Our ideas about love and attractiveness are so primal, our need for belonging so intense, that most of us are loath to abandon our favorite beliefs on these issues. If you've ever let yourself feel lovable and lovely, only to… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Imagine what you'd do if it absolutely didn't matter what people thought of you. Got it? Good. Never go back. — Martha Beck Copy Share
In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly have evolved… — Martha Beck Copy Share
If I tell a man he needs to quit his soul-sucking job, he has to go home and fight with his wife or fight… — Martha Beck Copy Share
I was learning to track rhinoceroses in Africa and tracked right up on an animal that really I thought was going to kill me. — Martha Beck Copy Share
There has never been, and never will be, anyone who sees, thinks, or responds exactly the way you do. Whether you’re revolutionizing physics or… — Martha Beck Copy Share
Most of my clients don't realize that the way they look and the way they think about their looks are two separate issues. — Martha Beck Copy Share
The power to bring me out of solitude - or to push me back into it - had never belonged to another person. It… — Martha Beck Copy Share
Learning to quit while you're not ahead, when the dull ooze of depression tells you things are not going to get any better, is… — Martha Beck Copy Share
The important thing is to tell yourself a life story in which you, the hero, are primarily a problem solver rather than a helpless… — Martha Beck Copy Share
A joyful life isn’t about others; it’s about the brightness that is associated with being alive. Your path to it is through anything that… — Martha Beck Copy Share
Fear is the raw material from which courage is manufactured. Without it, we wouldn't even know what it means to be brave. — Martha Beck Copy Share
Many people think passion is a fuzzy feeling that makes taking action effortless. In fact, it's the gritty courage and tenacity to forge onward. — Martha Beck Copy Share
