Asceticism Quote by Mason Cooley Download Open image “Dieting is our last tie with asceticism.” — Mason Cooley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Asceticism Dieting Lasts Ties
“An aspirational diet will have you dreaming of success; but it’s the attachment of expectations and tangible goals that feeds the desire, persistence, and… — Lorii Myers Copy Share Image
Dieting: A system of starving yourself to death so you can live a little longer. — Jan Murray Copy Share Image
The first thing to understand about nutritionism is that it is not the same thing as nutrition. As the "-ism" suggests, it is not… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Although dieting is a long standing American pastime, as a method of losing weight it stinks.” — Kelly McGonigal Copy Share Image
“We come from a mindset that suggests diets are temporary tortures we must endure,” says Debb. And when we’re done, “then we have permission… — Mika Brzezinski Copy Share Image
“The physical vanity of the diet-and-exercise obsessive is recast as the pursuit of a kind of ritual purity, hedged about with taboos and guilt… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
Anybody knows, when you're focusing on your body, dieting is 90 percent of the battle. — Trent Williams Copy Share Image
I finally understood that by being on a perpetual diet, I had practiced a "disordered" form of eating my whole life. I restricted when… — Portia de Rossi Copy Share Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The religion of art, like the religion of politics, was born from the ruins of Christianity. Art inherited from the old religion the power… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things! — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The beauty of a cuckoo is in its notes, that of a woman in her unalloyed devotion to her husband, that of an ugly… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
“In his treatise on the battles between the gods underlying ancient Dionysian theatre, the young Nietzsche notes: 'Alas! The magic of these struggles is… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
Catholicism is not ritualism; it may in the future be fighting some sort of superstitious and idolatrous exaggeration of ritual. Catholicism is not asceticism;… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The main motive for nonattachment is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
When you reach your sixties, you have to decide whether you're going to be a sot or an ascetic. In other words if you… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Everybody who does not live in a prostitute's bed and on a diet of cocaine snow is called an ascetic nowadays. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Genuine asceticism for finding one's own soul and for the good of humanity is worthy of reverence. — Rama Swami Copy Share Image
Many modern scholars have found the asceticism expressed in Plato unacceptable; it does not sound like the advice of a reasonable man in the… — Thomas McEvilley Copy Share Image
The dunyâ distracts and preoccupies the heart and body, but al-zuhd (asceticism, not giving importance to worldly things) gives rest to the heart and… — Hasan of Basra Copy Share Image
Asceticism is the right way of thinking for those who have to extirpate their sensual drives because they are ravening beasts of prey. But… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
