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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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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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Life is full of tough decisions, and nothing makes them easy. But the worst ones are really your personal koans, and tormenting ambivalence is just the sense of satori rising. Try, trust, try, and trust again, and eventually you'll feel your mind change its focus to a new level of understanding.
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You shine for who you are ... because no one can steal your light.
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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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If you want to end your isolation, you must be honest about what you want at a core level and decide to go after it.
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The repercussions of one person living in stubborn gladness are incalculable.
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Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.
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When making a decision, focus on what feels shackles off versus shackles on.
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If you did nothing but pursue the truth about yourself for the rest of your life, you would never run out of fresh discoveries.
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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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I'd like to help repair the earth's ecosystems, and to fully live until I'm fully dead.
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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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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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When fear makes your choices for you, no security measures on earth will keep the things you dread from finding you. But if you can avoid avoidance - if you can choose to embrace experiences out of passion, enthusiasm, and a readiness to feel whatever arises - then nothing, nothing in all this dangerous world, can keep you from being safe.
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The important thing is to tell yourself a life story in which you, the hero, are primarily a problem solver rather than a helpless victim. This is well within your power, whatever fate might have dealt 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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