John Joseph > Quotes

“The point is, what separates finishers from quitters in any aspect of life is that finishers know how to silence the mind when it kicks up those demons of doubt.”
― John Joseph, Meat Is for Pussies: A How-To Guide for Dudes Who Want to Get Fit, Kick Ass, and Take Names

“truth passes through three phases: FIRST, it is ridiculed. SECOND, it is fiercely and violently opposed. THIRD, it becomes self-evident.”
― John Joseph, Meat Is for Pussies: A How-To Guide for Dudes Who Want to Get Fit, Kick Ass, and Take Names

“Resistance is always lying and always full of shit.”
― John Joseph, Meat Is for Pussies: A How-To Guide for Dudes Who Want to Get Fit, Kick Ass, and Take Names

“Happiness is forged through struggles, challenges, and failures to elucidate personal growth, self-knowledge, and ultimately fulfillment. It is achieved through selfless service to others, as well as to the authentic self within.”
― John Joseph, Meat Is for Pussies: A How-To Guide for Dudes Who Want to Get Fit, Kick Ass, and Take Names

“data from our very own U.S. Department of Agriculture says that over the first thirteen years of commercial use of GMO crops (1996–2008), herbicide use in the United States increased by 383 million pounds.13”
― John Joseph, Meat Is for Pussies: A How-To Guide for Dudes Who Want to Get Fit, Kick Ass, and Take Names

“avoidance of bad food and interactions with shitty people is the key to happiness.”
― John Joseph, Meat Is for Pussies: A How-To Guide for Dudes Who Want to Get Fit, Kick Ass, and Take Names

“You can buy pH test strips at any health food store—you just wet one with saliva and it will tell you where you are on the scale.”
― John Joseph, Meat Is for Pussies: A How-To Guide for Dudes Who Want to Get Fit, Kick Ass, and Take Names

“what separates finishers from quitters in any aspect of life is that finishers know how to silence the mind when it kicks up those demons of doubt.”
― John Joseph, Meat Is for Pussies: A How-To Guide for Dudes Who Want to Get Fit, Kick Ass, and Take Names

“you should “stack” what you are eating throughout the day in this order: water, raw juice, raw foods, and then cooked food. Why? Because if you place raw foods or juice on top of cooked foods like grains, beans, etc., which take four to six hours to digest, they will ferment and thus you will lose their nutritional benefits. Raw foods, especially fresh-pressed juice, become assimilated almost immediately because they have their own live enzymes to help in absorption and digestion. So when you sequence what you eat you get all the power from these foods. Nothing is wasted.”
― John Joseph, Meat Is for Pussies: A How-To Guide for Dudes Who Want to Get Fit, Kick Ass, and Take Names

“You need only about 56 grams of protein a day, which is roughly the amount in a cup each of beans and brown rice and a peanut butter sandwich on whole wheat bread.”
― John Joseph, Meat Is for Pussies: A How-To Guide for Dudes Who Want to Get Fit, Kick Ass, and Take Names

“Recently a KFC franchise advertised a promotion to help fight juvenile diabetes. If you bought a half gallon of soda, what they call the “Mega Jug,” which contains a whopping 800 calories and 56 spoonfuls of white sugar, they would donate one whole fucking dollar to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.”
― John Joseph, Meat Is for Pussies: A How-To Guide for Dudes Who Want to Get Fit, Kick Ass, and Take Names

“Resistance has no conscience. It will pledge anything to get a deal then double-cross you as soon as your back is turned. If you take resistance at its word, you deserve everything you get. Resistance is always lying and always full of shit.”
― John Joseph, Meat Is for Pussies: A How-To Guide for Dudes Who Want to Get Fit, Kick Ass, and Take Names

“It’s no secret that becoming healthy requires a commitment to exercising—and that means you need to stop being a lazy pussy.”
― John Joseph, Meat Is for Pussies: A How-To Guide for Dudes Who Want to Get Fit, Kick Ass, and Take Names