Once we're willing to confront our emotional suffering, we begin making choices based on attraction instead of aversion, love instead of fear.… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
The thing I love most about my job is watching people age backward, becoming more lively and energetic as they free themselves… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Don’t hide love. If you feel it, express it-not to demand that others love you back, but simply to live outwardly the… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
As a life coach, I love makeovers, from new clothes to surgery, pedicures to highlights. But redoing makes you feel better only… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Whoever said that love is blind was dead wrong. Love is the only thing on this earth that lets us see each… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
The way we can allow ourselves to do what we need to, no matter what others may say or do, is to… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
To care for someone can mean to adore them, feed them, tend their wounds. But care can also signify sorrow, as in… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
If you think there is no action that you can perform in your current circumstances that will increase the supply of love… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Our ideas about love and attractiveness are so primal, our need for belonging so intense, that most of us are loath to… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
The really potent part of love is that it allows you to carry around beliefs about yourself that make you feel special,… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Constantly measuring ourselves against others sours and shortens our lives, robbing us of the very things we think it will bring: prosperity,… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Much protective self-criticism stems from growing up around people who wouldn't or couldn't love you, and it's likely they still can't or… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want. — 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
It seems to me at this moment that laughing is a serious thing, that it connects us with truth and love and… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
My deep belief is that all of us have the same lifelong work: to learn honesty, courage, and love. To learn, in… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
I suggest Substituting Inedible Nurturance, or SIN. Don't replace overeating with virtuous work or exercise; instead, make a list of things you… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
You have the freedom to live and let live, to love and let love. Granting yourself that freedom is one of the… — 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