Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
I explain to everyone I deal with-co-workers, children, friends-that I'm transitionally challenged and they should call me on my cell phone if… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
I’ll tell you what it’s time to do right now. It’s time to set your schedule in order so that you don’t… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
All mental hygiene is based on the core practice of doing nothing. Most of us are good at wasting time, staring at… — 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
Your first daily priority should be stillness, attention to what you really know and what you really feel. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
What should you do now? Find a new way. A better way. Your way. The unknown, uncharted path through this wild new… — 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
