Samuel Johnson Quote by Gretchen Rubin

“When it comes to fake food, I’m like Samuel Johnson, who remarked, “Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.”

— Gretchen Rubin

“The only excuse for self indulgence is to learn that the objects we crave are overrated and don't satisfy our hunger, which is spiritual.”

— Henry Makow

“I love food, but it is so difficult to enjoy food. It is so difficult to believe I am allowed to enjoy food. Mostly,…

— Roxane Gay

“It's pitiful to have a life in which junk food is awarded the same high status as sex.”

— Sue Grafton

“And when all feels hopeless, remember that you are in charge of what goes into your body, you don't answer to anyone, and you…

— Rory Freedman

“Eat all the junk food you want as long as you cook it yourself. There”

— Michael Pollan

“I came to hate how everything gets junked in America: the food processed and adulterated with sugar and fat; the clothes cheapened; the TV…

— Orna Ross

“Do not be controlled by your cravings.”

— Eduvie Donald

Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] - 'I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hamburger.' What a sexy little…

— Russell Brand

“The secular, for all its goodness, does not defend itself very well against mindless and perpetual consumption. It cries out to be offered by…

— Robert Farrar Capon

“To make eating functional, allow yourself to eat what you want without judgment, and limit quantity, using the body’s signal.”

— Robin Phipps Woodall

“Once you compromise your integrity, you make it easier to give in to temptation the next time.”

— Frank Sonnenberg