"Any transition serious enough to alter your definition……" — Martha Beck
"Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis."
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102 Quotes by Martha Beck
Martha Beck has 102 quotes on this site.
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Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which…
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Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.
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Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind…
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Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.
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Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is…
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If you'd rather live surrounded by pristine objects than by the traces of happy memories, stay focused on tangible things.…
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To live a life that is wrong for you is a form of dying. There are people who have lives…
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Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals.
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As much horror as we have always created, we are a species that keeps moving forward, seeing new sights in…
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The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times.
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Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.
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Every day brings new choices.
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More Adjustments Quotes
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The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of.
— J. J. Abrams
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I have a plan of action, but the game is a game of adjustments.
— Mike Krzyzewski
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The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments…
— Clarence Day
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I don't think there's any kind of preparation for sudden celebrity. I think you almost have this slight nervous breakdown…
— Scarlett Johansson
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Taste as you go. When you taste the food throughout the cooking process you can make adjustments as you go.
— Anne Burrell
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If we can make some kind of adjustments, maybe in the game, to make it interesting and slow down the…
— Jana Novotna
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Don't become weary in doing good. If we are patient, we can experience the change of heart we seek. For…
— Kathleen H. Hughes
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How one walks through the world, the endless small adjustments of balance, is affected by the shifting weights of beautiful…
— Elaine Scarry
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This year, I'm most thankful for the people around me who've supported me-my friends, and my family and boyfriend. It's…
— Lucy Fry
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It's hard to train that in practice time. You can make calls, you can make adjustments, but just that pressure,…
— Bret Bielema
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A government must govern, must prescribe and enforce laws within its sphere or cease to be a government. Moreover, the…
— Calvin Coolidge
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While it is clear that we need to make some adjustments to protect Social Security for the long term, it…
— Carl Levin
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