Martha Beck Quotes About Understanding

Quotes about: Understanding

• Recurrent floods of sadness and anger gradually wash away the rubble of the defunct relationship, leaving only the bits of treasure: the remembered moments of real communion, a new understanding of your own mistakes, a clear picture of the dysfunctions you will never tolerate again.

  Martha Beck

  Real, Mistake, Sadness

• If you think there is no action that you can perform
  in your current circumstances that will increase the
  supply of love in the world, you are believing a lie.
  At the very least, you always have the option to offer
  yourself kindness and understanding. That alone
  can increase the supply of love in the world.

  Martha Beck

  Kindness, Lying, Believe

  Martha Beck (2008). “The Joy Diet: 10 Daily Practices for a Happier Life”, p.44, Harmony

• Life is full of tough decisions, and nothing makes them easy. But the worst ones are really your personal koans, and tormenting ambivalence is just the sense of satori rising. Try, trust, try, and trust again, and eventually you'll feel your mind change its focus to a new level of understanding.

  Martha Beck

  Focus, Decision, Understanding

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