Martha Beck Quotes - Page 4

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• Remember that it’s okay to ask for help when you’re stumped, because sometimes you really can’t be expected to handle everything alone.

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  Helping, Remember, Sometimes

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• The difference between success and failure isn't the absence of fear but the determination to pursue your heart's desires no matter how scared you are.

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  Determination, Heart, Differences

  Martha Beck (2008). “Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live”, p.181, Harmony

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• Forcing yourself to think happy lies doesn't heal your dreams. Getting to the truth does.

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  Dream, Honesty, Integrity

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

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  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

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• Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.

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  Appreciation, Fear, Thinking

  "Reasons to feel good about the future" by Martha Beck, edition.cnn.com. January 9, 2008.

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• Play until it's time to rest, then rest until it's time to play.

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  Play

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• If you see failure as a monster stalking you, or one that has
  already ruined your life, take another look. That monster can
  become a benevolent teacher, opening your mind to successes
  you cannot now imagine.

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  Teacher, Mind, Monsters

  "How to fail your way to success" by Martha Beck, www.cnn.com. January 2, 2008.

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• Any moment you spend attacking yourself is a moment away from your higher purpose and your power to love. Don't go there.

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  Purpose, Moments, Attacking

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• I really do think that any deep crisis is an opportunity to make your life extraordinary in some way.

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  Attitude, Optimistic, Opportunity

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• If anything is worth doing, it is worth doing it badly.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Humor

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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.

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  Looks, Arbitrary, Body

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• Many of us assume that we have to do things a certain way: ignore passion in favor of safer bets, act stoic amid inner turmoil, run on an upward trajectory of success and money acquisition at any emotional cost. But these are not rules.

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  Running, Monday, Passion

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• Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation.

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  Children, Grief, Anger

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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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  Children, Powerful, Caring

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• The process of spotting fear and refusing to obey it is the source of all true empowerment.

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  Empowerment, Source, Process

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• Whenever you go somewhere that speaks to your soul, you are going home to yourself.

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  Home, Soul, Speak

  "Seven steps to living the life you want" by Martha Beck, www.cnn.com. January 3, 2013.

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• Slow is fast, gentle is powerful and stillness moves mountains

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  Powerful, Moving, Mountain

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• Don’t worry that you’ve wasted time. Each moment -- no matter how frozen or confused -- was a useful and necessary lesson.

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  Confused, Worry, Lessons

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• Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you.

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  Art, Moving, Form

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• 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.

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  Kindness, Lying, Believe

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

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• The knowledge of your destiny is available to you, well before
  it actually happens, as a message streaming continuously from
  your heart to your brain, written in the language of longing.

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  Heart, Destiny, Brain

  Martha Beck (2008). “The Joy Diet: 10 Daily Practices for a Happier Life”, p.47, Harmony

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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 replaces thinking with pure flight, pure joy.

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  Thinking, Joy, Alive

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• If we're stuck with having expectations, there's a very good reason to embrace positive ones: it's that we often create what we anticipate.

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  Expectations, Reason, Embrace

  "'Tis the season to be jolly. Honest!" by Martha Beck, www.cnn.com. December 7, 2007.

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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.

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  Children, Home, People

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• Use anything you can think of to understand and be understood, and you'll discover the creativity that connects you with others.

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  Creativity, Thinking, Use

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