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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
Author
Journalist
Sociologist
Provo
Utah
Childhood
Heartless
Adolescence
Laughter
Sex

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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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You have the freedom to live and let live, to love and let love. Granting yourself that freedom is one of the healthiest, most constructive things you can do for yourself and the people who matter to you.
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Slow is fast, gentle is powerful and stillness moves mountains
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You get social pressure from your parents, who teach you to pay attention to certain things and not to others. You get it in school.
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Though we often see life troughs as the universe's conspiracy to ruin us, they're actually our own true nature inviting us to lay down our weary heads.
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I want you to notice is that-right here, right now-you’re okay. You may be in pain, you may be in fear, you may be in grief. But you’re here, you’re surviving this moment is okay.
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A true leader is not someone who feels fully informed but someone who continuously receives insight and guidance.
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During the times we think we’re being “unproductive,” the seeds of new worlds are germinating within us, and they need peace to grow.
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No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.
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Good fortune has side effects.
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Most unhappy people need to learn just one lesson: how to see themselves through the lens of genuine compassion, and treat themselves accordingly.
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The part of you that is unhampered by illusion-the illusion of time, the illusion of powerlessness, the illusion of impossibility-i s waiting for you to slow down and open up so that it can speak to your consciousness. In some unguarded moment, you will hear its wildly improbable words and know that they are guiding you home.
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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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To attract something that you want, become as joyful as you think that thing would make you.
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Peace is more than just a feeling. It's the mental and physical frequency where you'll find all your real power.
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Imagination is the doorway you walk through into every future moment. Are you walking through doorways to pain or to joy?
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As any good Buddhist will tell you, the only way to find permanent joy is by embracing the fact that nothing is permanent.
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Make a plan to change the world. For one night, don't disbelieve that you can.
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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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If you're miserable, make a choice. If you're still miserable, you can choose again.
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