If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Creating ways to be happy is your life's work, a challenge that won't end until you die. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you. — Martha Beck Art Copy Share Image
Anyone who comes into your life, under any circumstances, has something to teach you. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Be brave enough to turn away from shiny objects, and toward the light that makes them shine. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
I want you to be supervised, all day every day, by people who forgive your errors and believe in your destiny. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Expectation loiters in the DNA of every sentient being; when you tell yourself or a loved one, 'Don't get your hopes up,'… — Martha Beck Ancient Copy Share Image
Use anything you can think of to understand and be understood, and you'll discover the creativity that connects you with others. — Martha Beck Creativity Copy Share Image
Welcoming imperfection is the way to accomplish what perfectionism promises but never delivers. It gives us our best performance and genuine acceptance… — Martha Beck Acceptance Copy Share Image
By the end of your incredibly arduous, disappointing, stressful journey, you will be your true self, in a place where you belong,… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Whatever causes you to drop your plan forward and open to your vision, your own, deeply personal vision of what your life… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury. If everyday experience… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Don’t worry that you’ve wasted time. Each moment -- no matter how frozen or confused -- was a useful and necessary lesson. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Your life is not little, and your playing small doesn’t serve the world. Your living large, on the other hand-your being your… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Just one mental shift-focusing on the abundance of your environment-switches your psychological settings so that your life automatically improves in many areas… — Martha Beck Abundance Copy Share Image
In the developed world, hundreds of millions of us now face the bizarre problem of surfeit. Yet our brains, instincts, and socialized… — Martha Beck Behavior Copy Share Image
Dawn Kotzer is the kind of coach who can see beauty and wisdom in circumstances that seem ugly and chaotic. She's kind,… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Getting bogged down in old stories stops the flow of learning by censoring our perceptions, making us functionally deaf and blind to… — Martha Beck Blind Copy Share Image
Learning to let go of expectations is a ticket to peace. It allows us to ride over every crisis—small or large, brother-in-law… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
For the vast majority of world history, human life - both culture and biology - was shaped by scarcity. Food, clothing, shelter,… — Martha Beck Biology Copy Share Image
“The only thing scarier than telling my secrets would be keeping them. When the “sensitive information” you carry is your own history,… — Martha Beck Secret Copy Share Image
Ten bajillion product ads notwithstanding, your looks are another thing that's basically genetic. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
External circumstances do not create feeling states. Feeling states create external circumstances. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Whenever you go somewhere that speaks to your soul, you are going home to yourself. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
People don’t cry when they lose their hope. They cry when they get it back. — Martha Beck Cry Copy Share Image
If you begin to face your fears, something bittersweet is going to happen to you: You'll grow up. — Martha Beck Bittersweet Copy Share Image
A true leader is not someone who feels fully informed but someone who continuously receives insight and guidance. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
To really boost your sense of self-efficacy, think of ways you could modify your usual tasks to suit your personal style. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
If you’re doing something you love with people you love in a place you love, you are going to create something of… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Painful events leave scars, true, but it turns out they're largely erasable. Jill Bolte Taylor, the neuroanatomist who had a stroke that… — Martha Beck Baggage Copy Share Image
In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Conflict in close relationships is not only inevitable, it's essential. Intimacy connects people who are inevitably different. — Martha Beck Close relationship Copy Share Image
Remember that it’s okay to ask for help when you’re stumped, because sometimes you really can’t be expected to handle everything alone. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
The only map of your right life is written on your soul at its most peaceful, and the only sure compass is… — Martha Beck Compass Copy Share Image
Heading towards that inner home will take you places-both inside yourself and in the external world-which your heart will recognize as its… — Martha Beck Environment Copy Share Image
Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which case we feel 107. — Martha Beck Coffee Copy Share Image
