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Take off your watch: the divine is speaking to you.

Martha Beck

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Martha Beck
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: November 29
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Feel about yourself what you would have others feel about themselves.
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If you're miserable, make a choice. If you're still miserable, you can choose again.
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The difference between success and failure isn't the absence of fear but the determination to pursue your heart's desires no matter how scared you are.
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The way out of fear isn’t safety. It’s freedom.
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Learning to spot narcissists and deal with their destructive behavior can save you the world of hurt that awaits anyone who mistakes the near enemy for a friend.
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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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Trust in your truth. It will be the best decision you ever make.
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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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I want you to be supervised, all day every day, by people who forgive your errors and believe in your destiny.
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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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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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The knowledge of your destiny is available to you, well before it actually happens, as a message streaming continuously from your heart to your brain, written in the language of longing.
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In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly have evolved to accommodate it.
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If you ask people, as I often do, how they make decisions, 'lucky' people will talk about tuning in to information and instincts, while 'unlucky' people often mention pushing away the uncomfortable feeling they were headed for trouble.
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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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During the times we think we’re being “unproductive,” the seeds of new worlds are germinating within us, and they need peace to grow.
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To attract something that you want, become as joyful as you think that thing would make you.
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Slow is fast, gentle is powerful and stillness moves mountains
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I've developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day.
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I really do think that any deep crisis is an opportunity to make your life extraordinary in some way.
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