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What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.

Martha Beck

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Martha Beck
Age: 61
Born: 1962
Born: November 29
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Journalist
Sociologist
Provo
Utah
Sex
Childhood
Heartless
Adolescence
Laughter

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Don't expect the future to look like the past. Clear away expectations, and let yourself picture a wild, grand new world.
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External circumstances do not create feeling states. Feeling states create external circumstances.
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If you'd rather live surrounded by pristine objects than by the traces of happy memories, stay focused on tangible things. Otherwise, stop fixating on stuff you can touch and start caring about stuff that touches you.
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Don’t hide love. If you feel it, express it-not to demand that others love you back, but simply to live outwardly the best of what you feel inwardly. The worst that can happen to your heart is not rejection by another person but failure to act on the love you feel.
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Judgments that constrain your giving are the very demons that are keeping you from receiving.
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When you're weary, find relief. When you're strong, find delight.
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If your life is cloudy and you're far, far off course, you may have to go on faith for a while, but eventually you'll learn that every time you trust your internal navigation system, you end up closer to your right life.
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Angels come in many shapes and sizes, and most of them are not invisible.
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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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We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster.
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I've developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day.
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To live a life that is wrong for you is a form of dying. There are people who have lives that look perfect. They try to be happy, they believe they should be happy, they are trying to like it, but if it's off course from their north star, they aren't satisfied.
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The more you claim your own destiny, the easier it will be to love unconditionally .
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Most people go through their whole lives, John went on, and never have one miracle happen to them. You've had dozens and dozens, and you still want more! It's like God gives you a brownie, I mean a really good brownie, but you can't be content with it. You want the whole pan of brownies. Nobody gets that.
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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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