Latest Geneen Roth Quotes from Interviews

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• Women look at their bodies, and they're never thin enough. The financial advisors that I've talked to say they ask their clients, "How much money do you need in order to feel secure?" "X amount." Then, as soon as the client got the amount, it would double automatically.

  Geneen Roth

  Order, Needs, Looks

  Interview with Suza Scalora, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.

• It's important to focus on the good in life and appreciate it.

  Geneen Roth

  Appreciate, Focus, Important

  Interview with Suza Scalora, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.

• There's a basic feeling of lack that we want to distract ourselves from. We want to fix it by looking outside ourselves, as if it is going to fill us up.

  Geneen Roth

  Feelings, Want, Ifs

  Interview with Suza Scalora, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.

• My closet was full, yet I was always focused on the sweater I didn't have, or on the next pair of boots. I wasn't allowing myself to take in what I had. I could never experience what "enough" was.

  Geneen Roth

  Sweaters, Boots, Next

  Interview with Suza Scalora, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.

• We're always looking for the Big Love, the Big High, the next Big Thing to happen. We miss what's in front of us.

  Geneen Roth

  Missing, Next, Bigs

  Interview with Suza Scalora, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.

• There have been many articles about the top regrets that people have when they're dying. They are always, "I missed the ordinary moments." We miss those ordinary moments, and yet, that's what we're trying to distract ourselves from at the same time.

  Geneen Roth

  Regret, People, Missing

  Interview with Suza Scalora, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.

• We always want to change the channel in our minds because we don't like what's going on. It's uncomfortable.

  Geneen Roth

  Mind, Want, Uncomfortable

  Interview with Suza Scalora, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.

• We start eating, watch television, surf the Internet, or go shopping and buy something. That gives us a rush of feeling, some adrenaline and excitement.

  Geneen Roth

  Shopping, Giving, Feelings

  Interview with Suza Scalora, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.

• I feel like it's been important for me to use my own personal experiences with food and money to help people to not feel ashamed. I felt so much shame about my own experiences.

  Geneen Roth

  People, Important, Use

  Interview with Suza Scalora, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• How you eat is how you live.

  Geneen Roth

  "Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything". Book by Geneen Roth, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 11, 2009.