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
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
Tiny steps will get you to your goal months and months sooner. A little is better than a lot. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
If a problem looks difficult, relax. If it looks impossible, relax even more. Then begin encouraging small changes, putting just enough pressure… — Martha Beck 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 Copy Share Image
If you find yourself getting nervous stop and relax for three full breaths. Then take one small step, then another. That is… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
In the moments I get it right, every step I take seems to be matched by a universal mystery, which obligingly, incredibly,… — 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
