Martha Beck Quotes

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Martha Beck

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Birth : November 29, 1962

Ten years ago, I still feared loss enough to abandon myself in order to keep things stable. I'd smile when I was sad, pretend to like people who appalled me. What I now know is that losses aren't cataclysmic if they teach the heart and soul their natural cycle of breaking and healing.

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To know what that true self is without social pressure is to know your true nature.

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Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury.

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Since our society equates happiness with youth, we often assume that sorrow, quiet desperation, and hopelessness go hand in hand with getting older. They don't. Emotional pain or numbness are symptoms of living the wrong life, not a long life.

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It takes about four days of virtuous living to create a little weight loss. That also happens to be the time required to get used to eating less. In other words, if you can get past day three of a fitness regimen, things improve.

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Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.

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Whether you've seen angels floating around your bedroom or just found a ray of hope at a lonely moment, choosing to believe that something unseen is caring for you can be a life-shifting exercise.

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No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.

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I feel about aging the way William Saroyan said he felt about death: Everybody has to do it, but I always believed an exception would be made in my case.

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Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury. If everyday experience hasn't convinced you of this, there's research that will.

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Life is full of tough decisions, and nothing makes them easy. But the worst ones are really your personal koans, and tormenting ambivalence is just the sense of satori rising. Try, trust, try, and trust again, and eventually you'll feel your mind change its focus to a new level of understanding.

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The way we do anything is the way we do everything.

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Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals.

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Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.

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You have the freedom to live and let live, to love and let love. Granting yourself that freedom is one of the healthiest, most constructive things you can do for yourself and the people who matter to you.

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Rest until you feel like playing, then play until you feel like resting, period. Never do anything else.

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The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times.

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Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld.

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As much horror as we have always created, we are a species that keeps moving forward, seeing new sights in new ways, and enjoying the journey.

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The way we can allow ourselves to do what we need to, no matter what others may say or do, is to choose love and defy fear.

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