J.D. Roth Quotes

Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up

In many shamanic societies, people who complain of being disheartened... or depressed would be asked,... When did you stop dancing? ... This is because dancing is a universal healing salve.

Ride the energy of your own unique spirit.

I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

We're constantly changing and any practice meant to serve our authenticity should reflect our fluid nature.

Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ride. But if you can do that -- well, lucky you.

The body is the womb of the soul, a begging bowl for spirit.

We dance to fall in love with the spirit in all things, to wipe out memory or transform it into moves that nobody else can make because they didn’t live it.

Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.

It’s amazing what lies people can sustain behind the mask of their real faces.

There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved for the sake of something greater.

It’s a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even smells the same. You realize what’s changed, is you.

Awareness is learning to keep yourself company. And then learn to be more compassionate company, as if you were somebody you are fond of and wish to encourage.

I don't get all the women that I want... I get all the women that want me.

It's not who wants to sleep with you; It's who wants to sleep with you again.

If you think your job is to fix what is broken, you keep finding more broken places to mend.

Pride is what killed Al, and it is the flaw in every Dauntless heart. It is in mine.

I only came for Cake" -Tobias Eaton, Divergent

The purpose of a spiritual path or religion is to provide a precise and believable way into what seems unbelievable.

If you just set people in motion, they'll heal themselves.

Rock & roll is not so much a question of electric guitars as it is striped pants.

Who cares about pretty? I'm going for noticeable.

We all share the wound of fragmentation. And we can all share in the cure of unification. Healing is the unification of all our forces -- the powers of being, feeling, knowing and seeing.

Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.

You will stop turning to food when you start understanding in your body, not just your mind, that there is something better...Truth, not force, does the work of ending compulsive eating.

Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?

Meditation is a tool to shake yourself awake. A way to discover what you love. A practice to return yourself to your body when the mind medleys threaten to usurp your sanity.

My name is Four,” I say. “Call me ‘Stiff’ again and you and I will have a problem.

Arrogance is one of the flaws in the Erudite heart -- I know. It is often in mine.

If you try to lose weight by shaming, depriving and fearing yourself, you will end up shamed, deprived, and afraid. Kindness comes first. Always.

Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with a needle.

It doesn't matter the kind of music, it doesn't matter whether it's a cowboy hat or a yarmulke. I don't care if it's outer space or pop, the spirit is the same.

Movement practice gets all your creative juices flowing. It doesn't just release your body, but it opens up your heart and empties out your mind, as well.

Literature takes a habit of mind that has disappeared. It requires silence, some form of isolation, and sustained concentration in the presence of an enigmatic thing.

Shh,” I say. “Arms around me.” Obediently, he slips both arms around my waist. I smile at the wall. I am not enjoying this. I am not, not even a little bit, no.

Maybe it's a little depressing to think that my vision of a perfect world is actually so messed up, but I think it means that I don't really understand what 'perfect' is.

I've always dreamed of having a year-round haunted house.

I'm a family man. I personally started 3 or 4 families last year.

Nothing bad can happen to a writer. Everything is material.

When we give ourselves over completely to the spirit of the dance, it becomes a prayer

When I was a child... I was watching a snowstorm, and hopefully asked, 'Momma, do we believe in winter?'

People come and go, pain comes and goes. But so does joy. And if our hearts are closed because we don't want to suffer, they won't be open enough to recognize the joy as it flies by.

I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them. I am terrified and I don't even know of what, because I have lost everything already.

You know, I'm from Boston, and in Boston, you are born with a baseball bat in your hand.

Give me a glazed doughnut, and a bottle of anything... to go!

Unless one is inordinately fond of subordination, one is always at war.

The light you see at the end of the tunnel is the front of an oncoming train.

We come to the nations pretending to escape persecution, we the most deadly persecutors in all the wretched annals of man.

Everyone is an abused child, if you think about what governments do.

I always wanted to be an outrage to public decency and a threat to women. And this is one of the few occupations where you're not only allowed that, but you're encouraged.