Quote

Imagine the choices you'd make if you had no fear-of falling, of losing, of being alone, of disapproval.

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
Alone
Choices
Fear
Fall
Make
Disapproval
Falling
Losing
Imagine

More quotes by Martha Beck

Image
Bad artists ignore the darkness of human existence. Good artists often get stuck there. Great artists embrace the full catastrophe of our condition and find beyond it an even deeper truth of peace, healing, and redemption.
Martha Beck
Image
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.
Martha Beck
Image
You do not owe anyone your time. When you realize that, others will respect your time much more.
Martha Beck
Image
Heading towards that inner home will take you places-both inside yourself and in the external world-which your heart will recognize as its native environment, even though you have never been there before.
Martha Beck
Image
Conflict in close relationships is not only inevitable, it's essential. Intimacy connects people who are inevitably different.
Martha Beck
Image
If you did nothing but pursue the truth about yourself for the rest of your life, you would never run out of fresh discoveries.
Martha Beck
Image
Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.
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
Make a plan to change the world. For one night, don't disbelieve that you can.
Martha Beck
Image
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.
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
The way out of fear isn’t safety. It’s freedom.
Martha Beck
Image
Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.
Martha Beck
Image
Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury.
Martha Beck
Image
Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which case we feel 107.
Martha Beck
Image
Learning to let go of expectations is a ticket to peace. It allows us to ride over every crisis—small or large, brother-in-law or end-of-quarter office lockdown—like a beach ball on water. The next time a problem arises in your life, take a deep breath, let out a sigh, and replace the thought Oh no! with the thought Okay.
Martha Beck
Image
You're exactly where you're meant to be, meandering along a crooked path.
Martha Beck
Image
Question every thought that causes suffering and test it against your own sense of truth.
Martha Beck
Image
Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want.
Martha Beck
Image
Good fortune has side effects.
Martha Beck