"In one century, we've added 28 years to……" — Martha Beck
"In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly have evolved to accommodate it."
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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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