- “This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.” ― William Shakespeare, Hamlet
- “How would your life be different if…You were conscious about the food you ate, the people you surround yourself with, and the media you watch, listen to, or read? Let today be the day…You pay attention to what you feed your mind, your body, and your life. Create a nourishing environment conducive to your growth and well-being today.” ― Steve Maraboli, The Power of One
- “Nature is never the same twice; this inconsistency requires adaptability. There are limitless problems in the world. If we think like a machine we only find ourselves with the same problems. The problems are there because we haven’t adapted a solution; the only way to find a solution is to think outside the machine.This thinking is necessary to a natural food system. There are no two vegetables that are the same, no two days of cooking that are the same, no two humans that are the same. Industrial systems give us the same ingredients every day, through all the seasons. When you put square shapes in square spaces, you don’t understand the circle.Your thinking becomes linear and you can’t adapt. When you adapt, your mind is able to make connections and find solutions to the unpredictable nature of real food.” ― Douglas McMaster
- “The moon people do not eat by swallowing food but by smelling it. Their money is poetry – actual poems, written out on pieces of paper whose value is determined by the worth of the poem itself.” ― Paul Auster, Moon Palace
- “My love is meatloaf flavored. I just wish my meatloaf was also meatloaf flavored.” ― Dora J. Arod, Love quotes for the ages. And the ageless sages.
- “Eliminate the concept of division by class, skills, race, income, and nationality. We are all equals with a common pulse to survive. Every human requires food and water. Every human has a dream and desire to be happy. Every human responds to love, suffering and pain. Every human bleeds the same color and occupies the same world. Let us recognize that we are all part of each other. We are all human. We are all one.” ― Suzy Kassem
- “In your name, the family name is at last because it’s the family name that lasts.” ― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
- “If these three genders (veds) were not involved in the play of nature, then you would be able to remain separate in the worldly life for sure. All the play is within the three genders (ved). If these three were regarded as food (nourishment), then there was no problem. But they have been called sufferings (ved).” ― Dada Bhagwan, Brahmacharya: Celibacy Attained with Understanding
- “Watch a French housewife as she makes her way slowly along the loaded stalls… searching for the peak of ripeness and flavor… What you are seeing is a true artist at work, patiently assembling all the materials of her craft, just as the painter squeezes oil colors onto his palette ready to create a masterpiece.” ― Keith Floyd
- “There is no love sincerer than the love of food.” ― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
- “We don’t “crave” animal-based meat, dairy, and eggs, but we do crave fat, salt, flavor, texture, and familiarity.” ― Colleen Patrick-Goudreau, The 30-Day Vegan Challenge: The Ultimate Guide to Eating Healthfully and Living Compassionately
- “Fidelity is a living, breathing entity. On wobbly footing, it can wander, becoming something different entirely.” ― Kay Goodstadt, Love and Death Over Tea
- “Give a man a fish, and you’ll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he’ll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you’re a consultant.” ― Scott Adams
- “For there to be harmony and peace, everything must be balanced. And for there to be balance, there must be equality. And where there is equality, there will be justice. And where justice is honored and preserved, there will always be truth. Eliminate the concept of division by class, skills, race, income, and nationality. We are all equals with a common pulse to survive. Every human requires food and water. Every human has a dream and desire to be happy. Every human responds to love, suffering and pain. Every human bleeds the same color and occupies the same world. Let us recognize that we are all part of each other. We are all human. We are all one.” ― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
- “Mindfulness shifts our thinking so that a simple meal transforms into a gift for all sentient beings.” ― Alex Kakuyo
- “Hearts can’t be broken because they’re made of marzipan.” ― Kerstin Gier, Smaragdgrün
- “People like to warn you that by the time you reach the middle of your life, passion will begin to feel like a meal eaten long ago, which you remember with great tenderness.” ― Meg Wolitzer, The Uncoupling
- “How many would protest if restaurants began serving puppy and kitten flesh instead of calves? Robins instead of hens? Squirrels instead of pigs?” ― Mango Wodzak, Destination Eden
- “I have a lot of time for vegetarians (though apparently not all of them have a lot of time for me), and that’s because I respect anyone with principles about food.” ― Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, River Cottage Veg Every Day!
- “Should I have a doughnut or my disgusting cardboard?” asked Gwynn, as she drew up languidly before me at a study table in a bookstore on State Street, raising a puffed rice cake in the air. My eyes narrowed attentively at her face, but as I hesitated, she announced eagerly, “Disgusting cardboard it is!” ― Daniel Amory, Minor Snobs
- “… food is not simply organic fuel to keep body and soul together, it is a perishable art that must be savoured at the peak of perfection.” ― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly,
- “Don’t eat bear balls. Eat healthy, delectable, plant-based foods so that you will never fall over on your cat.” ― Rip Esselstyn, The Engine 2 Diet: The Texas Firefighter’s 28-Day Save-Your-Life Plan that Lowers Cholesterol and Burns Away the Pounds
- “Jehovah-Jireh is a Great provider. Even in times of famine, we have enough to eat.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
- “There are some who are still weak in faith, who ought to be instructed, and who would gladly believe as we do. But their ignorance prevents them…we must bear patiently with these people and not use our liberty; since it brings to peril or harm to body or soul…but if we use our liberty unnecessarily, and deliberately cause offense to our neighbor, we drive away the very one who in time would come to our faith. Thus St. Paul circumcised Timothy (Acts 16:3) because simple minded Jews had taken offense; he thought: what harm can it do, since they are offended because of ignorance? But when, in Antioch, they insisted that he out and must circumcise Titus (Gal. 2:3) Paul withstood them all and to spite them refused to have Titus circumcised… He did the same when St. Peter…it happened in this way: when Peter was with the Gentiles he ate pork and sausages with them, but when the Jews came in, he abstained from this food and did not eat as he did before. Then the Gentiles who had become Christians though: Alas! we, too, must be like the Jews, eat no pork, and live according to the law of Moses. But when Paul learned that they were acting to the injury of evangelical freedom, he reproved Peter publicly and read him an apostolic lecture, saying: “If you, though a Jew, live like a Gentile, how can you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?” (Gal. 2:14). Thus we, too, should order our lives and use our liberty at the proper time, so that Christian liberty may suffer no injury, and no offense be given to our weak brothers and sisters who are still without the knowledge of this liberty.” ― Martin Luther
- “There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.” ― Mahatma Gandhi
- “Let’s try something more challenging: for instance, being humane. Compassion is the only way to maintain peace in the world.” ― Shivanshu K. Srivastava
- “Let us not believe that an external fast from visible food alone can possibly be sufficient for perfection of heart and purity of body unless with it there has also been united a fast of the soul. For the soul also has its foods that are harmful. Slander is its food and indeed one that is very dear to it. A burst of anger also supplies it with miserable food for an hour and destroys it as well with its deadly savor. Envy is food of the mind, corrupting it with its poisonous juices and never ceasing to make it wretched and miserable at the prosperity and success of another. Vanity is its food which gratifies the mind with a delicious meal for a time but afterward strips it clear and bare of all virtue. Then vanity dismisses it barren and void of all spiritual fruit. All lust and shift wanderings of heart are a sort of food for the soul, nourishing it on harmful meats but leaving it afterwards without a share of its heavenly bread and really solid food. If then, with all the powers we have, we abstain from these in a most holy fast our observance of the bodily fast will be both useful and profitable.” ― John Cassian, Making Life a Prayer: Selected Writings
- “What would you have? Your gentleness shall force More than your force move us to gentleness.” ― William Shakespeare, As You Like It
- “The “civilized” man of today ridicules the idolatry of bygone ages, but he does not realize that he is a far worse idolater than the idolaters of the past. In former times, men set up images of various animals and adored them; today they slaughter those animals and worship their putrefied carcasses.” ― Arshavir Ter Hovannessian, Raw Eating: Or a New World Free from Diseases, Vices and Poisons
- “Onion tartlets, pastry puffs stuffed with cheese, a terrine of mushroom and hazelnuts. There’s an pharaoh-sized pyramid of exotic fruits. The pineapples alone must have cost a small fortune. And, of course, there’s the sham.” ― Tessa Dare, The Wallflower Wager