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You are not a mistake. You are not a problem to be solved. Treat yourself with outrageous kindness beginning today.

Geneen Roth

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And if you worry that not finishing the food on your plate is a slap in the face of all the hungry people everywhere, you are not living in reality. The truth is that you either throw the food out or you throw it in, but either way it turns to waste. World hunger will not be solved by finishing the garlic mashed potatoes on your plate.
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