Happiness Quote by Martha Beck

“To attract something that you want, become as joyful as you think that thing would make you.”

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Imagine what you'd do if it absolutely didn't matter what people thought of you. Got it? Good. Never go back.

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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…

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I was learning to track rhinoceroses in Africa and tracked right up on an animal that really I thought was going to kill me.

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There has never been, and never will be, anyone who sees, thinks, or responds exactly the way you do. Whether you’re revolutionizing physics or…

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Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.

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Most of my clients don't realize that the way they look and the way they think about their looks are two separate issues.

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The power to bring me out of solitude - or to push me back into it - had never belonged to another person. It…

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The important thing is to tell yourself a life story in which you, the hero, are primarily a problem solver rather than a helpless…

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A joyful life isn’t about others; it’s about the brightness that is associated with being alive. Your path to it is through anything that…

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Fear is the raw material from which courage is manufactured. Without it, we wouldn't even know what it means to be brave.

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