Clear Quote by John Cassian

“Opposition to food can’t persist if there is no opponent. In the face of a child’s refusal to eat, the best parental response is…

— Karen Le Billon

You cannot control the primitive urges and hormones that drive your eating behavior.

— Mark Hyman

People who are hungry don't have the heart to think about others. Sometimes they can't even care for their own family. Hunger quashes man's…

— Anonymous

You can't be a parent and say, 'I need you to be more active and I need you to eat right,' when you're still…

— Bob Harper

Hunger and self-control do not go hand in hand.

— Kathy Freston

To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which one of the Fathers observes to be not a virtue, but…

— Samuel Johnson

During that time in my life when I felt really out of control, food was just an issue for me, where it was either…

— Rachel Sennott

The child..will try to make himself..independent of other people. .. Excesses of appetite are self-cures for feelings of hopelessness. ..The child [uses] ‘doubt about…

— Adam Phillips

“At a certain point, an eating disorder ceases to be "about" any one thing. It stops being about your family, or your culture. Very…

— Marya Hornbacher

Eating constitutes the greatest obstacle to self-control; it gives rise to indolence.

— Mahavira

Who can control this when its appetite is aroused? No one! In the very movement of this appetite, then, it has no "mode" that…

— Saint Augustine

As an only child, particularly if you're a boy without a father, you have to work out for yourself who you're going to be.…

— Mark Strong