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Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Quotes galore!

Now this is a food mantra I can get behind: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." - Michael Pollan

"The only thing you can control is your own effort." - Theodora van den Beld


That's the truth!

"The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting." - Fran Lebowitz

My husband sure would love it if I put this into practice a bit more. ;)

"Those who think they have no time for healthy eating will sooner or later have to find time for illness."
- modified from : Edward Stanley (1826-1893) from The Conduct of Life

"I'd heard it all the time, 'Live in the moment.' But if I did that, I'd weigh more than a dump truck. Losing weight wasn't about the moment at all; it was about having faith in the future. It was about knowing there would be another meal in a few hours." - stephanie Klein

"What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease." - George Dennison Prentice

"When I walk into my kitchen today, I am not alone. Whether we know it or not, none of us is. We bring fathers and mothers and kitchen tables, and every meal we have ever eaten. Food is never just food. It's also a way of getting at something else: who we are, who we have been, and who we want to be." - Molly Wizenberg
Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, that’s bad for you! ~Tommy Smothers

Shipping is a terrible thing to do to vegetables. They probably get jet-lagged, just like people. ~Elizabeth Berry

We think fast food is equivalent to pornography, nutritionally speaking. ~Steve Elbert

It's a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it's light out. ~Bill Watterson (which is why I love fall and winter and the time change that comes with it so very much!)

If people were meant to pop out of bed, we'd all sleep in toasters. ~Author unknown, attributed to Jim Davis (hahahaha!!! I must sleep in a toaster...which is so annoying to my husband :)

The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald (SERIOUSLY!)

Nothing cures insomnia like the realization that it's time to get up. ~Author Unknown (so true!)

The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world. ~Edgar Watson Howe

So, eat, sleep, and live. :)

And those are all I will share with you today.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

The toaster quote is the best thing ever! And I definately do not live in a toaster but often wish I did, it would make mornings and life so much easier some times.

Jamie B.