Martha Beck Quotes

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• Emotional discomfort, when accepted, rises, crests and falls in a series of waves. Each wave washes a part of us away and deposits treasures we never imagined. Out goes naivete, in comes wisdom; out goes anger, in comes discernment; out goes despair, in comes kindness. No one would call it easy, but the rhythm of emotional pain that we learn to tolerate is natural, constructive and expansive... The pain leaves you healthier than it found you.

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  Inspirational, Pain, Kindness

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• If a problem looks difficult, relax. If it looks impossible, relax even more. Then begin encouraging small changes, putting just enough pressure on yourself to move one turtle step forward. Then rest, savor, celebrate. Then step again. You’ll find that slow is fast, gentle is powerful, and stillness moves mountains.

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  Powerful, Moving, Small Changes

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• When you do the thing you fear, the thing loses its power to scare.

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  Scare, Loses

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• Your life follows your attention. Wherever you look, you end up going.

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  Looks, Attention, Ends

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• The way we do anything is the way we do everything.

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  Way

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• Instead of fretting about getting everything done, why not simply accept that being alive means having things to do? Then drop into full engagement with whatever you're doing, and let the worry go.

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  Mean, Worry, Why Not

  "Stop Worrying! Anxiety-Busting Advice from Martha Beck" by Martha Beck, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 27, 2012.

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• No part of your experience is wasted. Everything you've experienced so far is part of what you were meant to learn.

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• Having fun is not a diversion from a successful life; it is the pathway to it.

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  Fun, Successful, Pathways

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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. Otherwise, stop fixating on stuff you can touch and start caring about stuff that touches you.

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  Memories, Caring, Touching

  "Stop Worrying! Anxiety-Busting Advice from Martha Beck" by Martha Beck, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 27, 2012.

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• It isn’t necessary to know exactly how your ideal life will look; you only have to know what feels better and what feels worse…Begin making choices based on what makes you feel freer and happier, rather than on how you think an ideal life should look. It’s the process of feeling our way toward happiness, not the realization of the Platonic ideal, that creates our best lives.

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  Feel Better, Thinking, Choices

  "How to escape your rat race" by Martha Beck, www.cnn.com. January 19, 2009.

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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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  People, Matter, Imagine

  "10 life lessons you should unlearn" by Martha Beck, www.cnn.com. May 5, 2010.

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• If you feel stuck in your present life, if you feel no enthusiasm for anything, if you think you have no purpose or that you lost that purpose somewhere along the way, I guarantee you are living in a dungeon made of stories. And that none of those limiting stories are true.

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  Thinking, Purpose, Guarantees

  Martha Beck (2009). “Steering by Starlight: Find Your Right Life, No Matter What!”, p.53, Rodale

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• Don't expect the future to look like the past. Clear away expectations, and let yourself picture a wild, grand new world.

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  Inspirational, Past, Expectations

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• If you’re doing something you love with people you love in a place you love, you are going to create something of value to the world.

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  Love You, People, World

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• Your individuality is the most valuable thing you have.

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  Individuality, Valuable, Valuable Things

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• The way out of fear isn’t safety. It’s freedom.

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  Safety, Way

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• Trust in your truth. It will be the best decision you ever make.

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  Decision, Being The Best

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• To live a life that is wrong for you is a form of dying. There are people who have lives that look perfect. They try to be happy, they believe they should be happy, they are trying to like it, but if it's off course from their north star, they aren't satisfied.

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  Stars, Believe, People

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• Pain is like a life coach in your body. It’s what made me a life coach because I started paying a lot of attention to what made me hurt and what didn’t. It turned out my body was trying to steer me away from a life that was absolutely wrong for me and into a life that was absolutely wonderful.

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  Hurt, Pain, Trying

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• We can’t save ourselves from fear by seeking safety, because safety always means there’s something to be safe from-in other words, something to fear. The way out of fear isn’t safety. It’s freedom.

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  Mean, Safety, Way

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• When we run from our feelings, they follow us. Everywhere.

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  Running, Feelings

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• Peace is more than just a feeling. It's the mental and physical frequency where you'll find all your real power.

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  Real, Feelings, Real Power

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• What would you do if you knew that every good thing in your life depended on your getting enough rest? Because it does.

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  Doe, Enough, Good Things

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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 case we feel 107.

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  Coffee, Elderly, Middle

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• The way that other people judge me is none of my business.

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  People, Judging, Way

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