Imagination is the doorway you walk through into every future moment. Are you walking through doorways to pain or to joy? — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Anything you're trying to will is focused on the future; it's always associated with some sort of anxiety that makes the present… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Don't expect the future to look like the past. Clear away expectations, and let yourself picture a wild, grand new world. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
The past doesn’t exist except as a memory, a mental story, and though past events aren’t changeable, your stories about them are.… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
The moment we begin tolerating meanness, in ourselves and others, we are using our authorial power in the service of wrongdoing. We… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
“It was the first time I had spoken to them directly. In doing so, I felt myself cross a fine but very… — 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
Recurrent floods of sadness and anger gradually wash away the rubble of the defunct relationship, leaving only the bits of treasure: the… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
The holy days are the best times to focus on real enthusiasm, the inner source that lightens and sanctifies our lives all… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
This very moment of your life, if you experience it fully, will show you astonishing wonders and exquisite delights. — 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
I had a client who was a professional baseball player once, and he would go to clubs and dance for seven, eight,… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
It takes about four days of virtuous living to create a little weight loss. That also happens to be the time required… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
At times in my life, I have been utterly lonely. At other times, I've had disgusting infectious diseases. Try admitting these things… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
You do not owe anyone your time. When you realize that, others will respect your time much more. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
I once read that forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a different past...but forgiving is not the same as… — Martha Beck 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 Copy Share Image
Not having time or energy for weight loss makes no sense. Does it take more time or energy to eat fish than… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
The part of you that is unhampered by illusion-the illusion of time, the illusion of powerlessness, the illusion of impossibility-i s waiting… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Any moment you spend attacking yourself is a moment away from your higher purpose and your power to love. Don't go there. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
I've developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
I practice staying calm all the time, beginning with situations that aren't tense. — 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
