Martha Beck Quotes

Many people think passion is a fuzzy feeling that makes taking action effortless. In fact, it's the gritty courage and tenacity to forge onward.

People don’t cry when they lose their hope. They cry when they get it back.

Creating ways to be happy is your life's work, a challenge that won't end until you die.

I want you to be supervised, all day every day, by people who forgive your errors and believe in your destiny.

If you want to end your isolation, you must be honest about what you want at a core level and decide to go after it.

Feel about yourself what you would have others feel about themselves.

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

The only way to the Place beyond Fear is to do the thing you fear most. This is how to surrender to your best destiny.

The moment we begin tolerating meanness, in ourselves and others, we are using our authorial power in the service of wrongdoing. We have both the capacity and the obligation to do better.

In fact, when care appears, unconditional love often vanishes.

I practice staying calm all the time, beginning with situations that aren't tense.

It's only by starting in a place of peace that we find our purpose and power.

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

To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.

We evolved to move and to learn with all our five senses!

You do not owe anyone your time. When you realize that, others will respect your time much more.

Every aspect of your life, whether it's a task or relationship, personal or professional, will be based on love and joy. And when you get right down to it, nothing else really matters.

I once read that forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a different past...but forgiving is not the same as obliterating memory.

The holy days are the best times to focus on real enthusiasm, the inner source that lightens and sanctifies our lives all year.

Ten bajillion product ads notwithstanding, your looks are another thing that's basically genetic.

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

Judgments that constrain your giving are the very demons that are keeping you from receiving.

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

It seems to me at this moment that laughing is a serious thing, that it connects us with truth and love and God.

Do whatever it takes to convey your essential self.

Constantly measuring ourselves against others sours and shortens our lives, robbing us of the very things we think it will bring: prosperity, love, inner peace, the knowledge that we’re good enough.

The heart is a tender but hardy organ. Daring to have a wonderful experience, even though you may get hurt, is the only way you'll realize its deepest desires.

Adults under threat feel like children.

If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you.

I am bewildering you a little. Just enough to help you forget what you came to believe, so that you can remember what you’ve always known.

As a life coach, I love makeovers, from new clothes to surgery, pedicures to highlights. But redoing makes you feel better only if approached with the right attitude.

I feel about aging the way William Saroyan said he felt about death: Everybody has to do it, but I always believed an exception would be made in my case.

The thing I love most about my job is watching people age backward, becoming more lively and energetic as they free themselves from situations that are toxic to their essential selves.

The way we can allow ourselves to do what we need to, no matter what others may say or do, is to choose love and defy fear.

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.