Quotes

Health

“Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. She exists for no other end. With the least inclination to be well, we should not be sick.”
—Henry David Thorough

“Good Health is more than feeling physically and mentally well. It means that one is whole spiritually, that one feels good, sometimes in spite of what’s going on in the body.”
—Brother Achalananda

Food and Nutrition

“To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.”
—Benjamin Franklin

“Let food be your medicine.”
—Hippocrates

“Never eat more than you can lift.”
—Miss Piggy

“Laughter is brightest where food is best.”
—Irish proverb

“Only the pure of heart can make good soup.”
—Beethoven

“Once you eat a tomato in the summer, you won’t eat a tomato in the winter.”
—Alice Waters

Yoga and Nutrition

“Instead of eating carelessly and hurriedly, in the midst of noise, agitation and arguments and then going off to do yoga exercises, wouldn’t it be much better to understand that meals give you the perfect opportunity every day, two or three times a day, to practice relaxation, concentration and the harmonization of all the cells of your body?”
—Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

"By expanding the pleasure arising from the taste of eating and drinking, one should generate a mental state filled with that delight. As a result, supreme bliss will manifest."
—Vijnana-Bhairava

Yoga

“Every day you should dip your soul into beauty. Meditation is the means to see beauty in the soul, which is the source of all beauty.”
—Hari Prasad Shastri

“Our breath is constantly rising and falling, ebbing and flowing, entering and leaving our bodies. Full body breathing is an extraordinary symphony of both powerful and subtle movements that massage our internal organs, oscillate our joints, and alternately tone and release all the muscles in the body. It is a full participation with life.”
—Donna Farhi

“Truth is not far away; it is ever present. It is not something to be attained since not one of your steps leads away from it.”
—Dogen

“The openness to Life Itself that we cultivate frees us from a great deal of conditioning and many inherent, and inherited, assumptions…Life is not about answers. It is about learning to live in the middle of complete uncertainty, and doing so gracefully.”
—Swami Chetananda