Life is Simple

“Life is pretty simple. It is to be valued for our talents, to be loved and have someone to love, to work at something worthwhile, to possess at least one close friend, to have no wants of food or shelter, to be remembered when we pass, and to leave the world better for our children and grandchildren.”
--Jeffrey Fry

Food for a Lifetime

“If you want food for a year, grow rice; if you want food for a decade, grow trees; if you want food for a lifetime, grow people.”
--Chinese Proverb

Fool Cannot Understand

“A spoon cannot taste the food it carries. Likewise, a foolish man cannot understand the wise man’s wisdom even if he associates with a sage.”
--Dalai Lama

Your Effort

“God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.”
--Josiah Gilbert Holland

Food as Medicine

“Eat your food as medicine, otherwise you will need to eat your medicine as food.”
--Unknown

Salty Wit

“Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.”
--William Hazlitt

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Debt Not Tax Not

“To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and in our comforts, in our labor and in our amusements. If we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy.”
--Thomas Jefferson

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Merry Values

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
--J.R.R. Tolkien