Martha Beck Quotes

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• Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which case we feel 107.
• Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.
• Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld.
• Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.
• Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is to the brain. If you're…
• If you'd rather live surrounded by pristine objects than by the traces of happy memories, stay focused on tangible things. Otherwise, stop fixating on stuff…
• To live a life that is wrong for you is a form of dying. There are people who have lives that look perfect. They try…
• Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals.
• As much horror as we have always created, we are a species that keeps moving forward, seeing new sights in new ways, and enjoying the…
• The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times.
• Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.
• Every day brings new choices.
• Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look.
• Whether you've seen angels floating around your bedroom or just found a ray of hope at a lonely moment, choosing to believe that something unseen…
• I really do think that any deep crisis is an opportunity to make your life extraordinary in some way.
• No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.
• When you meet people, show real appreciation, then genuine curiosity.
• Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury.
• Rest until you feel like playing, then play until you feel like resting, period. Never do anything else.
• Instead of fretting about getting everything done, why not simply accept that being alive means having things to do? Then drop into full engagement with…

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