577 Quotes About Eating

  • Author Masanobu Fukuoka
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    At first people ate simply because they were alive and because food was tasty. Modern people have come to think that if they do not prepare food with elaborate seasonings, the meal will be tasteless. If you do not try to make food delicious, you will find that nature has made it so.

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  • Author Rainbow Rowell
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    All you do is eat. You eat, then you start thinking about the next thing you're going to eat.""Eating is the only thing that breaks the monotony," Scotty said.Seth's eyebrows shot up. "This isn't monotony. This is the fucking dream.""It will be," Scotty said. "When I have some yogurt.

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  • Author Elias Canetti
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    His meals were always punctual. Whether she cooked well or badly he did not know; it was a matter of total indifference to him. During his meals, which he ate at his writing desk, he was busy with important considerations. As a rule he would not have been able to say what precisely he had in his mouth. He reserved consciousness for real thoughts; they depend upon it; without consciousness, thoughts are unthinkable. Chewing and digestion happen of themselves.

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  • Author Chögyam Trungpa
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    When you eat with awareness, you find that there is more space, more beauty. You begin to watch yourself, to see yourself, and you notice how clumsy you are or how accurate you are…When you practice awareness, everything becomes majestic and good. You begin to see that you have been leading a different kind of life in the past. You had the essence of mindfulness already, but you hadn’t discovered it.

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  • Author Oliver Sacks
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    Having ferned for an hour, we take a break for our lunch and I eat, unwisely, quite an enormous meal....

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