9 Quotes & Sayings By Joanne Greenberg

Joanne Greenberg is a former Wall Street executive and bestselling author. She is also a journalist, editor, and publisher who has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, and other outlets. She is the founder of a national non-profit foundation that promotes health and wellness. Her books include the best-selling Eat to Live: The Revolutionary Formula for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss.

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What good is your reality, when justice fails and dishonesty is glossed over and the ones who keep faith suffer. . What good is your reality then?"". . I never promised you a rose garden. I never promised you perfect justice. . and I never promised you peace or happiness. . The only reality I offer is challenge, and being well is being free to accept it or not at whatever level you are capable. I never promise lies, and the rose-garden world of perfection is a lie..and a bore, too!. Joanne Greenberg
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Sometimes the world is so much sicker than the inmates of its institutions. Joanne Greenberg
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The creative strength is good enough and deep enough to bring itself to flower and to grow in spite of this sickness. Joanne Greenberg
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The horror of the Pit lay in the emergence from it, with the return of her will, her caring, and her feeling of the need for meaning before the return of meaning itself. Joanne Greenberg
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I'm sorry I'm young, " Deborah answered with a bitterness that was half prose. "We have a right to be as crazy as anyone else." The second part was more a plea, and to her surprise the superbly inhuman fighter smiled softly and said, "Yes ... I suppose that's true, though I never thought of it in those terms before. Joanne Greenberg
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Yr had a region called the Fear-bog. Lactamaeon had taken her there once to see the monsters and corpses of her nightmares accumulating there from year after year of terrifying dreams. They had swum through the almost solid g Joanne Greenberg
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Do you know why you’re here?' the doctor said. Clumsiness. Clumsiness is the first and then we have a list: lazy, wayward, headstrong, fat, ugly, mean, tactless, and cruel. Also a liar. That category includes subheads: (a) False blindness, imaginary pains causing real doubling-up, untrue lapses of hearing, lying leg injuries, fake dizziness, and unproved and malicious malingering s; (b) Being a bad sport. Did I leave out unfriendliness?… Also unfriendliness. Joanne Greenberg
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The hidden strength is too deep a secret. But in the end...in the end it is our only ally. Joanne Greenberg