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Creating ways to be happy is your life's work, a challenge that won't end until you die.
Martha Beck
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Martha Beck
Age: 61
Born: 1962
Born: November 29
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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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People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures.
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To know what that true self is without social pressure is to know your true nature.
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To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
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Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld.
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There has never been, and never will be, anyone who sees, thinks, or responds exactly the way you do. Whether you’re revolutionizing physics or making a quilt, you must display your differences to make a difference.
Martha Beck
Conflict in close relationships is not only inevitable, it's essential. Intimacy connects people who are inevitably different.
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To be really productive, it's as important to rest when we're tired as it is to work when we're inspired.
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Feel about yourself what you would have others feel about themselves.
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I have come to believe that there are infinite passageways out of the shadows, infinite vehicles to transport us into the light.
Martha Beck
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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When you are in a creative or appreciative zone, you literally have no access to your inner lizard, to that fear-based, non creative, shrieking little beasty who's so afraid you're going to be a bag lady.
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The idea is to identify a destructive thought pattern, then simply label it and watch it and let it pass by whenever it appears in your mind.
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The way to find your own North Star is not to think or feel your way forward but to dissolve the thoughts and feeling that make you miserable. You don't have to learn your destiny--you already know it you just have to unlearn the thoughts that blind you to what you know.
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Remember that it’s okay to ask for help when you’re stumped, because sometimes you really can’t be expected to handle everything alone.
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Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.
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Every day brings new choices.
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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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Don’t worry that you’ve wasted time. Each moment -- no matter how frozen or confused -- was a useful and necessary lesson.
Martha Beck
Make stuff up. Anyone who ever did something new or interesting was making it up as they went along.
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