"Fasting is the first principle of medicine." — Rumi

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• Periodic fasting can help clear up the mind and strengthen the body and the spirit. — Ezra Taft Benson
• To become grateful, I must learn that I can handle disappointment and delayed gratification with grace and perseverance. This is… — John Ortberg
• `Freedom` means freedom from the mind. Then you are simply in a silence, and in that silence you melt, you… — Rajneesh
• Eid is a time of joy, after a season of fasting and prayer and reflection. Each year, the end of… — George W. Bush
• The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which… — Henri Frederic Amiel
• Do you fast? Then feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, visit the sick, do not forget the imprisoned,… — Saint John Chrysostom
• The goal of fasting is inner unity. — Thomas Merton
• Prayer, fasting, vigils, and all other Christian practices, however good they may be in themselves, certainly do not constitute the… — Seraphim of Sarov
• To discipline ourselves through fasting brings us in tune with God, and fast day provides an occasion to set aside… — Howard W. Hunter
• There are some who died because they were fasting, and they were crammed in tight. — Thaksin Shinawatra
• It dawned upon me that fasting could be made as powerful a weapon of indulgence as of restraint — Mahatma Gandhi
• Satisfaction consists in the cutting off of the causes of the sin. Thus, fasting is the proper antidote to lust;… — Unknown Author

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