Nutrition is a young subject; it has been kicked around like a puppy that cannot take care of itself. Food faddists and crackpots have kicked it pretty cruelly. . . . They seem to believe that unless food tastes like Socratic hemlock, it cannot build health. Frankly, I often wonder what such persons plan to do with good health in case they acquire it. —Adelle Davis More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I hated my mother's lunches. I was horrified by them. She would never buy Ding Dongs or Twinkies. She also used to make spanakopita and eggplant parmesan from ethnic cookbooks — and my favorite restaurant in the world was Denny's. I used to say, "When I grow up, my kids are going to eat whatever they want to eat, and my refrigerator is going to be full of everything they would want." And you know what? It just didn't happen. —Nancy Silverton More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the Titanic who waved off the dessert cart. —Erma Bombeck More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Everything I eat has been proved by some writer or other to be a deadly poison. Everything I don't eat has been proved indispensable to life. . . . But I go marching on. —George Bernard Shaw More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself. —Johnny Carson More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I am letting go of my idea of time. I see that eternal life is not a question of "I will be forever," but of "Now I am." Eternity is time dying in me. —Jean Lanier More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Death is only a change of condition: time and space are in you; you are not in time and space. —Swami Vivekananda More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When the signs of age begin to mark my body (and still more when they touch my mind); when the ill that is to diminish me or carry me off strikes from without or is born within me; when the painful moment comes in which I suddenly awaken to the fact that I am ill or growing old; . . . in all those dark moments, O God, grant that I may understand that it is You (provided only my faith is strong enough) who are painfully parting the fibers of my being in order to penetrate to the very marrow of my substance and bear me away within Yourself. —Pierre Teilhard de Chardin More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth. —Henry Miller More about this quote Tags: perspective growth decay richness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The goal of every culture is to decay through overcivilization; the factors of decadence — luxury, skepticism, weariness, and superstition — are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next. —Cyril Connolly More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Old age cannot be cured. An epoch or a civilization cannot be prevented from breathing its last. A natural process that happens to all flesh and all human manifestations cannot be arrested. You can only wring your hands and utter a beautiful swan song. —Renee Winegarten More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
That is what they call being reconciled to die. They call it reconciled when pain has strummed a symphony of suffering back and forth across you, up and down, round and round you until each little fiber is worn tissue-thin with aching. And when you are lying beaten and buffeted, battered and broken — pain goes out, joins hands with Death, and comes back to dance, dance, dance, stamp, stamp, stamp down on you until you give up. —Marita Bonner More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When one cannot be sure that there are many days left, each single day becomes as important as a year, and one does not waste an hour in wishing that that hour were longer, but simply fills it, like a smaller cup, as high as it will go without spilling over. —Natalie Kusz More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Life is tough . . . What do you get at the end of it? A death. What's that, a bonus? I think the life cycle is all backward. You should die first, get it out of the way. Then you live in an old-age home. You get kicked out when you're too young, you get a gold watch, you go to work. You work forty years until you're young enough to enjoy your retirement. You do drugs, alcohol, you party, you get ready for high school. You go to grade school, you become a kid, you play, you have no responsibilities, you become a little baby, you go back into the womb, you spend your last nine months floating — and you finish off as an orgasm. —George Carlin More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The leaves move in the garden, the sky is pale, and I catch myself weeping. It is hard — it is hard to make a good death. —Katherine Mansfield More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email