I feel about aging the way William Saroyan said he felt about death: Everybody has to do it, but I always believed… — 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… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
The only way to the Place beyond Fear is to do the thing you fear most. This is how to surrender to… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
“Try seeing your world and yourself this way, eyes open to whatever is before you, mind free of dichotomies. Are you good… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
“The end goal of all of this striving is to live joyfully, and that there are often more direct ways of achieving… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Friends, there are many areas in which I need encouragement, but worrying is not one of them. I worry the way Renee… — 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
The heart is a tender but hardy organ. Daring to have a wonderful experience, even though you may get hurt, is the… — Martha Beck 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 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
This is the part of us that makes our brief, improbable little lives worth living: the ability to reach through our own… — 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
I am free, and always have been; free to accept my own reality, free to trust my perceptions, free to believe what… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
We can’t save ourselves from fear by seeking safety, because safety always means there’s something to be safe from-in other words, something… — 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
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 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
The way we can allow ourselves to do what we need to, no matter what others may say or do, is to… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
I really do think that any deep crisis is an opportunity to make your life extraordinary in some way. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Trying to motivate yourself with fear is like screaming at a child, “Do something, dammit!” You’ll either freeze up or act in… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
As any good Buddhist will tell you, the only way to find permanent joy is by embracing the fact that nothing is… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Welcoming imperfection is the way to accomplish what perfectionism promises but never delivers. It gives us our best performance and genuine acceptance… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
By the end of your incredibly arduous, disappointing, stressful journey, you will be your true self, in a place where you belong,… — 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
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
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
