This is the part of us that makes our brief, improbable little lives worth living: the ability to reach through our own… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Since our society equates happiness with youth, we often assume that sorrow, quiet desperation, and hopelessness go hand in hand with getting… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise small children… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
“If you see failure as a monster stalking you, or one that has already ruined your life, take another look. That monster… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Though we often see life troughs as the universe's conspiracy to ruin us, they're actually our own true nature inviting us to… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Anyone who comes into your life, under any circumstances, has something to teach you. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Every aspect of your life, whether it's a task or relationship, personal or professional, will be based on love and joy. And… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Having fun is not a diversion from a successful life; it is the pathway to it. — 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 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
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
Creating ways to be happy is your life's work, a challenge that won't end until you die. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Life is full of tough decisions, and nothing makes them easy. But the worst ones are really your personal koans, and tormenting… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
To follow your life's guidance, you may have to reassign some seemingly important things to 'unimportant.' If you believe that pleasing your… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
I really do think that any deep crisis is an opportunity to make your life extraordinary in some way. — 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 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 Copy Share Image
What would you do if you knew that every good thing in your life depended on your getting enough rest? Because it… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
“Finally, Karen Gerdes is the gentle force that put me back together after the events of my life tore me apart, and… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Whether you've seen angels floating around your bedroom or just found a ray of hope at a lonely moment, choosing to believe… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
If you did nothing but pursue the truth about yourself for the rest of your life, you would never run out of… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Pain is like a life coach in your body. It’s what made me a life coach because I started paying a lot… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
The shortness of life, which we all discuss, but which is very clear to me at the moment, makes keeping and spreading… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
