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Feel about yourself what you would have others feel about themselves.

Martha Beck

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Martha Beck
Age: 61
Born: 1962
Born: November 29
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Conflict in close relationships is not only inevitable, it's essential. Intimacy connects people who are inevitably different.
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Take off your watch: the divine is speaking to you.
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Having fun is not a diversion from a successful life it is the pathway to it.
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Don't let your life revolve around whatever you're trying not to do or feel. Live to experience, not to avoid.
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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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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 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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Though we often see life troughs as the universe's conspiracy to ruin us, they're actually our own true nature inviting us to lay down our weary heads.
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Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury.
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Most people go through their whole lives, John went on, and never have one miracle happen to them. You've had dozens and dozens, and you still want more! It's like God gives you a brownie, I mean a really good brownie, but you can't be content with it. You want the whole pan of brownies. Nobody gets that.
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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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