The Goddess Revolution Quotes

“When we chase a body. When we chase a goal weight. A dress size. A physique. It’s not the body itself we truly desire. It is the feeling.”
― Melissa Wells, The Goddess Revolution: Food and Body Freedom for Life

“Your body represents the Goddess and I want you to start thinking of your body as a separate, female entity that deserves your worship and respect.”
― Melissa Wells, The Goddess Revolution: Food and Body Freedom for Life

“You can’t give from an empty cup.”
― Melissa Wells, The Goddess Revolution: Food and Body Freedom for Life

“Not making yourself a priority always has an effect on your health. Once you fall into the bad habit of not making yourself a priority, your eating habits can decline, you stop working out and looking after yourself and even start drinking less water and more coffee.”
― Melissa Wells, The Goddess Revolution: Food and Body Freedom for Life

“Run towards anything or anyone who makes you feel like you are coming home to YOURSELF.”
― Melissa Wells, The Goddess Revolution: Food and Body Freedom for Life

“If you find yourself comparing your abilities, your work or your body to another woman, first observe and acknowledge what’s happening. Then calmly ask yourself, ‘What am I feeling, why has this been brought up and where has it come from?’ What in this other woman has triggered you? What parts of you are feeling vulnerable or threatened by her presence that you can make sense of? This is not about the woman. She is just being herself. It is about you. It’s highly likely that the parts that you feel triggered by, the parts that are making you compare yourself, are parts that you already have inside of you.”
― Melissa Wells, The Goddess Revolution: Food and Body Freedom for Life

“If there is one lesson you take from this entire book please let it be to pay attention to these feelings.”
― Melissa Wells, The Goddess Revolution: Food and Body Freedom for Life

“Life is short. Don’t miss out on 95 per cent of your life just to weigh 5 per cent less.”
― Melissa Wells, The Goddess Revolution: Food and Body Freedom for Life

“Having ‘no willpower’, actually means you’re connecting and listening to your body when it calls. It means that when your body wants to rebel against your rules you’re able to hear her loud and clear, and you want to listen to her. We are not supposed to be following rules and disconnecting emotionally from our body.”
― Melissa Wells, The Goddess Revolution: Food and Body Freedom for Life

“Isn’t it about time we started praising the women we have put in the spotlight rather than tearing them down and searching for flaws? Isn”
― Melissa Wells, The Goddess Revolution: Food and Body Freedom for Life

“A fish can’t see water because it’s in it. Sometimes you can’t see your thoughts and habits because you’re just so engulfed in them. Start”
― Melissa Wells, The Goddess Revolution: Food and Body Freedom for Life