Freedom is not having everything we crave, it's being able to go without the things we crave and being OK with it.
Ive learned from dieting and not dieting that literally the thing that works best for me is that if I think of it, I better go ahead and have it.
The gospel has done its work in us when we crave God more than we crave everything else in life - more than money, romance, family, health, fame - and when seeing His kingdom advance in the lives of others gives us more joy than anything we could own. When we see Jesus as greater than anything the world can offer, we'll gladly let everything else go to possess Him.
I was realizing, 'I work out all the time. Why can't I drop this weight?' It's really food. So I started dieting a little.
When you're a child, you crave formal recognition; you crave ceremony, celebration, certification of proof.
The bassoon is one of my favorite instruments. It has a medieval aroma, like the days when everything used to sound like that. Some people crave baseball...I find this unfathomable, but I can easily understand why a person could get excited about playing the bassoon.
People crave a conspiracy for the same reason they crave a god.
I crave time in Yosemite like I crave food and water.
I'm not vegetarian. I eat what I crave, but most of the time I don't crave meat.
We don't “crave” animal-based meat, dairy, and eggs, but we do crave fat, salt, flavor, texture, and familiarity.
I do lot of weight training, I eat everything as well. I don't believe in starving or dieting. So that's basically how I got fit.
Chinese no longer crave so much for food and accommodation, but they do crave democracy. I stand by that. I don't know which model China will follow.
There are studies that tell us that stress and lack of self-image, lack of self-esteem, severe dieting, binge dieting and binge eating can also be very damaging to a body and bring on various kinds of abnormalities.
No one welcomes chaos, but why crave stability and predictability?
The Diet Mentality has come about because there is agreement in our society that the only way to lose weight is by dieting. But dieting produces absolutely no permanent, positive results. In fact, it makes you feel worse about yourself and probably does more damage than good to your health.
Why would a man not argue his own shameful culpability, why would he not crave responsibility for disaster, when the alternative was to feel himself to be nothing more than a speck of human dust?