Building Quote by Eric Hoffer

This food-and-shelter theory concerning man's efforts is without insight. The desire for praise is more imperative than the desire for food and shelter

— Eric Hoffer

“Being human means yearning for more than subsistence. As much as food or shelter, we require hope.”

— Jessica Bruder

The meager satisfaction that man can extract from reality leaves him starving.

— Sigmund Freud

“. . . .how and what we eat determines to a great extent the use we make of the world--and what is to become…

— Michael Pollan

“But for them—as for anyone—survival isn’t enough. So what began as a last-ditch effort has become a battle cry for something greater. Being human…

— Jessica Bruder

“When we fail to express our needs, we remain islands unto ourselves—detached, alone, arrogant, and proud. But when we expose our needs, we are…

— Henry Cloud

The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.

— William James

“THE FIVE CONTEMPLATIONS 1.This food is a gift of the Earth, the sky, numerous living beings, and much hard and loving work. 2.May we…

— Thich Nhat Hanh

“In the end, the claim that just social structures would make works of charity superfluous masks a materialist conception of man: the mistaken notion…

— Pope Benedict XVI

“Yet today there’s simply too much noise around the issues of food, hunger, and eating for us to listen to our own bodies. We…

— Linda Bacon

Our full humanity is contingent on our hospitality; we can be complete only when we are giving something away; when we sit at the…

— Alice Waters

Let us be satisfied simply with what sustains our present life, not with what pampers it. Let us pray to God for this, as…

— Maximus the Confessor