Hero, Vol. 2 Quotes
“Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.”
-Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.”
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.”
-Hippocrates
“A fit, healthy body—that is the best fashion statement.”
-Jess C Scott
“I continue to be drawn to clarity and simplicity.
‘Less is more’ remains my mantra.”
-Stephane Rolland
“You wear a mask for so long,
you forget who you were beneath it.”
-Alan Moore
“I totally regret eating healthy today.”
-No One Ever
“All fungi are edible.
Some fungi are only edible once.”
-Terry Pratchett
“Non-violence leads to the highest ethics,
which is the goal of all evolution.
Until we stop harming all other living beings,
we are still savages.”
-Thomas A. Edison
“It is not that I’m so smart.
But I stay with the questions much longer.”
-Albert Einstein
“Success is getting what you want,
happiness is wanting what you get”
-W.P. Kinsella
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”
-William Shakespeare
“The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them:
that’s the essence of inhumanity.”
-George Bernard Shaw
“Patience is not the ability to wait.
Patience is to be calm no matter what happens,
constantly take action to turn it to positive growth opportunities, and have faith to believe that it will
all work out in the end while you are waiting.”
-Roy T. Bennett
“There is something profoundly satisfying about
sharing a meal. Eating together, breaking bread together,
is one of the oldest and most fundamentally unifying of human experiences.”
-Barbara Coloroso
“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.”
-Oscar Wilde
“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
-Virginia Woolf
“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
-J.R.R. Tolkien
“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”
-Henry David Thoreau
“The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of the human race than the discovery of a star.”
-Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
“We all love animals.
Why do we call some ‘pets’ and others ‘dinner?’”
-K.D. Lang
“After a full belly, all is poetry.”
-Frank McCourt
“The dwarf bread was brought out for inspection.
But it was miraculous, the dwarf bread.
No one ever went hungry when they had some
dwarf bread to avoid. You only had to look at it
for a moment, and instantly you could think
of dozens of things you’d rather eat.
Your boots, for example.
Mountains.
Raw sheep.
Your own foot.”
-Terry Pratchett
“Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone,
it has to be made, like bread;
remade all the time, made new.”
-Ursula K. Le Guin
“To you who eat a lot of rice because you’re lonely,
To you who sleep a lot because you’re bored,
To you who cry a lot because you are sad,
I write this down.
Chew on your feelings that are cornered
like you would chew on rice.
Anyway, life is something that you need to digest.”
-Chun Yang Hee
“I like rice. Rice is great if you’re hungry and want 2000 of something. ”
-Mich Ehrenborg
“The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love, and death.”
-E. M. Forster
“This wasn’t just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible.
This was terrible with raisins in it.”
-Dorothy Parker
“Anyone who tells a lie has not pure heart, and cannot make good soup.”
-Ludwig van Beethoven
“One should eat to live, not live to eat.”
-Benjamin Franklin
“It shouldn’t be the consumer’s responsibility to figure out what’s cruel and what’s kind, what’s environmentally destructive and what’s sustainable. Cruel and destructive food products should be illegal. We don’t need the option of buying children’s toys made with lead paint, or aerosols with chlorofluorocarbons, or medicines with unlabeled side effects. And we don’t need the option of buying factory-farmed animals.”
-Jonathan Safran Foer
“The philosopher Diogenes was eating bread and lentils
for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus,
who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient
to the king, you would not have to live on lentils.’
Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’”
-Anthony de Mello
“Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.”
-Albert Einstein
“My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.”
-Orson Welles
“He showed the words ‘chocolate cake’ to a group
of Americans and recorded their word associations.
‘Guilt’ was the top response. If that strikes you
as unexceptional, consider the response of French eaters
to the same prompt: ‘celebration.’”
-Michael Pollan
“’I make it a rule to try everything,’ she said. ‘Don’t you think it would be very annoying if you tasted ginger for the first time on your deathbed, and found you never liked anything so much? I should be so exceedingly annoyed that I think I should get well on that account alone.’”
-Virginia Woolf
“‘Have you tried the cinnamon things?’ Poppet asks.
‘They’re rather new. What are they called, Widge?’
‘Fantastically delicious cinnamon things?’”
-Erin Morgenstern
“All sorrows are less with bread.”
-Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
“When the heat is on,
make sure you’re not that first pancake.”
-Wyatt B. Pringle Jr.
“Cooking is at once child’s play and adult joy.
And cooking done with care is an act of love.”
-Craig Claiborne
“If God had intended us to follow recipes,
He wouldn’t have given us grandmothers.”
-Linda Henley
“The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.”
-Og Mandino
“Knowledge is the food of the soul.”
-Plato
“The beginning is the most important part of the work.”
-Plato
“A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will’s freedom after it.”
-Aldous Huxley
“The history of every major galactic civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why, and Where phases. For instance, the first phase is characterized by the question ‘How can we eat?’ the second by the question ‘Why do we eat?’ and the third by the question ‘Where shall we have lunch?’”
-Douglas Adams
“I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.”
-William Shakespeare
“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
-Robert Louis Stevenson
“Finish each day and be done with it.
You have done what you could.
Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in;
forget them as soon as you can.
Tomorrow is a new day.
You shall begin it serenely
and with too high a spirit to be
encumbered with your old nonsense.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in—what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.”
-Victor Hugo
“Gardens and flowers have a way of bringing people together, drawing them from their homes.”
-Clare Ansberry
“Our homes do not have to offer us permanent occupancy or store our clothes to merit the name. To speak of home in relation to a building is simply to recognize its harmony with our own prized internal song. Home can be an airport or a library, a garden or a motorway diner.”
-Alain De Botton
“When you reach the little house, the place your journey started, you will recognize it, although it will seem much smaller than you remember. Walk up the path, and through the garden gate you never saw before but once. And then go home.
Or make a home. And rest.”
-Neil Gaiman
“Success comes from the inside out.
In order to change what is on the outside,
you must first change what is on the inside.”
-Idowu Koyenikan
“When we love, we always strive to
become better than we are. When we
strive to become better than we are,
everything around us becomes better too.”
-Paulo Coelho
“I always get suspicious whenever someone suggests that it’s the fruit in their diet that’s making them fat. I’ve seen a lot of crazy things in my time, but I’ve yet to encounter anyone whose admitted to polishing off a bag of apples while watching Dancing with the Stars.”
-Shelby Starnes
“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference.
The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference.
The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference.
And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.”
-Elie Wiesel
“Let the improvement of yourself
keep you so busy that you have
no time to criticize others.”
-Roy T. Bennett
“We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
-Aristotle
“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth
can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.”
-Thomas Jefferson
“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
-Dr. Seuss
“Exercise is king, nutrition is queen—
put them together and you’ve got a kingdom.”
-Jack LaLanne
“You are not fat. You have fat.
You also have fingernails,
but you are not fingernails.”
-Steve Maraboli
“There is always going to be a reason why you
can’t do something; your job is to constantly look
for the reasons why you can achieve your dreams.”
-Shannon Miller
“Instead of indulging in ‘comfort food,’ indulge in comfort meditation, comfort journaling, comfort walking, comfort talking, comfort manicures, comfort reading, comfort yoga, and comfort hugging.”
-Karen Salmansohn
“I’m interested in women’s health because I’m a woman.
I’d be a darn fool not to be on my own side.”
-Maya Angelou
“To me, good health is more than just exercise and diet.
It’s really a point of view and a mental attitude
you have about yourself.”
-Albert Schweitzer
“There is no chatting,
looking at members of the opposite sex,
watching TV,
fooling around with your phone
(absolutely no phone),
taking a drink of water,
or going to the bathroom.
Just training.
Your session is barely half an hour long;
stay focused.”
-Pavel Tsatsouline
“How do you build up your bank account?
By putting something in it every day. Your health account
is no different. What I do today, I am wearing tomorrow.
If I put inferior foods in my body today, I’m going to
be inferior tomorrow, it’s that simple.”
-Jack LaLanne
“Numbers are an abstraction, especially to muscles. Your body doesn’t know the absolute weight of what you lift; it only recognizes how heavy it feels. The secret is to make lighter weights feel heavier.”
-Frank Zane
“Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky.
Conscious breathing is my anchor.”
-Thich Nhat Hanh
“Stimulate, don’t Annihilate.”
-Lee Haney
“If you can’t explain the essence of your program to a
three-year-old in 60 seconds, it’s too complicated.
I’ve trained with Olympic medal winners and I
can assure you, they don’t do anything mysterious,
they just do the exercises better than we do.”
-Maik Weidenbach
“No man has the right to be an amateur in the
matter of physical training. It is a shame for
a man to grow old without seeing the beauty
and strength of which his body is capable.”
-Socrates
“When we feel weak, we drop our heads on the shoulders
of others. Don’t get mad when someone does that.
Be honored. For that person trusted you enough to,
even if subtly, ask you for help.”
-Lori Goodwin
“If someone tells you calories don’t matter,
they have no credibility. But if someone tells you
calories are all that matters, they have even less.”
-Martin Berkhan
“To be entertained is a passive state—it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle. Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.”
-Abraham Joshua Heschel
“If a man knows not to which port he sails,
no wind is favorable.”
-Seneca
“Strong people have a strong sense of self-worth and self-awareness; they don’t need the approval of others.”
-Roy T. Bennett
“Since it is so likely that children will meet
cruel enemies, let them at least heard of
Brave Knights and Heroic Courage.”
-C.S. Lewis
“You can be anything you want.
But you must be strong first.”
-Pavel Tsatsouline
“Strength must build up, not destroy. It should outdo itself, not others who are weaker. Used without responsibility, it causes nothing but harm and death. I can lift the heaviest weights, but I cannot take the responsibility off my shoulders. Because the way we use our strength defines our fate. What traces will I leave on my path into the future? Do we really have to kill in order to live? My true strength lies in not seeing weakness as weakness. My strength needs no victims. My strength is my compassion.”
-Patrik Baboumian
“There’s more to life than training,
but training is what puts more in your life.”
-Brooks Kubik
“The Iron never lies to you. You can walk outside and
listen to all kinds of talk, get told that you’re a god or
a total bastard. The Iron will always kick you the real deal. The Iron is the great reference point, the all-knowing perspective giver. Always there like a beacon in the pitch black. I have found the Iron to be my greatest friend. It never freaks out on me, never runs. Friends may come and go.
But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds.”
-Henry Rollins
“The single biggest mistake that most beginners make is putting 100% of their effort into the positive part of the rep, while paying no attention to the negative segment.”
-Dorian Yates
“Sell yourself short on nutrition and you’re selling yourself short on maximizing your physique development.”
-Ernie Taylor
“Imagine the pressure in an NBA championship game
to make that winning shot. Most people will never feel
the burden or the glory of shooting the winning basket in
the NBA. But we have the opportunity to be the hero in
other ways. Our country, our economy, and a lot of
families are facing challenging times. When times
are hard, heroes rise up. Tough times don’t create
heroes, but challenges reveal the hero inside of us.
Even though a chosen one will get the glory,
that isn’t their number one motivation.
A hero wants to make an impact and leave a legacy.
He has a sense of responsibility to a cause.”
-Patrick Bet-David
“Most champions are built by punch-the-clock workouts rather than extraordinary efforts.”
-Dan John
“O snail
Climb Mount Fuji
But slowly, slowly!”
-Kobayashi Issa
“There is no such thing as over training,
just under nutrition and under sleeping.”
-The Barbarian Brothers
“Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.”
-Roy T. Bennett
“A real decision is measured by the fact that
you’ve taken a new action. If there’s no action,
you haven’t truly decided.”
-Tony Robbins
“All things are poisons,
for there is nothing without poisonous qualities.
It is only the dose which makes a thing poison.”
-Paracelsus
“Never give up.
No one knows what’s going to happen next.”
-L. Frank Baum
“Everyone holds his future in his own hands, like a sculptor, the raw material he will fashion into a figure. But it’s the same with that type of artistic activity as with all others:
We are merely born with the capability to do it.
The skill to mold the material into what we want
must be learned and attentively cultivated.”
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“One should eat to live, not live to eat.”
-Benjamin Franklin
“Masculinity isn’t toxic.
The absence of it is.
Weak men are abusive and spiteful.
Strong, masculine men are protective and loving.”
-Jordan Peterson
“Risk more than others think is safe.
Care more than others think is wise.
Dream more than others think is practical.
Expect more than others think is possible.”
-Frank Zane
“Working chest, delts, tris, and biceps works approximately 10% of your overall lean body mass. Working hard on deadlifts or squatting works more like 70% of your musculature at once and sends a strong message to your body to get better at growing now!”
-Wesley Silveira
“Sorrow can be a bully.”
-Amy Waldman
“The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison.”
-Ann Wigmore
“Just because it’s natural doesn’t mean you can be
as stupid as you want with it.”
-Susan Lynn Peterson
“A person who has not done one half his day’s work
by ten o’clock, runs a chance of leaving
the other half undone.”
-Emily Bronte
“Sometimes it takes a good fall
to really know where you stand.”
-Hayley Williams
“He who cures a disease may be the skill-fullest,
but he that prevents it is the safest physician.”
-Thomas Fuller
“Doing the perfect kettlebell swing alone is superior to
99 percent of the sophisticated strength and
conditioning programs out there.”
-Pavel Tsatsouline
“No disease that can be treated by diet
should be treated with any other means.”
-Maimonides
“This is the real secret of life—to be completely engaged
with what you are doing in the here and now.
And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.”
-Alan Watts
“To feel strong, to walk amongst humans with
a tremendous feeling of confidence and superiority
is not at all wrong. The sense of superiority
in bodily strength is borne out by the long
history of mankind paying homage in folklore,
song, and poetry to strong men.”
-‘Dr. Squat’ Fred Hatfield
“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words
and that which cannot remain silent.”
-Victor Hugo
“This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
-William Shakespeare
“People learn something every day, and a lot of times it’s that what they learned the day before was wrong.”
-Bill Vaughan
Dare to Be
“When a new day begins, dare to smile gratefully.
When there is darkness, dare to be the first to shine a light.
When there is injustice, dare to be the first to condemn it.
When something seems difficult, dare to do it anyway.
When life seems to beat you down, dare to fight back.
When there seems to be no hope, dare to find some.
When you’re feeling tired, dare to keep going.
When times are tough, dare to be tougher.
When love hurts you, dare to love again.
When someone is hurting, dare to help them heal.
When another is lost, dare to help them find the way.
When a friend falls, dare to be the first to extend a hand.
When you cross paths with another, dare to make them smile.
When you feel great, dare to help someone else feel great too.
When the day has ended,
dare to feel as you’ve done your best.
Dare to be the best you can –
At all times, Dare to be!”
-Steve Maraboli
“Do the best you can until you know better.
Then when you know better, do better.”
-Maya Angelou
“If you think lifting weights is dangerous,
try being weak. Being weak is dangerous.”
-Bret Contreras
“The kettlebell:
An ancient Russian weapon against weakness.”
-Pavel Tsatsouline
“We are healthy only to the extent
that our ideas are humane.”
-Kurt Vonnegut
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing:
the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude
in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
-Viktor E. Frankl
“If you light a lamp for someone else,
it will also brighten your path.”
-Buddha