logo

Quotes About Savoring

The lesson, so simple yet so difficult, is that life can be savored even though it contains hardship, disappointment, loss, and even brutality. The choice to see its beauty is available to us at every moment.
~ David Von Drehle
If I'm a lush at anything, it's food and drink. I'm not materialistic in any way, but I value food.
~ Hugh Jackman
Maybe lime isn't my favorite normally, but it is right now. This piece of candy tastes better because it's his favorite, freely given, and that's true sweetness.
~ Unknown
O, to take what we love inside, to carry within us an orchard, to eat not only the skin, but the shade, not only the sugar, but the days, to hold the fruit in our hands, adore it, then bite into the round jubilance of peach.
~ Li-Young Lee
He took a deep, long swig and closed his eyes.
~ Unknown
The idea is to eat well and not die from it - for the simple reason that that would be the end of my eating.
~ Jim Harrison
My favorite cookie is the cookie I'm eating at the moment.
~ Joanne Fluke
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate - that's my philosophy.
~ Thornton Wilder
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy the ice cream while it's on your plate.
~ Thornton Wilder
Take life one day at a time..it's not how fast we move or how long we live...it's how we cherish every moment...
~ Unknown
Happiness" alone does not guarantee mental health and well-being. A tempering dose of disappointment- an occasional taste of frustration and learning that you do recover from it- goes a long way toward producing long-term contentment. Indeed the ability to ride out the bad times without feeling doomed is essential to survival. When happiness is not taken for granted, and when one is acquainted with its opposite it is more easily savored and has more lasting effects.
~ Victoria Secunda
I want a certain density that encourages savoring. I want to slide warp over woof, I want to make knots. I want entanglement, unexpected connections, reverberations, the weight of pouring rain on red earth. Mud is where life begins.
~ Vikram Chandra
Poetry is the only art people haven't yet learnt to consume like soup.
~ W. H. Auden
A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish.
~ W.H. Auden
If you take all your meals seriously, none of them gets a chance to matter.
~ Robert Farrar Capon
There's been a lot of really cool stuff that's happened to me throughout my career, and I remember everything, but I don't think I savored every moment of it like I should have or like I do now.
~ Joe Nichols
Always looking toward the next moment, the next month, the next event, rarely allowing myself the privilege of fully participating and embracing the happenings that were right before me for that day.
~ Priscilla Shirer
Don't run I never liked fast food
~ Rachel Caine
What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew I would never see it again?
~ Rachel Carson
She lifts the lid from the pan of smoked green wheat kernels and dips in a spoon. Here. Taste. He holds the spoon in his mouth for a moment. She knows what he is tasting, how the broth is flavored with pepper and garlic and lustrous, deep smokiness. And try this, she says. Vibrant vegetable greens, garlic, and lemon. And this. Herbal, meaty, vaguely fruity.
~ Diana Abu-Jaber
You can be miserable before you have a cookie and you can be miserable after you eat a cookie but you can't be miserable while you are eating a cookie.
~ Ina Garten
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored." ? Earl Nightingale Catherine
~ Inglath Cooper
Read it slow as you can. It's like a fine meal. You don't want to gulp it, but savor it so you can taste it in your memory when you're lone done.
~ Lori Lansens
He stared for ten seconds or more, which, when eating a chocolate cake isn't much, but when staring, is.
~ Louise Penny