"Freedom from obsession is not about something you do; it's about knowing who you are. It's about recognizing what sustains you and what exhausts you. What you love and what you think you love because you believe you can't have it."

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Source : FaceBook post by Geneen Roth from Jul 08, 2014

Geneen Roth

#Inspiring Quotes #Believe Quotes #Journey Quotes

“The United States, per capita, at a certain period in its history, had the most junkies of any country ever in the world - right after the Civil War. The most brutal war, the greatest amount of casualties that America's ever had.”
“In ancient shadows and twilightsWhere childhood had strayed,The world's great sorrows were bornAnd its heroes were made.In the lost boyhood of JudasChrist was betrayed.”

Source : 'Germinal' (1931)
“I've been a road-rat since I got my driver's licence at 16, so I've probably gone across America 20 times.”
“I know I can't change the past, but I change the future. I can change, too. And I will.”
“I took up knitting from time to time as a relaxation, but I always put it down again before going out to buy a rocking chair.”
“There is no true joy and compassion except through the difficult emotions - all we get without the experience of fear, anger, and sadness are cheap imitations of joy and compassion - pleasantness and sentimentality.”
“I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.”

Source : Nathanael Emmons (1861). “The Works of Nathanael Emmons, D.D., Third Pastor of the Church in Franklin, Mass: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.340
“(A)nything not acting as a propaganda arm for the Democrats or the Leftist agenda is considered conservative these days.”

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