Lifestyle Quotes

Lifestyle is not an amount; it's a practice.

We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.

If we have the khadi spirit in us, then we should surround ourselves with simplicity in every walk of life.

When about 16 Years of Age, I happened to meet with a Book written by one Tryon, recommending a Vegetable Diet. I determined to go into it.... My refusing to eat Flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chid for my singularity.

And we have made of ourselves living cesspools, and driven doctors to invent names for our diseases.

Eating and sleeping are the only activities that should be allowed to interrupt a man's enjoyment of his cigar.

Sports are the reason I am out of shape. I watch them all on TV.

She liked to sit on the front porch in the afternoons and read books she'd checked out from the library. Aside from coffee, reading was her only indulgence.

My manner of living is plain. I do not mean to be put out of it. A glass of wine and a bit of mutton are always ready; and such as will be content to partake of them are always welcome. Those, who expect more, will be disappointed, but no change will be effected by it.

I have always felt cookbooks were fiction and the most beautiful words in the English language were 'room service.

The closer you can live to being a vegetarian the better.

Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china.

I find that the standard of living does not go up in proportion with the cost of living. The trick in life is to do things that are fun all the time.

Our clothing, our food, our household furnishings - all could be much simpler than they now are and at the same time be better looking

Of a life of luxury the fruit is luxury, whether in agriculture, or commerce, or literature, or art.

Poets are simply those who have made a profession and a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

I don't have maids or servants, and my husband and I love waking up early and going to the 24-hour supermarket when there is nobody else there.

I'm not on a health kick. I know I should take vitamins, for example, but I forget half the time. I just can't be bothered carrying around a lot of little bottles.

I'm happy when I can spend every day doing the things that I like to do. That's my luxury.

We all draw a little and compose a little, and none of us have any idea of time or money.

Of course I have played outdoor games. I once played dominoes in an open air cafe in Paris.

I am excessively fond of a cottage; there is always so much comfort, so much elegance about them. And I protest, if I had any money to spare, I should buy a little land and build one myself, within a short distance of London, where I might drive myself down at any time, and collect a few friends about me and be happy. I advise everybody who is going to build, to build a cottage.

On Saturday afternoons when all the things are done in the house and there's no real work to be done, I play Bach and Chopin and turn it up real loudly and get a good bottle of chardonnay and sit out on my deck and look out at the garden.

Becoming a vegan gave me another opportunity to live a healthy life. I was so congested from all the drugs and bad cocaine, I could hardly breathe, [I had] high blood pressure, [was] almost dying [and had] arthritis. And once I became a vegan all that stuff diminished.

I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and drink coarsely also.

I have tried getting up early, and I have tried getting up late-and the latter agrees with me best.

It's not that diabetes, heart disease, and obesity runs in your family...It's that no one runs in you family!

No well-run yacht basin in Southern waters is complete without at least two sun-burned, salt bleached-headed Esthonians who are waiting for a check from their last article. When it comes they will set sail to another yacht basin and write another saga.

I travel third-class because there is no fouth-class.

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.

Weight control does have to be for a lifetime or you'll be yo-yoing.

A farm is a good thing, when it begins and ends with itself, and does not need a salary, or a shop, to eke it out.

I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music.

I live. I travel. I eat. I pray. These are the things I do. I'd rather be in my condition than be a man with four children in a four-bedroom house, working hard every day to pay for his house, taking his children to school.

We are under exercised as a nation. We look instead of play. We ride instead of walk. Our existence deprives us of the minimum of physical activity essential for healthy living.

Live simply so that others may simply live.

My wife was easy because she trains [jiu-jitsu] all the time. She's pretty much on a completely different diet. I always just threw meat at her and she's happy on a 100 percent protein diet, so we seldom ate together.

This week I've been reading a lot and doing little work. That's the way things ought to be. That's surely the road to success.

When we make a true commitment to walk in love, it usually causes a huge shift in our lifestyle. Many of our ways - our thoughts, our conversation, our habits - have to change.

Agriculture is at the same time the most tranquil, healthy, and independent occupation.

You will eat not to satisfy your palate but your hunger. A self-indulgent man lives to eat; a self-restrained man eats to live.

People say they wish they were Michael Jordan. OK, do it for a year. Do it for two years. Do it for five years. When you get past the fun part, then go do the part where you get into cities at three a.m. and you have fifteen people waiting for autographs when you're as tired as hell.

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will.

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.

We had to be to the stadium at six o'clock for home games, and traffic was so bad it would take us an hour and fifteen or an hour and thirty minutes to drive. So now I'm sitting in a car for almost an hour and a half and I'm very tense. I'm worried about the traffic. So I started smoking a cigar going to the games.

The poodle [Rufus] ate in the dining room with the rest of the [Churchill] family. A cloth was laid for him on the Persian carpet beside the head of the household, and no one else ate until the butler had served Rufus's meal.

I have lived temperately, eating little animal food, and that not as an aliment, so much as a condiment for the vegetables, which constitute my principal diet.

I make my protein drink with whiskey. People think I'm crazy, but that's the way I am. I get stoned, I do my own thing.

Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.

I have always felt a little strange about it being so unique that I'm not a train wreck. Like, this weird fluke that I'm not - partying all the time.

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life.

He who advises a sick man, whose manner of life is prejudicial to health, is clearly bound first of all to change his patient's manner of life.

I've never had that much trouble with the paparazzi, but I don't run the same circles that a lot of these people that do get hounded by the paparazzi.

The way you cut your meat reflects the way you live.

I hate the present modes of living and getting a living. Farming and shopkeeping and working at a trade or profession are all odious to me. I should relish getting my living in a simple, primitive fashion.

Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book -I call that vicious!

Cover a war in a place where you can't drink beer or talk to a woman? Hell no!

For more than five years I maintained myself thus solely by the labour of my hands, and I found, that by working about six weeks in a year, I could meet all the expenses of living.