Since our society equates happiness with youth, we often assume that sorrow, quiet desperation, and hopelessness go hand in hand with getting… — Martha Beck Assume 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 Feelings Copy Share Image
Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you. — Martha Beck Art Copy Share Image
Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise small children… — Martha Beck Children Copy Share Image
“If you see failure as a monster stalking you, or one that has already ruined your life, take another look. That monster… — Martha Beck Benevolent Copy Share Image
Many of us assume that we have to do things a certain way: ignore passion in favor of safer bets, act stoic… — Martha Beck Acquisition Copy Share Image
Friends, there are many areas in which I need encouragement, but worrying is not one of them. I worry the way Renee… — Martha Beck Areas 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
Much protective self-criticism stems from growing up around people who wouldn't or couldn't love you, and it's likely they still can't or… — Martha Beck Accepted 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
“...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
Our culture has created two almost irreconcilable descriptions of a 'good woman.' The first is the individual achiever; the second, the self-sacrificing… — Martha Beck Achiever 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
Connecting with the people who are meant to be part of your own North Star is much more important than any aspect… — Martha Beck Aspect Copy Share Image
If you find yourself getting nervous stop and relax for three full breaths. Then take one small step, then another. That is… — Martha Beck Anxiety Copy Share Image
Your first daily priority should be stillness, attention to what you really know and what you really feel. — Martha Beck Attention Copy Share Image
I have come to believe that there are infinite passageways out of the shadows, infinite vehicles to transport us into the light. — Martha Beck Believe 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
Question every thought that causes suffering and test it against your own sense of truth. — Martha Beck Causes Copy Share Image
Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want. — Martha Beck Heartbreak 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
We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster. — Martha Beck Age Copy Share Image
