat.

I grow my own vegetables and herbs. I like being able to tell people that the lunch I'm serving started out as a seed in my yard.

Yeah, well, food is always a part of everything.

Listen to the inner light; it will guide you. Listen to inner peace; it will feed you. Listen to inner love; it will transform you, it will divinise you, it will immortalise you.

I have good skin, but it's dry - drier than you would think, considering I have Latin skin. It's fairly transparent, too, so I'm constantly trying to give it nourishment and moisture, but nothing really holds.

Earth: Work in the garden. Sit on the ground while holding brown or black gemstones in your hand. Take long walks in the woods. Keep potted plants in your home and workplace. Eat lots of root vegetables: potatoes, carrots, turnips, beets.

The rest of the world lives to eat, while I eat to live.

Thiu shouldst eat to live not live to eat

Thou should eat to live; not live to eat.

Bad people live that they may eat and drink, whereas good people eat and drink that they may live.

Food makes people happy, it takes you back home, it says so many things that words can't say.

With what can we feed the soul in the world of emptiness other than the player?

Gloves dried by the fire feel warmer, bread risen by the fire tastes better, tea made from water heated in a kettle over the fire makes you cozier.

There are four sources of energy — food, sleep, breath and a calm mind.

The spirit cannot endure the body when overfed, but, if underfed, the body cannot endure the spirit.

Food in sleep shows very like our food awake; yet are not those asleep nourished by it, for they are asleep.

For verses and poems I can turn to true food.

I fill one container with hearty vegetable soup, and another with a Japanese-style broth, bok choy, scallions, and udon noodles. I pack up a roasted chicken breast, and some plain steamed brown rice. Some orange slices in honey vinegar with mint. A couple of corn muffins.

You can heal your body with food.

You're on a diet your whole life. Every bite you take is part of your daily diet—your necessary intake of food. So the diet you choose has to be one that will last—one that will keep you healthy for the long haul.

Drop out of the "clean-plate club." "Lord, help me to eat more heartily at Your table and more sparingly at mine!" —Derl Keefer

In view of the escalating global crisis brought about by the materialistic orientation of Western technological civilization, it has become obvious that we are paying a great price for having denied and rejected spirituality. We have banned a force that nourishes, empowers, and gives meaning to human existence from our lives.

Het ligt niet in de menselijke aard alleen op herinneringen te teren, en zoals planten en welk schepsel dan ook voedsel uit de aarde en steeds nieuw gefilterd licht uit de hemel nodig hebben, zodat hun kleuren niet verbleken en de bloemkelken niet verwelkt hun bladeren verliezen, zo hebben ook dromen, ook dromen die schijnbaar niet van deze aarde zijn, voedsel nodig van het zinnelijke, ondersteund door tederheid en beelden, anders stolt hun bloed en de intensiteit van hun licht verbleekt.

The practitioner empowers his food and drink into nectar with the three syllables OM AH HUM , and he eats it as if it were an offering to the deity whom he vividly visualizes himself to be; he empowers his clothing and seat also into "ornaments of self-luminous knowledge" with the three syllables, and thus he enjoys them.