Top 100 Geneen Roth Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Geneen Roth

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2. “The process is the goal.”

— Geneen Roth

3. “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 you are enough. Because it’s true.”

— Geneen Roth

4. “You are not a mistake. You are not a problem to be solved. Treat yourself with outrageous kindness beginning today.”

— Geneen Roth

5. “The way you eat is inseparable from your core beliefs about being alive. Your relationship with food is an exact mirror of your feelings about love, fear, anger, meaning and transformation.”

— Geneen Roth

6. “If you want to eat when you’re not hungry, you’re hungry for something else.”

— Geneen Roth

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

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8. “People come and go, pain comes and goes. But so does joy. And if our hearts are closed because we don’t want to suffer, they won’t be open enough to recognize the joy as it flies by.”

— Geneen Roth

9. “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 than. That there is no reason to use drugs because anything a drug could do would pale in comparison to knowing who you are.”

— Geneen Roth

10. “Come back to yourself. Return to the voice of your body. Trust that much.”

— Geneen Roth

11. “Your body is the piece of the Universe youve been given.”

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12. “No act of love is ever wasted.”

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13. “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 to dissolve like a thousand writhing snakes that with a flick of kindness become harmless strands of rope.”

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14. “The way we do anything is the way we do everything. The way we eat is the way we live.”

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15. “What you pay attention to grows. Pay attention to your loveliness, your magnificent self. Begin now.”

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16. “If you think your job is to fix what is broken, you keep finding more broken places to mend.”

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17. “Real change happens bit by bit. It takes great effort to become effortless at anything. There are no quick fixes.”

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18. “Awareness is learning to keep yourself company. And then learn to be more compassionate company, as if you were somebody you are fond of and wish to encourage.”

— Geneen Roth

19. “The purpose of healing is to live while you are alive instead of dying while you are alive. Healing is about being broken and whole at the same time.”

— Geneen Roth

20. “Imagine treating yourself with the kindness that you show people you love.”

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21. “Take time to thank your body.”

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22. “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 they feel when they’re not.”

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23. “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 obsession because obsession and awareness cannot coexist.”

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24. “No matter how developed you are in any other area of your life, no matter what you say you believe, no matter how sophisticated or enlightened you think you are, how you eat tells all.”

— Geneen Roth

25. “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 use your eating patterns as a portal to the inner universe. And if the answer is the latter, then there is no end to what you can learn, be, understand, become.”

— Geneen Roth

26. “Most of us spend our lives protecting ourselves from losses that have already happened.”

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27. “When you believe in yourself more than you believe in food, you will stop using food as if it were your only chance at not falling apart. When the shape of your body no longer matches the shape of your beliefs, the weight disappears. And yes, it really is that simple.”

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28. “You can rescue yourself. No matter how you feel, no matter what you believe about your worth or your capacity to love and be loved, you can change.”

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29. “Change happens when you understand what you want to change so deeply that there is no reason to do anything but act in your own best interest.”

— Geneen Roth

30. “You don’t need a scale to tell you whether you’re allowed to like yourself today. You are. You belong here. No matter what you weigh, you deserve joy and happiness.”

— Geneen Roth

31. “If LOVE could talk to you about your relationship with food, what would it say?”

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32. “If we think our job here on earth is to fix ourselves, we will keep looking for the broken places. If we believe our job is to be kind, we will keep lavishing love on ourselves.”

— Geneen Roth

33. “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 nothing back. And sometimes it gets broken.”

— Geneen Roth

34. “The problem with fantasy is the greatest benefit of fantasy: it prevents us from living in the present moment.”

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35. “Ask: is what I’m doing and thinking right now bringing me closer to myself or farther away? Opening my heart or closing it? You have a choice.”

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36. “Awareness is a way you keep yourself company. When you are aware you are being compulsive, you are no longer locked in the behavior. You have a choice to stop. That choice – and therefore awareness itself – is freedom.”

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37. “Meditation is a tool to shake yourself awake.”

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38. “If you treat your feelings with as much love as you treat your dog or your cat or your child you’ll feel as if you were living in heaven.”

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39. “It’s not life in the present moment that is intolerable; the pain we are avoiding has already happened. We are living in reverse.”

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40. “Just because we live in an insane culture doesn’t mean we have to be insane too.”

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41. “Its not so much that we believe what we see, but that we see what we believe.”

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42. “There isn’t a someday. There never was. No one has ever been to the future that you keep putting your life on hold for. All we ever have is now.”

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43. “Weight loss does not make people happy. Or peaceful. Being thin does not address the emptiness that has no shape or weight or name. Even a wildly successful diet is a colossal failure because inside the new body is the same sinking heart.”

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44. “You can’t be stuck if you’re not trying to get anywhere. Which, to me, means that when you stop fighting with the way things are, magic happens. You relax, open, and any action you take comes from alignment with what’s true.”

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45. “Women turn to food when they are not hungry because they are hungry for something they can’t name: a connection to what is beyond the concerns of daily life. Something deathless, something sacred. But replacing the hunger for divine connection with Double Stuf Oreos is like giving a glass of sand to a person dying of thirst. It creates more thirst, more panic.”

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46. “It’s never been true, not anywhere at anytime, that the value of a soul, of a human spirit, is dependent on a number on a scale.”

— Geneen Roth

47. “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 are not living in reality. The truth is that you either throw the food out or you throw it in, but either way it turns to waste. World hunger will not be solved by finishing the garlic mashed potatoes on your plate.”

— Geneen Roth

48. “Awareness is learning to keep yourself company.”

— Geneen Roth

49. “Take yourself in. Ask the questions no one ever asked you. Keep going until you know the answer and you know who’s asking. Until you realize- it’s not far away- that the essence of you, like the sky, was always here. You just happened to get distracted by the local weather for a few decades.”

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50. “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 be sorry.”

— Geneen Roth