Enzweiler Institute Quotes & Sayings

Our work is not to change what you do, but to witness what you do with enough awareness, enough curiosity, enough tenderness that the lies and old decisions upon which the compulsion is based become apparent and fall away. When you no longer believe that eating will save your life when you feel exhausted or overwhelmed or lonely, you will stop. 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. (p. 80-81) — Geneen Roth

Be as subjective as you want. It's a great little racket. I'm glad we found it actually. — Matt Labash

What I hope is I'll eventually be seen as an actual individual, not as some abstraction - an art dealer running a museum. — Jeffrey Deitch

Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and "patriotism" ... Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots. — Gordon Allport

Rahel knew that this had happened because she had been hoping that it wouldn't. She hadn't learned to control her Hopes yet. — Arundhati Roy

La Inca shook her head. She was looking at her favorite picture of his mother on her first day at private school, one of those typical serious DR shots. What always happens. Un maldito hombre. — Junot Diaz

If you get a diagnosis, get on a therapy, keep a good attitude and keep your sense of humor. — Teri Garr

I am never better pleased than when I know a book of mine can be bought for fifty cents or, better still, for twenty-five. No people can be educated or even cultivated until books are cheap enough for everybody to buy. — Pearl S. Buck

The Romantic movement among other things was concerned to bring back into permitted human experience occasions when the 'invisible but real world' was of paramount importance, when the non-visual or dark senses were operating as organs of knowledge. — Peter Redgrove

Each person possesses and inviolability founded on justice that even the welfare of society as a whole cannot override. For this reason, justice denies that the loss of freedom for some is made right by a greater good shared by others. It does not allow that the sacrifices imposed on a few are outweighed by the larger sum of advantages enjoyed by many. Therefore in a just society the liberties of equal citizenship are taken as settled; the rights secured by justice are not subject to political bargaining or to the calculus of social interests. The only thing that permits us to acquiesce in an erroneous theory is the lack of a better one; analogously, an injustice is tolerable only when it is necessary to avoid an even greater injustice. Being first virtues of human activities, truth and justice are uncompromising. — John Rawls

Even God has been defended with nonsense. — Walter Lippmann

We have long become overgrown with calluses; we no longer hear people being killed. ("X") — Yevgeny Zamyatin