Whenever you go somewhere that speaks to your soul, you are going home to yourself. — Martha Beck Going Copy Share Image
External circumstances do not create feeling states. Feeling states create external circumstances. — Martha Beck Circumstances Copy Share Image
A true leader is not someone who feels fully informed but someone who continuously receives insight and guidance. — Martha Beck Feels Copy Share Image
If you begin to face your fears, something bittersweet is going to happen to you: You'll grow up. — Martha Beck Bittersweet Copy Share Image
People don’t cry when they lose their hope. They cry when they get it back. — Martha Beck Cry Copy Share Image
Ten bajillion product ads notwithstanding, your looks are another thing that's basically genetic. — Martha Beck Ads Copy Share Image
I want you to be supervised, all day every day, by people who forgive your errors and believe in your destiny. — Martha Beck Believe Copy Share Image
I majored in Chinese. I was never really good at Chinese but I really, really benefited from having been exposed to Asian… — Martha Beck Asian Copy Share Image
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
As a life coach, I love makeovers, from new clothes to surgery, pedicures to highlights. But redoing makes you feel better only… — Martha Beck Attitude Copy Share Image
I feel about aging the way William Saroyan said he felt about death: Everybody has to do it, but I always believed… — Martha Beck About Copy Share Image
Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the… — Martha Beck Beautiful Copy Share Image
Though we often see life troughs as the universe's conspiracy to ruin us, they're actually our own true nature inviting us to… — Martha Beck Conspiracy Copy Share Image
Instead of hiding your loneliness, bring it into the light. Honor it. Treat it. Heal it. You'll find that it returns the… — Martha Beck Favors Copy Share Image
I've never understood why some people hesitate before diving into unfamiliar tasks or activities. I couldn't imagine wanting more instructions about anything. — Martha Beck About Copy Share Image
Western democracies exalt the ideal of social equality, but our economic system arguably emerged from 16th-century Calvinism, a religion whose members believed… — Martha Beck Arguably 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
If you think there is no action that you can perform in your current circumstances that will increase the supply of love… — Martha Beck Action Copy Share Image
Sacred play is anything that takes you into that right hemisphere of your brain. It turns out that this move away from… — Martha Beck Accomplished 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 Ability 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 Accepting Copy Share Image
“Memory…is not the mechanical recording device people often think it is. Memory is anything but constant, anything but indubitable. It shifts and… — Martha Beck Memory Copy Share Image
Emotional discomfort, when accepted, rises, crests and falls in a series of waves. Each wave washes a part of us away and… — Martha Beck Accepted Copy Share Image
Be brave enough to turn away from shiny objects, and toward the light that makes them shine. — Martha Beck Be brave Copy Share Image
Anyone who comes into your life, under any circumstances, has something to teach you. — Martha Beck Circumstances Copy Share Image
In fact, when care appears, unconditional love often vanishes. — Martha Beck Appears Copy Share Image
If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can. — Martha Beck Abandoned Copy Share Image
If you're miserable, make a choice. If you're still miserable, you can choose again. — Martha Beck Choice Copy Share Image
No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth. — Martha Beck Difficult Copy Share Image
We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster. — Martha Beck Age Copy Share Image
Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young. — Martha Beck Children Copy Share Image
Bad habits fill needs, so find good alternatives for them. — Martha Beck Alternatives Copy Share Image
“What is it that people do? What do we live to do, the way a horse lives to run?” — Martha Beck Horse Copy Share Image
Don't let your life revolve around whatever you're trying not to do or feel. Live to experience, not to avoid. — Martha Beck Feels Copy Share Image
You do not owe anyone your time. When you realize that, others will respect your time much more. — Martha Beck Realizing Copy Share Image
Here is the crux of the matter, the distilled essence, the only thing you need to remember: When considering whether to say… — Martha Beck Considering Copy Share Image
Focusing on one mildly disturbing, semi-controllable issue allows the mind to stuff much greater terrors in relatively tidy packages. — Martha Beck Disturbing Copy Share Image
