"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. That, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing question of what we humans should eat in order to be maximally healthy."

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Source : Michael Pollan (2008). “In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto”, p.12, Penguin

Michael Pollan

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“The artist, surgeon, through clay form, can only look for cure with great obstinacy until he discovers, repeatedly, that love is god's only gift that enables man to transcend his tragedy and regain his wholeness and well-being beyond the claws of evil, rampaging as evil may be.”
“The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already.”
“It is very much easier to work than to pray. Most of the missionaries are earnest workers. But are we all that we should be in the matter of prayer? Let us not suppose that just any sort of praying will do for China. We must all wrestle with God. 'I will not let Thee go unless Thou bless China.' It must come to this if the conversion of the Chinese is ever to be an accomplished fact. Such is my conviction. Let me remind you that the greatest importunity is not incompatible with the profoundest submission to the Divine will.”
“Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you.”
“Gratitude is the realization that we have everything we need, at least in this moment.”

Source : M.J. Ryan (2009). “Attitudes of Gratitude, 10th Anniversary Edition: How to Give and Receive Joy Every Day of Your Life”, p.24, Conari Press
“I don't have a special place or ritual for writing songs, basically I write songs whenever an idea hits me, in my hotel room, on the road, in the plane.”
“I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom, too many rights that allow people to be irresponsible.”
“How hard, how desperately hard, is the way of the experimenter in art!”

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