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What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.

Martha Beck

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Martha Beck
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: November 29
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Journalist
Sociologist
Provo
Utah
Adolescence
Laughter
Sex
Childhood
Heartless

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The really potent part of love is that it allows you to carry around beliefs about yourself that make you feel special, desirable, precious, innately good. Your lover couldn't have seen [these qualities] in you, even temporarily, if they weren't part of your essential being.
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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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If you feel stuck in your present life, if you feel no enthusiasm for anything, if you think you have no purpose or that you lost that purpose somewhere along the way, I guarantee you are living in a dungeon made of stories. And that none of those limiting stories are true.
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Judgments that constrain your giving are the very demons that are keeping you from receiving.
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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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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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Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you.
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Don’t worry that you’ve wasted time. Each moment -- no matter how frozen or confused -- was a useful and necessary lesson.
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If you think there is no action that you can perform in your current circumstances that will increase the supply of love in the world, you are believing a lie. At the very least, you always have the option to offer yourself kindness and understanding. That alone can increase the supply of love in the world.
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Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury.
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Make stuff up. Anyone who ever did something new or interesting was making it up as they went along.
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Whenever you go somewhere that speaks to your soul, you are going home to yourself.
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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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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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Feel about yourself what you would have others feel about themselves.
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The more you claim your own destiny, the easier it will be to love unconditionally .
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Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.
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The end goal of all of this striving is to live joyfully, and that there are often more direct ways of achieving this than conforming to rigid standards set by social custom.
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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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Sometimes a psychic tells you something and it feels wrong and others may be right on the money. It's your choice about whom to trust, and giving that trust is something we do ourselves.
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