The moment we begin tolerating meanness, in ourselves and others, we are using our authorial power in the service of wrongdoing. We… — Martha Beck Capacity 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
“The end goal of all of this striving is to live joyfully, and that there are often more direct ways of achieving… — Martha Beck Achieve Copy Share Image
Our thoughts about an event can have a dramatic effect on how we go through the event itself. When our expectations are… — Martha Beck About Copy Share Image
There are things that can only happen through you when you are still. Silence is often the most important work you can… — Martha Beck Can do Copy Share Image
The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times. — Martha Beck Average 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
“It was the first time I had spoken to them directly. In doing so, I felt myself cross a fine but very… — Martha Beck Fear Copy Share Image
I explain to everyone I deal with-co-workers, children, friends-that I'm transitionally challenged and they should call me on my cell phone if… — Martha Beck Call me Copy Share Image
Whoever said that love is blind was dead wrong. Love is the only thing on this earth that lets us see each… — Martha Beck Accuracy Copy Share Image
There are several ways to mess up your life by fighting to make your calendar age match your felt age. I live… — Martha Beck Age 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 Daring 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 Fear Copy Share Image
Make a plan to change the world. For one night, don't disbelieve that you can. — Martha Beck Change the world Copy Share Image
Everything always passes, and everything is already okay. Stay in the place where you can see that, and nothing will resist you. — Martha Beck Okay Copy Share Image
Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone. — Martha Beck Appreciation 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 Agendas Copy Share Image
When you are in a creative or appreciative zone, you literally have no access to your inner lizard, to that fear-based, non… — Martha Beck Access Copy Share Image
Cheerfully fessing up to our failures turns crazy mind off, humility and compassion on. I learned this in a karate dojo that… — Martha Beck After Copy Share Image
Whatever terrible things may have happened to you, only one thing allows them to damage your core self, and that is continued… — Martha Beck Belief Copy Share Image
It's only by starting in a place of peace that we find our purpose and power. — Martha Beck Peace Copy Share Image
“What is it that people do? What do we live to do, the way a horse lives to run?” — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Realizing that we've surrendered our self-esteem to others and choosing to be accountable for our own self-worth would mean absorbing the terrifying… — Martha Beck Absorb Copy Share Image
