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Where your attention goes, your life goes.

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Martha Beck
Age: 61
Born: 1962
Born: November 29
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Journalist
Sociologist
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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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Peace is more than just a feeling. It's the mental and physical frequency where you'll find all your real power.
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I want you to notice is that-right here, right now-you’re okay. You may be in pain, you may be in fear, you may be in grief. But you’re here, you’re surviving this moment is okay.
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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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People don’t cry when they lose their hope. They cry when they get it back.
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Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.
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What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.
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Feel about yourself what you would have others feel about themselves.
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Anyone who comes into your life, under any circumstances, has something to teach you.
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If a problem looks difficult, relax. If it looks impossible, relax even more. Then begin encouraging small changes, putting just enough pressure on yourself to move one turtle step forward. Then rest, savor, celebrate. Then step again. You’ll find that slow is fast, gentle is powerful, and stillness moves mountains.
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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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Constantly measuring ourselves against others sours and shortens our lives, robbing us of the very things we think it will bring: prosperity, love, inner peace, the knowledge that we’re good enough.
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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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Menders of all times and places have taught that silencing the thoughts in our heads and opening to the experience of the body and emotions is the basis of all healing. It's the only means by which we can reclaim our true nature or feel the subtle cues telling us how to find our way through life.
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Question every thought that causes suffering and test it against your own sense of truth.
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The more you claim your own destiny, the easier it will be to love unconditionally .
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Be brave enough to turn away from shiny objects, and toward the light that makes them shine.
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Ten bajillion product ads notwithstanding, your looks are another thing that's basically genetic.
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From a place of stillness, openness, forgiveness and acceptance you can renew your commitment to any eating plan you like.
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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.
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