Quotes About Savoring

Don't stir all the warmth out of your coffee; drink it.

It's nice that you enjoy cooking. I happen to enjoy eating.

swimming in that kind of tasty drowsiness that comes over you after a day of going hard at something you enjoy doing-half sunburned and half drunk and keeping awake only because you wanted to savor the taste as long as you could

From the many people around me who practiced mindfulness, I realized how essential it is to attend to the present moment, if we are to experience the rich variety of everyday life. Only by being fully awake to the present are we able to put our realizations into action- not to mention make every cup of coffee count.

And so the condemned man, presented with his final meal, is reminded that at least the cheesecake is delicious.

The only think I like better than talking about Food is eating.

The best traveler is one without a camera.

He walked briskly.    He was all wrapped up in his joy.    He was filled with songs, packed in his throat and pressing against his teeth. He puckered up his lips.    It was a joy of which he wanted to savour all the smell and taste the juice as long as possible, like a sheep eating grass in the evening among the hills. He went on like that, until the beautiful silence had settled within him and around him, like a meadow.

I've discovered the true secret of happiness, Daddy, and that is to live in the now . Not to be for ever regretting the past, or anticipating the future; but to get the most that you can out of this very instant...I'm going to enjoy every second, and I'm going to know I'm enjoying it while I'm enjoying it.

can never get enough time in here.

But is it such a bad thing to live like this for just a little while? Just for a few months of one's life, is it so awful to travel through time with no greater ambition than to find the next lovely meal? Or to learn how to speak a language for no higher purpose than that it pleases your ear to hear it? Or to nap in a garden, in a patch of sunlight, in the middle of the day, right next to your favourite fountain? And then to do it again the next day?

But is it such a bad thing to live like this for just a little while? Just for a few months of one's life, is it so awful to travel through time with no greater ambition than to find the next lovely meal? Or to learn how to speak a language for no higher purpose than that it pleases your ear to hear it? Or to nap in a garden, in a patch of sunlight, in the middle of the day, right next to your favorite fountain? And then to do it again the next day? Of

Every moment is beautiful; delicious even!

you should never fast forward into the future. Because every time you do, you rob yourself of the journey, the present moment, which, in the end is all there really is.

Cooking and eating are among the most important ways we weave days into lives.

I'm such a foodie. If I see a pork chop, I'm eating it.

I was taken by the power that savoring a simple cup of coffee can have to connect people and create community.

Stop taking pictures and start experiencing life.

People get too caught up in what they don't have and get bogged down as a result. There's joy in the present. It's important to just make the most of the these moments we have. Keep an eye on the future, but don't forget to enjoy NOW.

There is a difference between dining and eating. Dining is an art. When you eat to get most out of your meal, to please the palate, just as well as to satiate the appetite, that,my friend, is dining.

The whole banquet is in the first spoonful.

We perhaps need to snatch happiness in little pieces, learning to recognize the elements of happiness and then treasuring them while they last.

When feelings are made available to us isolated, backgroundless, and inherently limited in duration - as they are through music - we can approach them as if we were wine tasters, sampling the delights of various vintages [...]. We become cognoscenti of feeling, savoring the qualitative aspect of emotional life for its own sake.

Be subtle. "Slow eating is good," she agreed. "Like the way I eat chocolate-covered strawberries. The big, pointed ones that I can barely get my lips around. I like to suck them real slow.