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“After initial needs are metenough food, shelter, comfortthere is no correlation between money and happiness. That's a difficult thing for people to believe.”

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Geneen Roth

Geneen Roth is a renowned author known for her books on eating, eating disorders, and self-acceptance. more

“I think we all have a hunger that's hard to name. A lot of people who come to my retreats have never named it before, or else they've named it in church, but they can't actually see the connection between what they're doing with food and this yearning. I call it "the flame" that they have: They yearn for big answers to live a big life. But they have to start with the most basic fears.”

People Thinking Hard Bigs Names Church Answers Connections Hunger Flames Yearning Retreat

Author:Geneen Roth

“How you eat is how you live. How you do anything is how you do everything.”

Author:Geneen Roth

“It's a funny thing - when I'm crazed with work, spending time with my children relaxes me. Yet, at the end of a long weekend with them, the very thing I need to relax is a little work and time away from them!”

Needs Children Littles Long Ends Spending My Children Relax Weekend Funny Things Spending Time Time Away Long Weekend

Author:Emily Giffin

“What is pronounced these days is staying on the Internet for hours. It's really about distraction. We are living in such an over stimulated culture. There's a nervous energy of always having to be focused out there. People have a hard time just being happy, settled, and content. We're not taught how to just be by ourselves, be present. We always want to change the channel in our minds because we don't like what's going on. It's uncomfortable.”

People Want Mind Hard Culture Energy Hours Taught Internet Focused Nervous These Days Uncomfortable Hard Times Staying Distraction Just Being

Author:Geneen Roth

“The process is the goal.”

Process Goal

Book:Appetites: On the Search for True Nourishment

Source: Appetites: On the Search for True Nourishment

“If there are any cages in this marriage, it is I who have built them. And I who hold the key to their locks.”

Ifs Keys Built Locks Cages

Book:Appetites: On the Search for True Nourishment

Source: Appetites: On the Search for True Nourishment

“Ah Franion, treason is loved of many, but the Traitor hated of all: unjust offences may for a time escape without danger, but never without revenge.”

May Danger Revenge Hated Unjust Traitor Treason Offence

Book:Greene's

Source: Greene's

“Ah, were she pitiful as she is fair,Or but as mild as she is seeming so,Then were my hopes greater than my despair,Then all the world were heaven, nothing woe.”

World Heaven Greater Despair Fairs Woe Seeming Pitiful

Book:The dramatic and poetical works: With memoirs of the authors and notes

Source: The dramatic and poetical works: With memoirs of the authors and notes

“Sovereign of beauty, like the spray she grows;Compass'd she is with thorns and canker'd bower.Yet, were she willing to be pluck'd and worn,She would be gather'd, though she grew on thorn.”

Would Be Grows Willing Grew Worn Sovereign Compass Thorns Spray Pluck

Author:Robert Greene

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