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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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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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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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The way out of fear isn’t safety. It’s freedom.
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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.
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Take off your watch: the divine is speaking to you.
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