When you meet people, show real appreciation, then genuine curiosity. — Martha Beck Appreciation Copy Share Image
Don't fight fearful thoughts. Just match each one with an alternative thought that brings you more peace. — Martha Beck Alternatives Copy Share Image
“We all have our little sorrows...and the littler you are, the larger the sorrow.” — Martha Beck Grief Copy Share Image
Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone. — Martha Beck Appreciation Copy Share Image
Peace is more than just a feeling. It's the mental and physical frequency where you'll find all your real power. — Martha Beck Feeling Copy Share Image
I always felt that it was my job to try to help other people get it and deal with it. — Martha Beck Always Copy Share Image
You're exactly where you're meant to be, meandering along a crooked path. — Martha Beck Crooked Copy Share Image
Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how… — Martha Beck Arbitrary Copy Share Image
If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you. — Martha Beck Break 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 Enough Copy Share Image
No one can give you anything-love, shame, self-esteem- until you give it to yourself. Today, give yourself good things. — Martha Beck Esteem Copy Share Image
You will never realize your best destiny through the avoidance of fear. Rather, you will realize it through the exercise of courage,… — Martha Beck Action Copy Share Image
Denial exists because human infants, though equipped with trust-o-meters, are built to trust, blindly and absolutely, any older person who wanders past. — Martha Beck Built Copy Share Image
I now believe that bêtes noires usually attack because we're thwarting our own destinies. Calming the beast turns us toward our best… — Martha Beck Beast Copy Share Image
Perpetually doing, without ever tuning in to the center of our being, is the equivalent of fueling a mighty ship by tossing… — Martha Beck Equipment Copy Share Image
To care for someone can mean to adore them, feed them, tend their wounds. But care can also signify sorrow, as in… — Martha Beck Acceptance Copy Share Image
We are a time-starved people, obsessed with fitting huge achievements into our few years. In the process, we often fill our buckets… — Martha Beck Achievement Copy Share Image
Everything I've ever taught in terms of self-help boils down to this - I cannot believe people keep paying me to say… — Martha Beck Believe Copy Share Image
Once we're willing to confront our emotional suffering, we begin making choices based on attraction instead of aversion, love instead of fear.… — Martha Beck About Copy Share Image
To complete your daily mental hygiene, observe any part of you that is upset or anxious, and offer that part of yourself… — Martha Beck Actually Copy Share Image
Criticism is an alluring substitute for creation, because tearing things down, unlike building them up, really is as easy as falling off… — Martha Beck Adages Copy Share Image
“This is it, I thought. This is the part of us that makes our brief, improbable little lives worth living: the ability… — Martha Beck Human beings 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 Call Copy Share Image
To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing. — Martha Beck Activity Copy Share Image
As soon as you think you know someone else's truth better than they do, you are in deep water. — Martha Beck Better Copy Share Image
When you do the thing you fear, the thing loses its power to scare. — Martha Beck Fear Copy Share Image
To attract something that you want, become as joyful as you think that thing would make you. — Martha Beck Happiness Copy Share Image
I fell in love with Africa and began helping people fix things there. — Martha Beck Africa Copy Share Image
Angels come in many shapes and sizes, and most of them are not invisible. — Martha Beck Angel 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 Imagine Copy Share Image
To know what that true self is without social pressure is to know your true nature. — Martha Beck Nature Copy Share Image
Remember, intimacy increases with honesty. Share less to keep people away and more to draw them closer. — Martha Beck Draws Copy Share Image
Anger elicits anger, fear elicits fear, no matter how well meaning we may be. — Martha Beck Anger Copy Share Image
Tiny steps will get you to your goal months and months sooner. A little is better than a lot. — Martha Beck Better Copy Share Image
