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Your individuality is the most valuable thing you have.

Martha Beck

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Martha Beck
Age: 61
Born: 1962
Born: November 29
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Journalist
Sociologist
Provo
Utah
Individuality
Valuable
Thing

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Make a plan to change the world. For one night, don't disbelieve that you can.
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When making a decision, focus on what feels shackles off versus shackles on.
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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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At times in my life, I have been utterly lonely. At other times, I've had disgusting infectious diseases. Try admitting these things in our culture.
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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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Play until it's time to rest, then rest until it's time to play.
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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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People who get what they want tend to be the ones who make the effort to know what they want.
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Trust in your truth. It will be the best decision you ever make.
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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.
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If you begin to face your fears, something bittersweet is going to happen to you: You'll grow up.
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External circumstances do not create feeling states. Feeling states create external circumstances.
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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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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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Good fortune has side effects.
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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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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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The past doesn’t exist except as a memory, a mental story, and though past events aren’t changeable, your stories about them are. You can act now to transform the way you tell the story of your past, ultimately making it a stalwart protector of your future.
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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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