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Martha Beck
Age: 61
Born: 1962
Born: November 29
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Creating ways to be happy is your life's work, a challenge that won't end until you die.
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People don’t cry when they lose their hope. They cry when they get it back.
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This is the part of us that makes our brief, improbable little lives worth living: the ability to reach through our own isolation and find strength, and comfort, and warmth for and in each other. This is what human beings do. This is what we live for, the way horses live to run.
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Do whatever it takes to convey your essential self.
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To know what that true self is without social pressure is to know your true nature.
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Trust in your truth. It will be the best decision you ever make.
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If you feel stuck in your present life, if you feel no enthusiasm for anything, if you think you have no purpose or that you lost that purpose somewhere along the way, I guarantee you are living in a dungeon made of stories. And that none of those limiting stories are true.
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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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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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Make stuff up. Anyone who ever did something new or interesting was making it up as they went along.
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If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can.
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To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
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Angels come in many shapes and sizes, and most of them are not invisible.
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Welcoming imperfection is the way to accomplish what perfectionism promises but never delivers. It gives us our best performance and genuine acceptance in the family of human -- and by that I mean imperfect -- beings.
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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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Judgments that constrain your giving are the very demons that are keeping you from receiving.
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If your life is cloudy and you're far, far off course, you may have to go on faith for a while, but eventually you'll learn that every time you trust your internal navigation system, you end up closer to your right life.
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Tiny steps will get you to your goal months and months sooner. A little is better than a lot.
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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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Your first daily priority should be stillness, attention to what you really know and what you really feel.
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