As a culture we seem to have arrived at a place where whatever native wisdom we may once have possessed about eating has been replaced by confusion and anxiety. Somehow this most elemental of activities — figuring out what to eat — has come to require a remarkable amount of expert help. How did we ever get to a point where we need investigative journalists to tell us where our food comes from and nutritionists to determine the dinner menu? —Michael Pollan More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Those who think they have no time for healthy eating will sooner or later have to find time for illness. —Edward Stanley More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Why should a man's mind have been thrown into such close, sad, sensational, inexplicable relations with such a precarious object as his own body? —Thomas Hardy More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: health Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed. —François Duc de La Rochefoucauld More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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