Whatever causes you to drop your plan forward and open to your vision, your own, deeply personal vision of what your life… — Martha Beck Best Copy Share Image
“This is their journey. I’ll have my time to go through xyz, but now is not my time. Everyone gets their time.” — Martha Beck Journey Copy Share Image
Imagine the choices you'd make if you had no fear-of falling, of losing, of being alone, of disapproval. — Martha Beck Choice 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 Disappointing Copy Share Image
What happens when we're willing to feel bad is that, sure enough, we often feel bad - but without the stress of… — Martha Beck Accepted Copy Share Image
I cannot count the times I've been defeated, humiliated, or physically injured immediately after saying the words, 'Hey, how hard can it… — Martha Beck After Copy Share Image
When your entire brain is active, that means you are taking everything in through all sense perception. Your entire memory bank and… — Martha Beck Active Copy Share Image
When making a decision, focus on what feels "shackles off" versus "shackles on". — Martha Beck Choices Copy Share Image
My deep belief is that all of us have the same lifelong work: to learn honesty, courage, and love. To learn, in… — Martha Beck And love Copy Share Image
Your life is not little, and your playing small doesn’t serve the world. Your living large, on the other hand-your being your… — Martha Beck Being your true self Copy Share Image
Humans only really learn from each other by storytelling. We didn't evolve to memorize things. We evolved to hear each other's stories… — Martha Beck Evolve Copy Share Image
Many of us have spent a lifetime trying to be what were not, feeling lousy about ourselves when we fail, and sometimes… — Martha Beck Differences Copy Share Image
Polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical appearance that prevent many of us from facing, discussing and solving our real… — Martha Beck Appearance 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 Acceptance Copy Share Image
External circumstances do not create feeling states. Feeling states create external circumstances. — Martha Beck Circumstances Copy Share Image
The idea is to identify a destructive thought pattern, then simply label it and watch it and let it pass by whenever… — Martha Beck Destructive Copy Share Image
Creating ways to be happy is your life's work, a challenge that won't end until you die. — Martha Beck Be happy Copy Share Image
Instead of fretting about getting everything done, why not simply accept that being alive means having things to do? Then drop into… — Martha Beck Accepting Copy Share Image
Stop trying to change your behavior; instead, rethink your beliefs — Martha Beck Behavior Copy Share Image
Don’t worry that you’ve wasted time. Each moment -- no matter how frozen or confused -- was a useful and necessary lesson. — Martha Beck Confused Copy Share Image
You get social pressure from your parents, who teach you to pay attention to certain things and not to others. You get… — Martha Beck Attention Copy Share Image
As much horror as we have always created, we are a species that keeps moving forward, seeing new sights in new ways,… — Martha Beck Horror Copy Share Image
As I obsess about my ancient problems, I feel more like I'm sinking in quicksand than lighting a torch. I'm creating neither… — Martha Beck About Copy Share Image
My anguish came from my hypothesis that other people's hypothetical hypotheses about me mattered. Ridiculous! — Martha Beck Anguish Copy Share Image
Life is full of tough decisions, and nothing makes them easy. But the worst ones are really your personal koans, and tormenting… — Martha Beck Ambivalence Copy Share Image
