Geneen Roth Quotes

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• For some reason, we are truly convinced that if we criticize ourselves, the criticism will lead to change. If we are harsh, we believe we…
• All any feeling wants is to be welcomed with tenderness. It wants room to unfold. It wants to relax and tell its story. It wants…
• Our work is not to change what you do, but to witness what you do with enough awareness, enough curiosity, enough tenderness that the lies…
• Compulsive eating is only the symptom; believing that you are not worth your own love is the problem. Go for the love. You will never…
• Staying requires being curious about who you actually are when you don't take yourself to be a collection of memories.When you don't infer your existence…
• Ask yourself if you are in this for the long run-if it's only your weight you want to change or if you are willing to…
• If you try to lose weight by shaming, depriving and fearing yourself, you will end up shamed, deprived, and afraid. Kindness comes first. Always.
• The real work of this life is not what we do every day from 9-5...The real work is to be passionate, be holy, be wild,…
• Chocolate ... is not something you can take or leave, something you like only moderately. You dont like chocolate. You dont even love chocolate. Chocolate…
• . . . hell is wanting to be somewhere different from where you are. Being one place and wanting to be somewhere else . .…
• Freedom from obsession is not about something you do; it's about knowing who you are. It's about recognizing what sustains you and what exhausts you.…
• It's never been true, not anywhere at any time, that the value of a soul, of a human spirit, is dependent on a number on…
• Imagine not being frightened by any feeling. Imagine knowing that nothing will destroy you. That you are beyond any feeling, and state. Bigger than. Vaster…
• Change, if it is to be long lasting, must occur on the unseen levels first
• It's the nature of hearts to break. It's in their job description. When a heart is doing what it's supposed to be doing, it holds…
• I believe in love. And beauty. I believe that every single person has something they find beautiful and that they truly love. The smell of…
• Treat yourself as if you already are enough. Walk as if you are enough. Eat as if you are enough. See, look, listen as if…
• Most of us spend our lives protecting ourselves from losses that have already happened.
• And if you worry that not finishing the food on your plate is a slap in the face of all the hungry people everywhere, you…
• What you pay attention to grows. Pay attention to your loveliness, your magnificent self. Begin now.

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