128 Quotes by Geneen Roth

The exquisite paradox of this engagement is that when the suffering is fully allowed, it dissolves.

Healing is about being awake. Being broken and whole at the same time.

The relentless attempts to be thin take you further and further away from what could actually end your suffering:.

You already have everything you need to be content. Your real work is to do whatever it takes to realize that.

Your relationship to food, no matter how conflicted, is the doorway to freedom.

You miss the life that happens in the middle zone – between now and what you think your life should be like. And when you miss those moments because you’d rather be doing something else, you are missing your own life. Those moments are gone. You will never get them back.

Chocolate, I am sure, is the concrete manifestation of love.

The process is the goal.

Your body is the piece of the universe you’ve been given, the place where love and joy and grief happen, where happiness unfolds. Do you really want to keep believing that it’s a horrible, ugly, lumpy thing? Do you really want to keep punching yourself like that?