Quote

To attract something that you want, become as joyful as you think that thing would make you.

Martha Beck

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Martha Beck
Age: 61
Born: 1962
Born: November 29
Author
Journalist
Sociologist
Provo
Utah
Make
Would
Think
Attract
Thinking
Joyful
Joy
Become
Thing
Something

More quotes by Martha Beck

Image
Angels come in many shapes and sizes, and most of them are not invisible.
Martha Beck
Image
Remember, intimacy increases with honesty. Share less to keep people away and more to draw them closer.
Martha Beck
Image
Imagine what you'd do if it absolutely didn't matter what people thought of you. Got it? Good. Never go back.
Martha Beck
Image
To be really productive, it's as important to rest when we're tired as it is to work when we're inspired.
Martha Beck
Image
Any moment you spend attacking yourself is a moment away from your higher purpose and your power to love. Don't go there.
Martha Beck
Image
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.
Martha Beck
Image
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.
Martha Beck
Image
Conflict in close relationships is not only inevitable, it's essential. Intimacy connects people who are inevitably different.
Martha Beck
Image
Don't expect the future to look like the past. Clear away expectations, and let yourself picture a wild, grand new world.
Martha Beck
Image
Question every thought that causes suffering and test it against your own sense of truth.
Martha Beck
Image
External circumstances do not create feeling states. Feeling states create external circumstances.
Martha Beck
Image
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.
Martha Beck
Image
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.
Martha Beck
Image
Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.
Martha Beck
Image
If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you
Martha Beck
Image
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.
Martha Beck
Image
What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.
Martha Beck
Image
Don't let your life revolve around whatever you're trying not to do or feel. Live to experience, not to avoid.
Martha Beck
Image
In the moments I get it right, every step I take seems to be matched by a universal mystery, which obligingly, incredibly, creates what I can't.
Martha Beck
Image
I majored in Chinese. I was never really good at Chinese but I really, really benefited from having been exposed to Asian philosophy early in my life.
Martha Beck