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I went on a diet, swore off drinking and heavy eating, and in fourteen days I had lost exactly two weeks.
No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office.
Complaining will not change things in your life; only action will. Make a list of all you need to do to change what doesn't work in your life and, little by little, begin making those changes.
The price of success is much lower than the price of failure.
Eat not to dullness, drink not to elevation.
One meal a day is enough for a lion and would be for all of us if all we did all day was swat flies.
The typical old-fashioned diet (in the nineteenth century) was so bad it almost assembled modern dieting.
For 24 years of my adult life, by choice I weighed well over 200 lbs. I say by choice because you see I have never accidentally eaten anything.
Both belly bulge and love handles are about excess body fat, not lack of muscle. Crunches and ab exercises are therefore not the solution. The best way to reduce these problem areas is to reduce your overall body fat percentage, and we all know that that requires diet and exercise.
For most celebrities, the biggest meal of the day is toothpaste (they use reduced-fat Crest).
The human body was designed to walk, run or stop; it wasn't built for coasting.
If you have formed the habit of checking on every new diet that comes along, you will find that, mercifully, they all blur together, leaving you with only one definite piece of information: french-fried potatoes are out.
A diet is a plan, generally hopeless, for reducing your weight, which tests your will power but does little for your waistline.
The biggest seller is cookbooks and the second is diet books - how not to eat what you've just learned how to cook.
At the end of every diet, the path curves back to the trough.
For some moments in life there are no words.
The job of the poet is to render the world-to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.
I guess every generation is doomed to fight its war...suffer the loss of the same old illusions, and learn the same old lessons on its own.
If you have trouble imagining a 20% loss in the stock market, you shouldn't be in stocks.
Any individual or society that fails to honor or provide the opportunity for women to fully exert their power can never truly prosper. All creativity, growth, imagination, nurturing - All possibilities are born within the female womb of the Devine Feminine. To deny Her a rightful place, either within ourselves or in the world in which we live, is to do irreparable harm and endure the loss of countless joys.
And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship.
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