No one can give you anything-love, shame, self-esteem- until you give it to yourself. Today, give yourself good things. — 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
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
A lot of my clients say they don't deserve to mope about their sad little memories while children are starving in India.… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
To know what that true self is without social pressure is to know your true nature. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Do whatever work feeds your true self, even if it’s not a safe bet, even if it’s like a crazy risk, even… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
By the end of your incredibly arduous, disappointing, stressful journey, you will be your true self, in a place where you belong,… — 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
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
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
