Remember, intimacy increases with honesty. Share less to keep people away and more to draw them closer. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Anger elicits anger, fear elicits fear, no matter how well meaning we may be. — Martha Beck Anger Copy Share Image
Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
My anguish came from my hypothesis that other people's hypothetical hypotheses about me mattered. Ridiculous! — Martha Beck Anguish Copy Share Image
People who get what they want tend to be the ones who make the effort to know what they want. — Martha Beck Effort 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 Copy Share Image
You're exactly where you're meant to be, meandering along a crooked path. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Conflict in close relationships is not only inevitable, it's essential. Intimacy connects people who are inevitably different. — Martha Beck Close relationship 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
In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
If you’re doing something you love with people you love in a place you love, you are going to create something of… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Heading towards that inner home will take you places-both inside yourself and in the external world-which your heart will recognize as its… — Martha Beck Environment Copy Share Image
Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which case we feel 107. — Martha Beck Coffee Copy Share Image
The only map of your right life is written on your soul at its most peaceful, and the only sure compass is… — Martha Beck Compass Copy Share Image
Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest… — Martha Beck Blind 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 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
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
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 Copy Share Image
Most people think that once they've found their purpose and the power to practice it, they'll finally be at peace. Actually, though,… — Martha Beck 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
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
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
When making a decision, focus on what feels "shackles off" versus "shackles on". — Martha Beck Choices 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 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
No part of your experience is wasted. Everything you've experienced so far is part of what you were meant to learn. — Martha Beck Experience Copy Share Image
I fell in love with Africa and began helping people fix things there. — Martha Beck Africa Copy Share Image
To attract something that you want, become as joyful as you think that thing would make you. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
