Life Quotes by Martha Beck

Your life follows your attention. Wherever you look, you end up going.

— Martha Beck

Where your attention goes, your life goes.

— Martha Beck

Having fun is not a diversion from a successful life; it is the pathway to it.

— Martha Beck

You can't stay well without telling--and living--the truth.

— 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…

— Martha Beck

The only map of your right life is written on your soul at its most peaceful, and the only sure compass is…

— Martha Beck

This very moment of your life, if you experience it fully, will show you astonishing wonders and exquisite delights.

— Martha Beck

At times in my life, I have been utterly lonely. At other times, I've had disgusting infectious diseases. Try admitting these things…

— Martha Beck

I majored in Chinese. I was never really good at Chinese but I really, really benefited from having been exposed to Asian…

— Martha Beck

What would you do if you knew that every good thing in your life depended on your getting enough rest? Because it…

— Martha Beck

I really do think that any deep crisis is an opportunity to make your life extraordinary in some way.

— Martha Beck

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

“This is it, I thought. This is the part of us that makes our brief, improbable little lives worth living: the ability…

— Martha Beck

The important thing is to tell yourself a life story in which you, the hero, are primarily a problem solver rather than…

— Martha Beck

There are several ways to mess up your life by fighting to make your calendar age match your felt age. I live…

— Martha Beck

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

A joyful life isn’t about others; it’s about the brightness that is associated with being alive. Your path to it is through…

— Martha Beck

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

If you feel stuck in your present life, if you feel no enthusiasm for anything, if you think you have no purpose…

— Martha Beck

Since our society equates happiness with youth, we often assume that sorrow, quiet desperation, and hopelessness go hand in hand with getting…

— Martha Beck

The great power of separating the watching mind from the thinking mind is that the watching mind is innately loving. Some call…

— Martha Beck

The shortness of life, which we all discuss, but which is very clear to me at the moment, makes keeping and spreading…

— Martha Beck

Your body is free but your heart is in prison. To release your heart, you simply reverse the process which locked it…

— Martha Beck

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

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

If you did nothing but pursue the truth about yourself for the rest of your life, you would never run out of…

— Martha Beck

As a life coach, I love makeovers, from new clothes to surgery, pedicures to highlights. But redoing makes you feel better only…

— Martha Beck

Do something today that you think is too delicious, too selfish, too wacky to fit within the rules of your life.

— Martha Beck

Don't let your life revolve around whatever you're trying not to do or feel. Live to experience, not to avoid.

— Martha Beck

Anyone who comes into your life, under any circumstances, has something to teach you.

— Martha Beck

Creating ways to be happy is your life's work, a challenge that won't end until you die.

— Martha Beck

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and…

— Martha Beck

A confession you make merely to illuminate the murky corners of your little life may end up lighting the path to freedom…

— Martha Beck

Whatever causes you to drop your plan forward and open to your vision, your own, deeply personal vision of what your life…

— Martha Beck

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

“Finally, Karen Gerdes is the gentle force that put me back together after the events of my life tore me apart, and…

— Martha Beck

The pretty girls get all the good stuff. Oh, God. So not true. I unlearned this after years of coaching beautiful clients.…

— Martha Beck

Life is full of tough decisions, and nothing makes them easy. But the worst ones are really your personal koans, and tormenting…

— Martha Beck

If your life is cloudy and you're far, far off course, you may have to go on faith for a while, but…

— Martha Beck

“If you see failure as a monster stalking you, or one that has already ruined your life, take another look. That monster…

— Martha Beck