"In the developed world, hundreds of millions of……" — Martha Beck
"In the developed world, hundreds of millions of us now face the bizarre problem of surfeit. Yet our brains, instincts, and socialized behavior are still geared to an environment of lack. The result? Overwhelm - on an unprecedented scale."
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Martha Beck
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102 Quotes by Martha Beck
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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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