If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can. — Martha Beck 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
“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
You do not owe anyone your time. When you realize that, others will respect your time much more. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Forcing yourself to think happy lies doesn't heal your dreams. Getting to the truth does. — Martha Beck 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 Copy Share Image
The important thing is to tell yourself a life story in which you, the hero, are primarily a problem solver rather than… — Martha Beck Fate Copy Share Image
Any moment you spend attacking yourself is a moment away from your higher purpose and your power to love. Don't go there. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
The thing I love most about my job is watching people age backward, becoming more lively and energetic as they free themselves… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Every aspect of your life, whether it's a task or relationship, personal or professional, will be based on love and joy. And… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
A joyful life isn’t about others; it’s about the brightness that is associated with being alive. Your path to it is through… — Martha Beck Alive 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
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 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
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
Our thoughts about an event can have a dramatic effect on how we go through the event itself. When our expectations are… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
What happens when we're willing to feel bad is that, sure enough, we often feel bad - but without the stress of… — Martha Beck 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 Copy Share Image
One reason most people never stop thinking is that mental frenzy keeps us from having to see the upsetting aspects of our… — Martha Beck 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
Your relationship is not supposed to be perfect all the time, your business is not supposed to do well all the time,… — Martha Beck Business 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 Copy Share Image
The repercussions of one person living in stubborn gladness are incalculable. — Martha Beck Gladness Copy Share Image
Ten bajillion product ads notwithstanding, your looks are another thing that's basically genetic. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
A true leader is not someone who feels fully informed but someone who continuously receives insight and guidance. — Martha Beck 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
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
Whenever you go somewhere that speaks to your soul, you are going home to yourself. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
External circumstances do not create feeling states. Feeling states create external circumstances. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Be brave enough to turn away from shiny objects, and toward the light that makes them shine. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Anyone who comes into your life, under any circumstances, has something to teach you. — Martha Beck 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
Creating ways to be happy is your life's work, a challenge that won't end until you die. — Martha Beck 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 Copy Share Image
Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals. — Martha Beck Caring 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
Trust in your truth. It will be the best decision you ever make. — Martha Beck Being the best Copy Share Image
