Lost and Found Quotes

“I’d spent years saving for a future that was never coming to protect myself from a past that had already happened.”
― Geneen Roth, Lost and Found: One Woman's Story of Losing Her Money and Finding Her Life

“Most of us have become so accustomed to acting out our internal version of ourselves that we are no longer aware that just because we believe something doesn’t make it true. Just because we’ve been living according to particular beliefs for twenty or fifty years does not mean they have one shred of validity, as Richard, whose family had been investing in Madoff for decades, discovered on December 11, 2008. Our lives, our behaviors, our feelings—particularly about food and money—are like the Madoff charade; they’re built on distortions, and after a while the whole system becomes so entangled that it takes a dedicated commitment to understand and replace it with current-day reality.”
― Geneen Roth, Lost and Found: One Woman's Story of Losing Her Money and Finding Her Life

“It’s easy to want to change, but it’s hard to actually change. Very, really hard. You have to be willing to be uncomfortable, enter the unknown, do things your ego doesn’t want to do. You have to value being true to what you glimpse as possible—to the heart of your heart”
― Geneen Roth, Lost and Found: One Woman's Story of Losing Her Money and Finding Her Life