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
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
“...Refusing to feel desire is the only thing more painful than failing to get what you want, and that learning not to… — Martha Beck Desire Copy Share Image
Anything you're trying to will is focused on the future; it's always associated with some sort of anxiety that makes the present… — Martha Beck Anxiety 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
I was learning to track rhinoceroses in Africa and tracked right up on an animal that really I thought was going to… — Martha Beck Africa Copy Share Image
The way we can allow ourselves to do what we need to, no matter what others may say or do, is to… — Martha Beck Allow Copy Share Image
Our ideas about love and attractiveness are so primal, our need for belonging so intense, that most of us are loath to… — Martha Beck Abandon Copy Share Image
The part of you that is unhampered by illusion-the illusion of time, the illusion of powerlessness, the illusion of impossibility-i s waiting… — Martha Beck Consciousness Copy Share Image
Something in the human psyche confuses beauty with the right to be loved. The briefest glance at human folly reveals that good… — Martha Beck Ad 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
Recurrent floods of sadness and anger gradually wash away the rubble of the defunct relationship, leaving only the bits of treasure: the… — Martha Beck Anger 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
All mental hygiene is based on the core practice of doing nothing. Most of us are good at wasting time, staring at… — Martha Beck Active Copy Share Image
Self-pity, a dominant characteristic of sociopaths, is also the characteristic that differentiates heroic storytelling from psychological rumination. When you talk about your… — Martha Beck About Copy Share Image
I really do think that any deep crisis is an opportunity to make your life extraordinary in some way. — Martha Beck Crisis Copy Share Image
Stop fixating on stuff you can touch and start caring about stuff that touches you. — Martha Beck Caring Copy Share Image
Stop trying to change your behavior; instead, rethink your beliefs — Martha Beck Behavior Copy Share Image
“There's more God in one hurt child than in all the religions humans ever created.” — Martha Beck Religion Copy Share Image
Rest until you feel like playing, then play until you feel like resting, period. Never do anything else. — Martha Beck Anything Copy Share Image
External circumstances do not create feeling states. Feeling states create external circumstances. — Martha Beck Circumstances 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
I'm not saying we have power over everything in our lives - if that were true, my hair would look so, so… — Martha Beck Am Copy Share Image
What would you do if you knew that every good thing in your life depended on your getting enough rest? Because it… — Martha Beck Doe Copy Share Image
If we're stuck with having expectations, there's a very good reason to embrace positive ones: It's that we often create what we… — Martha Beck Anticipate Copy Share Image
The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations… — Martha Beck Asia Copy Share Image
If you did nothing but pursue the truth about yourself for the rest of your life, you would never run out of… — Martha Beck About yourself 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
I suggest Substituting Inedible Nurturance, or SIN. Don't replace overeating with virtuous work or exercise; instead, make a list of things you… — Martha Beck Exercise 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
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
The shortness of life, which we all discuss, but which is very clear to me at the moment, makes keeping and spreading… — Martha Beck Astonishment Copy Share Image
Pain is like a life coach in your body. It’s what made me a life coach because I started paying a lot… — Martha Beck Attention Copy Share Image
Ten years ago, I still feared loss enough to abandon myself in order to keep things stable. I'd smile when I was… — Martha Beck Abandon Copy Share Image
Painful events leave scars, true, but it turns out they're largely erasable. Jill Bolte Taylor, the neuroanatomist who had a stroke that… — Martha Beck Baggage Copy Share Image
To follow your life's guidance, you may have to reassign some seemingly important things to 'unimportant.' If you believe that pleasing your… — Martha Beck Battle Copy Share Image
For the vast majority of world history, human life - both culture and biology - was shaped by scarcity. Food, clothing, shelter,… — Martha Beck Biology Copy Share Image
“I also thought about that seminar classmate on Adam's ninth birthday. Adam had insisted on going to a pizza-and-games arcade for his… — Martha Beck Adam Copy Share Image
