"We eat the way we eat because we are afraid to feel what we feel."

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Source : FaceBook post by Geneen Roth from Mar 30, 2012

Geneen Roth

#Way Quotes #Feels Quotes

“Had I succeeded well, I had been reckoned amongst the wise; our minds are so disposed to judge from the event.”
“Our behavior is different. How often have you seen a headline like this?--TWO DIE ATTEMPTING RESCUE OF DROWNING CHILD. If a man gets lost in the mountains, hundreds will search and often two or three searchers are killed. But the next time somebody gets lost just as many volunteers turn out. Poor arithmetic, but very human. It runs through all our folklore, all human religions, all our literature--a racial conviction that when one human needs rescue, others should not count the price.”
“If an action must be taken that will benefit the majority at the cost of the minority, is it morally indefensible? If an action taken for the benefit of a majority occurs at the expense of a minority, is it moral action?”
“When we deconstruct how radical evil occurs we realize that it is anything but spontaneous combustion. You need pyromaniacs.”
“It is not easy to explain how I felt while I read, but I will try. No doubt you, as a reader, will understand. It appeared I found myself in a place where no one could bother me, where no one could reach me. I grew impervious to all the noises around me.”

Source : Tatiana de Rosnay (2012). “The House I Loved”, p.149, Macmillan
“I try to play characters who are different from myself, so I feel like this character is someone who is really different. I actually think that if I did what he did in this movie, I would get a restraining order put against me.”
“I've always prided myself on my discipline as a writer. I do it like a job. I get up in the morning and go to my desk.”
“Labor, therefore, is a duty from which no man living is exempt, without forfeiting his right to his daily bread.”

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