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Where your attention goes, your life goes.

Martha Beck

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Martha Beck
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: November 29
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Journalist
Sociologist
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Life

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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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The idea is to identify a destructive thought pattern, then simply label it and watch it and let it pass by whenever it appears in your mind.
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Criticism is an alluring substitute for creation, because tearing things down, unlike building them up, really is as easy as falling off a stump. It's blissfully simple to strike a savvy, sophisticated pose by attacking someone else's creations, but the old adage is right: Any fool can burn down a barn. Building one is something else again.
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Don’t worry that you’ve wasted time. Each moment -- no matter how frozen or confused -- was a useful and necessary lesson.
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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.
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If you're miserable, make a choice. If you're still miserable, you can choose again.
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Recurrent floods of sadness and anger gradually wash away the rubble of the defunct relationship, leaving only the bits of treasure: the remembered moments of real communion, a new understanding of your own mistakes, a clear picture of the dysfunctions you will never tolerate again.
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If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can.
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I have come to believe that there are infinite passageways out of the shadows, infinite vehicles to transport us into the light.
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Perpetually doing, without ever tuning in to the center of our being, is the equivalent of fueling a mighty ship by tossing all its navigational equipment into the furnace.
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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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To be really productive, it's as important to rest when we're tired as it is to work when we're inspired.
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You're exactly where you're meant to be, meandering along a crooked path.
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Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.
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People who get what they want tend to be the ones who make the effort to know what they want.
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If you did nothing but pursue the truth about yourself for the rest of your life, you would never run out of fresh discoveries.
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Most of our stress and suffering come not from events, but from our thoughts. Reframe from negative thoughts, and stress subsides.
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You get social pressure from your parents, who teach you to pay attention to certain things and not to others. You get it in school.
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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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People don’t cry when they lose their hope. They cry when they get it back.
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