Do something today that you think is too delicious, too selfish, too wacky to fit within the rules of your life. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone. — 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
Use anything you can think of to understand and be understood, and you'll discover the creativity that connects you with others. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Constantly measuring ourselves against others sours and shortens our lives, robbing us of the very things we think it will bring: prosperity,… — 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… — 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… — 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
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
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
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 feel stuck in your present life, if you feel no enthusiasm for anything, if you think you have no purpose… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
The great power of separating the watching mind from the thinking mind is that the watching mind is innately loving. Some call… — 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
If you think there is no action that you can perform in your current circumstances that will increase the supply of love… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
You are lovable. Can you show me any baby in any nursery who isn't priceless? No. There's no such thing as a… — 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
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
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 attract something that you want, become as joyful as you think that thing would make you. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
During the times we think we’re being “unproductive,” the seeds of new worlds are germinating within us, and they need peace to… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Forcing yourself to think happy lies doesn't heal your dreams. Getting to the truth does. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Just one mental shift-focusing on the abundance of your environment-switches your psychological settings so that your life automatically improves in many areas… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
The way to find your own North Star is not to think or feel your way forward but to dissolve the thoughts… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think… — 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
