Do something today that you think is too delicious, too selfish, too wacky to fit within the rules of your life. — Martha Beck Delicious Copy Share Image
I practice staying calm all the time, beginning with situations that aren't tense. — Martha Beck Beginning Copy Share Image
The more you claim your own destiny, the easier it will be to love unconditionally . — Martha Beck Claims Copy Share Image
Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact. — Martha Beck Being alone Copy Share Image
Your life follows your attention. Wherever you look, you end up going. — Martha Beck Attention Copy Share Image
People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures. — Martha Beck Authority Copy Share Image
Feel about yourself what you would have others feel about themselves. — Martha Beck About yourself Copy Share Image
Question every thought that causes suffering and test it against your own sense of truth. — Martha Beck Causes Copy Share Image
Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury. If everyday experience… — Martha Beck Better Copy Share Image
No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can… — Martha Beck Arrows Copy Share Image
Expectation loiters in the DNA of every sentient being; when you tell yourself or a loved one, 'Don't get your hopes up,'… — Martha Beck Ancient Copy Share Image
When you are in a creative or appreciative zone, you literally have no access to your inner lizard, to that fear-based, non… — Martha Beck Access Copy Share Image
“Adam has angels like a dog has fleas. He came here with them, and the more time you spend around him, the… — Martha Beck Adam Copy Share Image
From a place of stillness, openness, forgiveness and acceptance you can renew your commitment to any eating plan you like. — Martha Beck Acceptance Copy Share Image
Use anything you can think of to understand and be understood, and you'll discover the creativity that connects you with others. — Martha Beck Creativity Copy Share Image
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 Arbitrary 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 About Copy Share Image
Many of us assume that we have to do things a certain way: ignore passion in favor of safer bets, act stoic… — Martha Beck Acquisition Copy Share Image
Since our society equates happiness with youth, we often assume that sorrow, quiet desperation, and hopelessness go hand in hand with getting… — Martha Beck Assume Copy Share Image
Your relationship is not supposed to be perfect all the time, your business is not supposed to do well all the time,… — Martha Beck Business 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 About 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 Arms 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 Demand Copy Share Image
If you feel stuck in your present life, if you feel no enthusiasm for anything, if you think you have no purpose… — Martha Beck Dungeons Copy Share Image
The effect of emotional venting is to sustain an unsatisfactory status quo. Most people think the opposite, that complaining is part of… — Martha Beck Circumstances 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 Awkward Copy Share Image
Silence comes in two varieties: One that nourishes and comforts; another that chokes, smothers, and isolates. Solitary confinement is the worst kind… — Martha Beck Abyss Copy Share Image
“Cruelty, whether physical or emotional, isn't normal. It may signal what psychologists call the dark triad of psychopathic, narcissistic and Machiavellian personality… — Martha Beck Difficult childhood Copy Share Image
Your body is free but your heart is in prison. To release your heart, you simply reverse the process which locked it… — Martha Beck Another way Copy Share Image
