Your body is free but your heart is in prison. To release your heart, you simply reverse the process which locked it… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
The heart is a tender but hardy organ. Daring to have a wonderful experience, even though you may get hurt, is the… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Whatever terrible things may have happened to you, only one thing allows them to damage your core self, and that is continued… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Sometimes a psychic tells you something and it feels wrong and others may be right on the money. It's your choice about… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the… — 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
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
A confession you make merely to illuminate the murky corners of your little life may end up lighting the path to freedom… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Anger elicits anger, fear elicits fear, no matter how well meaning we may be. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
To complete your daily mental hygiene, observe any part of you that is upset or anxious, and offer that part of yourself… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Self-pity, a dominant characteristic of sociopaths, is also the characteristic that differentiates heroic storytelling from psychological rumination. When you talk about your… — 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
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
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
I want you to notice is that-right here, right now-you’re okay. You may be in pain, you may be in fear, you… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Indecision may come from an instinctive hunch that there's more you need to know - which means it's time to learn everything… — 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