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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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Martha Beck
Age: 61
Born: 1962
Born: November 29
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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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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.
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If you did nothing but pursue the truth about yourself for the rest of your life, you would never run out of fresh discoveries.
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What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.
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Feel about yourself what you would have others feel about themselves.
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I'd like to help repair the earth's ecosystems, and to fully live until I'm fully dead.
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Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which case we feel 107.
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Make a plan to change the world. For one night, don't disbelieve that you can.
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Tiny steps will get you to your goal months and months sooner. A little is better than a lot.
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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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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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People who get what they want tend to be the ones who make the effort to know what they want.
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Trust in your truth. It will be the best decision you ever make.
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The way out of fear isn’t safety. It’s freedom.
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Remember, intimacy increases with honesty. Share less to keep people away and more to draw them closer.
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I want you to be supervised, all day every day, by people who forgive your errors and believe in your destiny.
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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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