Fear Quote by Geneen Roth Download Open image “We eat the way we eat because we are afraid to feel what we feel.” — Geneen Roth ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fear Feels Way
We live not in order to eat, but in order not to know what we feel like eating. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“...we eat not so much for pleasure as we do to ward off an awful feeling...The fear of hunger is deeply rooted, and food… — Michael Moss Copy Share Image
I believe in eating. I think women especially have this fear of eating, and I think there is a whole euphoric plane you can… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
The way you eat is inseparable from your core beliefs about being alive. Your relationship with food is an exact mirror of your feelings… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
... the way we eat represents our most profound engagement with the natural world. Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Food is intensely pleasurable, and people are afraid that if they change the way they eat, they'll stop having pleasure. — John Mackey Copy Share Image
We are to eat food otherwise we don't live and sometimes we eat food that is very damaging. — Laura Huxley Copy Share Image
there are many ways of eating, for some eating is living for some eating is dying, for some thinking about ways of eating gives… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Food is a coping mechanism; people are afraid of giving it up because then they'll feel confused and lost. — Phil McGraw Copy Share Image
For some reason, we are truly convinced that if we criticize ourselves, the criticism will lead to change. If we are harsh, we believe… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
“Most of us are so enthralled with the scary tigers in our minds--our stories of loneliness, rejection, grief--that we don't realize they are in… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
Most of our suffering comes from resisting what is already here, particularly our feelings. All any feeling wants is to be welcomed, touched, allowed.… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
The relentless attempts to be thin take you further and further away from what could actually end your suffering: getting back in touch with… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
I tell my retreat students that they need to remember two things: to eat what they want when they're hungry and to feel what… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
After initial needs are metenough food, shelter, comfortthere is no correlation between money and happiness. That's a difficult thing for people to believe. — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
“When you ignore your belly, you become homeless. You spend your life trying to erase your own existence. Apologizing for yourself. Feeling like a… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
“People often mistake tenderheartedness for indulgence, as if being kind to themselves leads to lethargy—sitting around the house all day eating bonbons and wearing… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
If you pay attention to when you are hungry, what your body wants, what you are eating, when you've had enough, you end the… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
“Pay careful attention to the bodily sensations that you recognize as hunger. When you feel yourself starting to get hungry, sit down for a… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
The purpose of healing is to live while you are alive instead of dying while you are alive. Healing is about being broken and… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
“But replacing hunger for divine connection with Double Stuf Oreos is like giving a glass of sand to a person dying of thirst. It… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
This may sound strange, but although I feel like I know everything about my characters, the brand of shampoo they use, how many cavities… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
“That horrible stinging sensation returned, the muscles behind my eyes straining as the first tear began to fall. “I’m scared, too. For eighteen months… — Devon Ashley Copy Share Image
“...Often that which most we fear births the resolve that spurs us on to altitudes we could not have achieved, had we continued walking… — M.T. Anderson Copy Share Image
“Anything that you find yourself worrying about regularly may find you suddenly wanting unrealistic changes.” — Nagisa Tatsumi Copy Share Image
“We all know how the thing we secretly fear is not a secret at all but the open and eternal thing that predicts its… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone… — Alexander Gordon Smith Copy Share Image
“I had nowhere to go and did not wish to be seen by anyone for fear they would recognize my sadness and so for… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
“Snip off the little worries and expressions of worry” like little branches atop a tall tree.28 If you are truly worried, sharing your concerns… — Tim Sanders Copy Share Image
“Fear and desire for pleasure. Aggressiveness comes out of fear, predominantly, and sexuality predominantly out of the other. But they mix in the middle.… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
