Quotes About Nourishment

#1. Now I find that in pure obedience the mind learns contentment, in appearing weak and foolish to the wisdom which is of this World; and in these lowly labors, they who stand in a low place, rightly exercised under the Cross, will find nourishment.

John Woolman

#2. The bitter pinecone may be eaten, The mist on high give nourishment. The whole world takes to go-and-getting; My way alone is difficult.

Du Fu

#3. [Y]ou have to learn to intake, to imbibe, to nourish yourself and not be afraid of fullness. The fullness is like a tidal wave which then carries you, sweeps you into experience and into writing.

Anais Nin

#4. Nourishment means a quality of life; consistency in the way we treat ourselves.

Kelis

#5. I drank, sucking the blood out of the holes, experiencing for the first time since infancy the special pleasure of sucking nourishment, the body focused with the mind upon one vital source.

Anne Rice

#6. Walking, talking, reading, drawing, praying, telling stories: the nourishment is there, as close as our own breath. We only have to pause a moment, notice, and enjoy.

Christian McEwen

#7. Was he an animal if music could captivate him so? It seemed to him that he was being shown the way to the unknown nourishment he had been yearning for.

Franz Kafka

#8. I think it's really important to know what you're putting into your body and give it nourishment.

Kelly Rowland

#9. Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#10. People understand the meaning of eating lies in the nourishment of the body only when they cease to consider that the object of that activity is pleasure ... People understand the meaning of art only when they cease to consider that the aim of that activity is beauty, i.e., pleasure.

Leo Tolstoy

#11. Aviation will give new nourishment to the religious sprit of mankind. It will add airspace to those other great heighteners of the cosmic mood: the wood, the sea, the desert.

Christian Morgenstern

#12. At both ends of life man needed nourishment: a breast - a shrine. Something to lay himself beside when no one wanted him further, and shoot a bullet into his head.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#13. The president is the cube of ice one places in the pot of a houseplant, providing a steady amount of nourishment over the course of a hot day. A good description of the job and also a fantastic bit of practical household advice.

Abraham Lincoln

#14. No local church can afford to go without the encouragement and nourishment that will come to it by sending away its best people.

David Penman

#15. On the tree, Future, we build our nest; and in our solitude eagles shall bring us nourishment in their beaks!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#16. Food brings people together on many different levels. It's nourishment of the soul and body; it's truly love.

Giada De Laurentiis

#17. When my mother was dying, I cooked for her. One of the things I realised was that the smell and look of the food was key. I concentrated on how it looked on the plate. Even if the amount was small, it gave her a nourishment of a different kind.

Simon McBurney

#18. Passion is of the nature of seed, and finds nourishment within, tending to a predominance which determines all currents towards itself, and makes the whole life its tributary.

George Eliot

#19. Joy draws its nourishment from quietness and from the unfathomable.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#20. Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.

John Cage

#21. When we look at things as simple as food, it's not about just nourishment and sustaining our life, it is really the seed of our ancestor.

Maya Tiwari

#22. Love is the greatest nourishment of the soul. To be loved creates a strong back bone, joy, peace and soundness.

Euginia Herlihy

#23. Reading is the nourishment that lets you do interesting work.

Jennifer Egan

#24. All beings are conscious and have their own conscious experience. All living things have similar goals of obtaining nourishment, seeking companionship and avoiding pain.

Joseph P. Kauffman

#25. Attachment is the root cause of all misery. Possessiveness is nourishment for the ego.

Rajneesh

#26. I am pleased and reassured by the fact that a lot of younger playwrights seem to pay me some attention and gain some nourishment from what I do.

Edward Albee

#27. You should be extending your stay among writers whose genius is unquestionable, deriving constant nourishment from them if you wish to gain anything from your reading that will find a lasting place in your mind. To be everywhere is to be nowhere.
-Seneca, Letters from a Stoic, II

Denise Gigante

#28. Her voice was the pattering of drizzle on the misty surface, infused with nourishment and despair and acceptance.

Pam Godwin

#29. I've been alone since my mom met Scott.
He sucked the nectar from her heart
like a famished butterfly. No nurture,
no nourishment left for Kristina.
A vacation is a poor substitute
for love.

Ellen Hopkins

#30. Remember, too, that at a time when people are very concerned with their health and its relationship to what they eat, we have handed over the responsibility for our nourishment to faceless corporations.

Lynne Rossetto Kasper

#31. A balanced dieT to make you die with a tea, consists of holding two bags of cookies on each hand and a voracious hunger to consume.

Ana Claudia Antunes

#32. The disease of jealously is so malignant that is converts all it takes into its own nourishment.

Joseph Addison

#33. Any man who leads the regular and temperate life, not swerving from it in the least degree where his nourishment is concerned, can be but little affected by other disorders or incidental mishaps. Whereas, on the other hand, I truly conclude that disorderly habits of living are those which are fatal.

Luigi Cornaro

#34. You wouldn't maintain a house like that' you'd feet it and water it. You'd have to give it nourishment and love it to keep it alive and healthy.

Anne Rivers Siddons

#35. Intellectual men who quickly wolf down whatever nourishment is necessary for their bodies with a kind of disdain, may be very rational and have a noble intelligence, but they are not men of taste.

Charles-Augustin De Coulomb

#36. Facts and information are the nourishment, the lifeblood, the raison d'etre, and also the bane and despair of librarians and researchers.

Kee Malesky

#37. Food is first for nourishment, not just for taste or appearance, and this is an important thing to teach children.

Katie Wells

#38. When you grow and rise above the masses, you will always become a target. Just as the flower grows above the grass, it becomes a target for the nourishment of the rays of sunshine, it also becomes a target to be cut down.

Sumner Davenport

#39. May the nourishment of the earth be yours, may the clarity of light be yours, may the fluency of the ocean be yours,

John O'Donohue

#40. If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

Hippocrates

#41. After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.

Philip Pullman

#42. There was a soft drink bottle on the windowsill. Its label boasted that it contained no nourishment whatsoever.

Kurt Vonnegut

#43. Pessimism is a form of mental dipsomania; it disdains healthy nourishment, indulges in the strong drink of denunciation, and creates an artificial dejection which thirsts for a stronger draught.

Rabindranath Tagore

#44. The physician of the soul is aware that his patient will receive no nourishment unless he has been cleaned out; and the soul of the Great King himself, if he has not undergone this purification, is unclean and impure.

Plato

#45. Itadakimasu, I take this nourishment in gratitude to all beings;

Lauren Groff

#46. The landscape inside Lord of the Rings was so stunning and so stupendous that it could be absorbed as a form of nourishment.

Jasper Fforde

#47. As the soil of a garden is richer and as the harvest of the garden bears healthier nourishment from the decay of leaf matter and banana peel and egg shell and human hair and chicken bone and fireplace ash, so the accumulation of death in teh ground of a city implants therein energies and powers.

Tim Gilmore

#48. But the coconut is also a symbol of resilience, Samar. Even in the conditions where there's very little nourishment and even less nurturance, it flourishes, growing taller than most of the plants around it.

Neesha Meminger

#49. I just hope Americans come to understand that food isn't something to be manipulated by our teeth and shoved down our gullet, that it's our spiritual and physical nourishment and important to our well-being as a nation.

Alice Waters

#50. For life we need three things only: nourishment, love, and peace.

Debasish Mridha

#51. Pay attention to what your body is telling you about your own wants and needs. Find the rhythms in your cycles. There is wisdom in our biology. Above all, do what feels best. Making healthy choices feels good. This is not deprivation. It is nourishment on all levels. It is the opposite of neglect.

Julie Holland

#52. Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that.

James Brown

#53. People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in 'em as food.

Dorothy Gilman

#54. Art for me is a form of nourishment. I need the land. I need it.

Andy Goldsworthy

#55. Meditation is a way for nourishing and blossoming the divinity within you.

Amit Ray

#56. Sustenance for the infant and child is more than alimentary nourishment. The child needs love, security, narcissistic supplies
however one may describe it.

Alexander Lowen

#57. There is a young and impressionable mind out there that is hungry for information. It has latched on to an electronic tube as its main source of nourishment.

Joan Ganz Cooney

#58. The nourishment of Cezanne's awkward apples is in the tenderness and alertness they awaken inside us.

Jane Hirshfield

#59. Humans are tuned for relationship. The eyes, the skin, the tongue, ears, and nostrils-all are gates where our body receives the nourishment of otherness.

David Abram

#60. To be at peace with self, to find company and nourishment in self-this would be the test of the free and productive psyche.

Marya Mannes

#61. The Monarchy ... is the secret well from which the flourishing institution of British Snobbery draws its nourishment

Kingsley Martin

#62. I cannot speculate on what our cluttered mind will save- sleepy Sundays, or a nosebleed after love. I know only the dying heart needs the nourishment of memory to live beyond too many winters.

Rod McKuen

#63. Prayer will carry you to Judgment Day; it is your nourishment and your protection. In prayer you are closest to God. It is then that you develop your own personal relationship with God.

Kristiane Backer

#64. The Net's interactivity gives us powerful new tools for finding information, expressing ourselves, and conversing with others. It also turns us into lab rats constantly pressing levers to get tiny pellets of social or intellectual nourishment.

Nicholas Carr

#65. We are narrative creatures, and we need narrative nourishment - narrative catechisms.

N.D. Wilson

#66. Be consistent in your dedication to showing your gratitude to others. Gratitude is a fuel, a medicine, and spiritual and emotional nourishment.

Steve Maraboli

#67. Witchcraft ... is a spiritual path. You walk it for nourishment of the soul, to commune with the life force of the universe, and to thereby better know your own life.

Christopher Penczak

#68. A day cannot live in infamy without the nourishment of rage. Let's have rage. What's needed is a unified, unifying, Pearl Harbor sort of purple American fury.

Lance Morrow

#69. Hugs are nourishment for the heart.

Lynda Cheldelin Fell

#70. Most bereaved souls crave nourishment more tangible than prayers: they want a steak.

M.F.K. Fisher

#71. Religion is a form of nourishment. It is difficult to appreciate the flavor and food-value of something one has never eaten.

Simone Weil

#72. Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#73. Zane winced at the thunderous voice inside his head; the weaker they were the stronger the father of his kind became. Since he did not care to find out if Blodbad's loud, incessant droning could render him both insane and deaf, Zane decided to make obtaining adequate nourishment priority number one.

Sharon Davis

#74. Sitting in meditation is nourishment for your spirit and nourishment for your body, as well.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#75. Don't live a day without your spiritual nourishment; mediation on the word of God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#76. Seek midday nourishment. Visit memorial acclaimed war hero Colonel Sanders.

Chuck Palahniuk

#77. The nourishment from barbecue is palatable.

Millard Fillmore

#78. They trust me, and they've forgotten how to rely on their own instincts, because I lead them to nourishment.

Paulo Coelho

#79. A woman is a vehicle of life. Life has overtaken her. Woman is what it is all about-the giving of birth and the giving of nourishment.

Joseph Campbell

#80. Internally, you experience rowing as a graphic microcosm of life - solitude, learning, work, rest, nourishment, sharing and ultimately challenge.

Allen Rosenberg

#81. Our spirits ... require nourishment. Just as there is food for the body, there is food for the spirit. The consequences of spiritual malnutrition are just as hurtful to our spiritual lives as physical malnutrition is to our physical bodies.

Dallin H. Oaks

#82. Is to make them grow tall. For it contributes to height of stature when the vitality is not impeded and hindered by a mass of nourishment which forces it into thickness and width,

Plutarch

#83. The nourishment of body is food, while the nourishment of the soul is feeding others.

Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S

#84. Everything one reads is nourishment of some sort - good food or junk food - and one assumes it all goes in and has its way with your brain cells.

Lorrie Moore

#85. This is hospitality at its core. This is the beat of my heart: to experience grace and nourishment, and to offer it, one in each hand, to every person I meet - grace and nourishment. You can rest. You don't have to starve.

Shauna Niequist

#86. Miss N. had taught her nurses to watch carefully in order to understand what the ill required and provide it. Not medicine - that was the doctors' domain - but the things she argued were equally crucial to recovery: light, air, warmth, cleanliness, rest, comfort, nourishment, and conversation.

Emma Donoghue

#87. Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning's gentle wine! Nature waits upon thee still, And thy verdant cup does fill; 'Tis fill'd wherever thou dost tread, Nature's self's thy Ganymede.

Abraham Cowley

#88. Love is an exotic; it is not a plant which will flourish naturally in human soil, it must be watered from above. Love to Jesus is a flower of a delicate nature, and if it received no nourishment but that which could be drawn from the rock of our hearts it would soon wither.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#89. And when my spirit wants no stimulus or nourishment save music, I know it is to be sought in cemeteries: the musicians hide in the tombs; from grave to grave flute trills, harp chords answer one another.

Italo Calvino

#90. He had the kind of character in which prudence is a vice, and good advice the most dangerous nourishment.

Edith Wharton

#91. I cannot be critical of an infant whose only possible source of nourishment can be found in the dugs of a wolf.

Jack Henry Abbott

#92. Food was celebration, conversation, and nourishment. The table is where the big decisions of the family are made and all the arguing takes place.

Adriana Trigiani

#93. My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top 750 people. Of course, I had to pull out some weeds, too.

Jack Welch

#94. Without the nourishment of the soul, there is no strength of spirit.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#95. When we are happy, we forget to eat. Then happiness is a primary need, even more important for life than nourishing the body.

Rossana Condoleo

#96. There are two kinds of photographers: those who compose pictures and those who take them. The former work in studios. For the latter, the studio is the world ... For them, the ordinary doesn't exist: every thing in life is a source of nourishment.

Ernst Haas

#97. I am in truth the Steppenwolf that I often call myself; that beast astray that finds neither home nor joy nor nourishment in a world that is strange and incomprehensible to him.

Hermann Hesse

#98. How did we go - in a relatively short amount of time - from Audrey Hepburn to Kim Kardashian? I don't know how that happened. Like did we all collectively slip and hit our heads as a society? Why are we accepting garbage as nourishment? I don't know what's going on.

Laura Benanti

#99. It's a mystery to me how anyone ever gets any nourishment in this place. They must eat their meals standing up by the window so as to be sure of not missing anything.

Agatha Christie

#100. The purpose of the Lord's Supper is to receive from Christ the nourishment and strength and hope and joy that come from feasting our souls on all that He purchased for us on the cross, especially His own fellowship.

John Piper