Martha Beck Quotes - Page 5

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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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• 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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• Just one mental shift-focusing on the abundance of your environment-switches your psychological settings so that your life automatically improves in many areas you may think are unrelated. This is essentially a leap from fear to faith.

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  Thinking, May, Environment

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• I have discovered that many of the things I thought were priceless are as cheap as costume jewelry, and much of what I labeled worthless was, all the time, filled with the kind of beauty that directly nourishes my soul... Now I think that the vast majority of us "normal" people spend our lives trashing our treasures and treasuring our trash. We bustle around trying to create the impression that we are hip, imperturbable, omniscient, in perfect control, when in fact we are awkward and scared and bewildered.

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  Thinking, Perfect, People

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• My anguish came from my hypothesis that other people's hypothetical hypotheses about me mattered. Ridiculous!

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  People, Ridiculous, Opinion

  "10 Life Lessons You Should Unlearn" by Martha Beck, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 14, 2013.

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• Though we often see life troughs as the universe's conspiracy to ruin us, they're actually our own true nature inviting us to lay down our weary heads.

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  Ruins, Conspiracy, Weary

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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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• The part of you that is unhampered by illusion-the illusion of time, the illusion of powerlessness, the illusion of impossibility-i s waiting for you to slow down and open up so that it can speak to your consciousness. In some unguarded moment, you will hear its wildly improbable words and know that they are guiding you home.

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  Home, Waiting, Down And

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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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• I now believe that bêtes noires usually attack because we're thwarting our own destinies. Calming the beast turns us toward our best lives.

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  Believe, Destiny, Calming

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• True freedom starts with absolute honesty. The moment you call a problem by its real name, you’re already learning how to make it less harmful.

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  Honesty, Real, Names

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• You have the freedom to live and let live, to love and let love. Granting yourself that freedom is one of the healthiest, most constructive things you can do for yourself and the people who matter to you.

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  People, Matter, Live And Let Live

  "Love More, Care Less: ‘Detached Attachment’ and Other Boundary-Setting Ideas" by Martha Beck, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2012.

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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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• You are lovable. Can you show me any baby in any nursery who isn't priceless? No. There's no such thing as a worthless newborn. And the essential value that was born into brand-new-baby you can never be extinguished. This means that even if you think you're being absolutely honest, believing yourself to be anything other than astonishing, incomparable, and infinitely precious makes you a habitual liar.

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  Baby, Liars, Believe

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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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• Don't fight fearful thoughts. Just match each one with an alternative thought that brings you more peace.

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  Fighting, Alternatives, Fearful

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• Don't let your life revolve around whatever you're trying not to do or feel. Live to experience, not to avoid.

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  Trying, Feels

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• You get social pressure from your parents, who teach you to pay attention to certain things and not to others. You get it in school.

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  School, Parent, Social Pressure

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• This very moment of your life, if you experience it fully, will show you astonishing wonders and exquisite delights.

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  Delight, Wonder, Moments

  "Fighting FOMO: 3 Strategies To Beat Your Fear Of Missing Out" by Martha Beck, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 2, 2013.

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• Good fortune has side effects.

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  Luck, Sides, Fortune

  "10 Life Lessons You Should Unlearn" by Martha Beck, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 14, 2013.

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• Instead of hiding your loneliness, bring it into the light. Honor it. Treat it. Heal it. You'll find that it returns the favor.

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  Loneliness, Light, Honor

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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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  Thinking, Two, Issues

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• Stop fixating on stuff you can touch and start caring about stuff that touches you.

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  Caring, Tangible, Stuff

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

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• When making a decision, focus on what feels "shackles off" versus "shackles on".

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  Choices, Focus, Decision

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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.

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  Angel, Shifting, Metaphysical

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