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No part of your experience is wasted. Everything you've experienced so far is part of what you were meant to learn.

Martha Beck

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Martha Beck
Age: 61
Born: 1962
Born: November 29
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Trying to motivate yourself with fear is like screaming at a child, “Do something, dammit!” You’ll either freeze up or act in counterproducti ve ways. Fear widens the knowing-doing gap. Don’t use it.
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Your first daily priority should be stillness, attention to what you really know and what you really feel.
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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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Do whatever it takes to convey your essential self.
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Imagine the choices you'd make if you had no fear-of falling, of losing, of being alone, of disapproval.
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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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Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals.
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What should you do now? Find a new way. A better way. Your way. The unknown, uncharted path through this wild new world that allows you---yourself, in your uniqueness--to reclaim the full measure of your true nature.
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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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Welcoming imperfection is the way to accomplish what perfectionism promises but never delivers. It gives us our best performance and genuine acceptance in the family of human -- and by that I mean imperfect -- beings.
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Slow is fast, gentle is powerful and stillness moves mountains
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My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think we know, we ignore or avoid evidence of anything that might change our mind.
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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.
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People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures.
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Anyone who comes into your life, under any circumstances, has something to teach you.
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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.
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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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To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
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Having fun is not a diversion from a successful life it is the pathway to it.
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Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look.
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