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
Many people think passion is a fuzzy feeling that makes taking action effortless. In fact, it's the gritty courage and tenacity to… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Most people think that once they've found their purpose and the power to practice it, they'll finally be at peace. Actually, though,… — 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
All religious leaders and spiritual teachers emphasize finding a place within us that is true. People who obsessively follow these leaders instead… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
The most common reason we stumble into the delusion of powerlessness is that we're afraid of what other people would do or… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Conflict in close relationships is not only inevitable, it's essential. Intimacy connects people who are inevitably different. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
One reason most people never stop thinking is that mental frenzy keeps us from having to see the upsetting aspects of our… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
I always felt that it was my job to try to help other people get it and deal with it. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Our thoughts about an event can have a dramatic effect on how we go through the event itself. When our expectations are… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
There are several ways to mess up your life by fighting to make your calendar age match your felt age. I live… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Most people go through their whole lives," John went on, "and never have one miracle happen to them. You've had dozens and… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
To live a life that is wrong for you is a form of dying. There are people who have lives that look… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
People don’t cry when they lose their hope. They cry when they get it back. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Most unhappy people need to learn just one lesson: how to see themselves through the lens of genuine compassion, and treat themselves… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
If you’re doing something you love with people you love in a place you love, you are going to create something of… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
I have discovered that many of the things I thought were priceless are as cheap as costume jewelry, and much of what… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
I've never understood why some people hesitate before diving into unfamiliar tasks or activities. I couldn't imagine wanting more instructions about anything. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
We are a time-starved people, obsessed with fitting huge achievements into our few years. In the process, we often fill our buckets… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Remember, intimacy increases with honesty. Share less to keep people away and more to draw them closer. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
I want you to be supervised, all day every day, by people who forgive your errors and believe in your destiny. — 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
