“After all the throwing up, I would starve myself. Which meant eating lettuce and water for two and a half months. I almost lost my life.” TwoLostWaterHalfMonthsEatingThrowingLettuceThrowing Up Author:Richard Simmons
“Eating a piece of meat, at its most efficient, we could say is like throwing away six times that amount of food every time you eat it because you're recycling all those calories through it. I know a lot of people who came to this issue not through animal welfare but through wastefulness.” PeopleKnowsAnimalIssuesPiecesAmountSixEatingWelfareMeatThrowingEfficientCaloriesAnimal WelfareRecyclingThrowing AwayWastefulness Author:Jonathan Safran Foer
“When I talk about drugs and alcohol, I'm talking about sex addiction, gambling addiction, eating addiction, throwing-up addiction. I'm not talking about mental illness.” SexTalkingDrugEatingAddictionIllnessAlcoholMental IllnessGamblingThrowingNot TalkingDrugs And AlcoholSex AddictionThrowing Up Author:Abel Ferrara
“There is an idea that you can take the spiritual teachings of a religion outside of a religion and practice them; these ideas are brought forward. That appears to be easy. You can say, "Oh, well. I don't have to bother about not eating pork, and not drinking wine, and all you have to do is read the beautiful poetry of Rumi and talk about wine, women and song. Or something like that." This kind of attitude. This is the antipode of the other attitude which says Islam is nothing but throwing bombs, it has nothing to do with internal or inward purification.” WellsKindIdeasBeautifulSpiritualSongEasyAttitudePracticeTeachingEatingWineDrinkingIslamBotherBombsInternalsThrowingInwardPorkPurificationOh WellDrinking WineSpiritual TeachingBeautiful PoetryAntipodes Author:Seyyed Hossein Nasr
“Everyone runs around trying to find a place where they still serve breakfast because eating breakfast, even if it's 5 o'clock in the afternoon, is a sign that the day has just begun and good things can still happen. Having lunch is like throwing in the towel.” IfsTryingStillsHappensRunningEatingGood ThingsClockBreakfastLunchThrowingAfternoonTowelsEating BreakfastThrowing In The Towel Author:Jonathan Goldstein