Martha Beck Quotes - Page 6

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• You're exactly where you're meant to be, meandering along a crooked path.

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  Nature, Path, Infinite Possibilities

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Your relationship is not supposed to be perfect all the time, your business is not supposed to do well all the time, your soufflés are not supposed to raise perfectly all the time. Everything is designed to go wrong so that you can gain the skills of rediscovering your tracks, even in difficult or frightening circumstances. Especially in difficult and frightening circumstances.

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  Skills, Track, Perfect

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• When you're weary, find relief. When you're strong, find delight.

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  Strong, Relief, Delight

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• The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times.

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  Children, Average, Laughing

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• Rest until you feel like playing, then play until you feel like resting, period. Never do anything else.

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  Play, Periods, Feels

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• Do whatever work feeds your true self, even if it’s not a safe bet, even if it’s like a crazy risk, even if everyone in your life tells you you’re wrong or bad or crazy.

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  Crazy, Self, Risk

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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.

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  Moving, Journey, Sight

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

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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.

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  Anxiety, Trying, Moments

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• No one can give you anything-love, shame, self-esteem- until you give it to yourself. Today, give yourself good things.

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  Self Esteem, Giving, Today

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• Criticism is an alluring substitute for creation, because tearing
  things down, unlike building them up, really is as easy as falling off a stump. It's blissfully simple to strike a savvy, sophisticated pose by attacking someone else's creations, but the old adage is right: Any fool can burn down a barn. Building one is something else again.

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  Fall, Simple, Criticism

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• Conflict in close relationships is not only inevitable, it's essential. Intimacy connects people who are inevitably different.

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  People, Essentials, Different

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• Imagine the choices you'd make if you had no fear-of falling, of losing, of being alone, of disapproval.

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  Fall, Choices, Losing

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• There are things that can only happen through you when you are still. Silence is often the most important work you can do.

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  Silence, Important, Stills

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• Do whatever it takes to convey your essential self.

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  Self, Essentials, Whatever It Takes

  "Break out of your lonely season" by Martha Beck, www.cnn.com. April 23, 2008.

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• Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.

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  Lonely, People, Kind

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• You will never realize your best destiny through the avoidance of fear.
  Rather, you will realize it through the exercise of courage, which
  means taking whatever action is most liberating to the soul, even when
  you are afraid.

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  Mean, Exercise, Destiny

  Martha Beck (2009). “Steering by Starlight: The Science and Magic of Finding Your Destiny”, p.44, Rodale

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• I'm not saying we have power over everything in our lives - if that were true, my hair would look so, so different - but I am saying that there's no circumstance in which we are completely powerless.

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  Inspirational, Hair, Different

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