Emotional Quotes by Martha Beck

Imagine what you'd do if it absolutely didn't matter what people thought of you. Got it? Good. Never go back.

— Martha Beck

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

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

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

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

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

— Martha Beck

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

The power to bring me out of solitude - or to push me back into it - had never belonged to another person. It…

— Martha Beck

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

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

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

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

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

Angels come in many shapes and sizes, and most of them are not invisible.

— Martha Beck

Truth itself is something you live, not something you think.

— Martha Beck