Martha Beck quotes

Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals. (Martha Beck)
Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you. View quote
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Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone. View quote
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I don't believe that there are no spiritual beings around us. I don't know what to call them, I don't know how they work. But I know they're there. View quote
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What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence. View quote
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We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster. View quote
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Anything you're trying to will is focused on the future; it's always associated with some sort of anxiety that makes the present moment somewhat uncomfortable. View quote
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If you're religious, it gives you a perspective. View quote
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As much horror as we have always created, we are a species that keeps moving forward, seeing new sights in new ways, and enjoying the journey. View quote
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Adults under threat feel like children. View quote
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The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations and you become available to experience things as they are. (Martha Beck)
Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation. View quote
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When you meet people, show real appreciation, then genuine curiosity. View quote
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Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact. View quote
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Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise small children without the help of multiple adults, making for an unsupported life. View quote
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I have come to believe that there are infinite passageways out of the shadows, infinite vehicles to transport us into the light. View quote
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No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth. View quote
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The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times. View quote
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Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind. View quote
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Given the eclectic and constantly shifting nature of my metaphysical inclinations, I will probably never feel certain exactly what an angel is. View quote
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I really do think that any deep crisis is an opportunity to make your life extraordinary in some way. (Martha Beck)
If you want to end your isolation, you must be honest about what you want at a core level and decide to go after it. View quote
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I majored in Chinese. I was never really good at Chinese but I really, really benefited from having been exposed to Asian philosophy early in my life. View quote
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Whoever said that love is blind was dead wrong. Love is the only thing on this earth that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy. View quote
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Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look. View quote
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