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“Simply to have all the necessities of life and three meals a day will not bring happiness. Happiness is hidden in the unnecessary and in those impractical things that bring delight to the inner person. . . . When we lack proper time for the simple pleasures of life, for the enjoyment of eating, drinking, playing, creating, visiting friends, and watching children at play, then we have missed the purpose of life. Not on bread alone do we live but on all these human and heart-hungry luxuries.”

“Food serves two parallel purposes: it nourishes and it helps you remember. Eating and storytelling are inseparable-the saltwater is also tears; the honey not only tastes sweet, but makes us think of sweetness; the matzo is the bread of our affliction.”

Thinking Two Helping Remember Purpose Tears Sweet Taste Eating Bread Storytelling Vegetarian Vegan Honey Affliction Sweetness Parallels Inseparable

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“Where hunger is imposed by external circumstances, the act of starvation remains literal, a tragic biological event that does not serve metaphoric or symbolic purposes. It is only in a country where one is able to choose hunger that elective starvation may come to express cultural conflict or even social protest.”

May Doe Country Able Purpose Social Events Circumstances Conflict Eating Remains Hunger Tragic Protest Symbolic Literal Starvation Metaphoric

Book:The obsession: reflections on the tyranny of slenderness

Source: The obsession: reflections on the tyranny of slenderness

“Oh, no doubt the cod is a splendid swimmer - admirable for swimming purposes but not for eating.”

Purpose Doubt Eating No Doubt Swimming Splendid Admirable Swimmer

Book:The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde

Source: The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde

“I don't live in L.A. on purpose because I don't wanna be immersed in that. I have to have a real life, with real people, in order to inform what I'm doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.”

People Real Purpose Order Eating Real Life Tails Snakes Vampirism

Author:Alan Arkin

“The purpose of the media is to make us all spectators, to watch. So that's why we have millions of fat children watching the games, eating and consuming and not playing themselves.”

Children Purpose Games Watches Millions Media Eating Fats Spectators Consuming

Author:Malachy McCourt

“The best we can do is strive to minimize the amount of harm we cause by living. We need to eat in order to live, and there is no moral or ethical code that dictates that we should refrain from eating and allow ourselves to die for some higher purpose.”

Needs Should Purpose Order Dies Causes Can Do Moral Amount Higher Eating Strive Harm Code Ethical Refrain Higher Purpose

Author:Sharon Gannon

“He taught them that the purpose of a man is to make his life holy--every aspect of his life: eating, drinking praying, sleeping. God is everywhere, he told them, and if it seems at times that He is hidden from us, it is only because we have not yet learned to seek Him correctly.”

Ifs Men Seems Purpose Sleep Taught Praying Holy Eating Aspect Drinking

Book:The Chosen

Source: The Chosen

“Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose, keep in touch (or don't), care about birthdays, waste and lose time, brush their teeth, feel nostalgia, scrub stains, have religions and political parties and laws, wear keepsakes, apologize years after an offense, whisper, fear themselves, interpret dreams, hide their genitalia, shave, bury time capsules, and can choose not to eat something for reasons of conscience. The justifications for eating animals and for not eating them are often identical: we are not them.”