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Martha Beck Quotes

American - Author | November 29, 1962 - 7

I really do think that any deep crisis is an opportunity to make your life extraordinary in some way.

Life Opportunity Deep Think Way

If you want to end your isolation, you must be honest about what you want at a core level and decide to go after it.

Isolation End You Go Want Decide

The process of spotting fear and refusing to obey it is the source of all true empowerment.

Fear Process Empowerment True Source

Whether you've seen angels floating around your bedroom or just found a ray of hope at a lonely moment, choosing to believe that something unseen is caring for you can be a life-shifting exercise.

Hope Moment Caring Believe Lonely

As I obsess about my ancient problems, I feel more like I'm sinking in quicksand than lighting a torch. I'm creating neither heat nor light, just the icky, perversely pleasurable squish of self-pity between my toes. My only defense is that I'm not the only one down here in the muck - our whole culture is doting on tales of personal tragedy.

Light Culture Problems Feel Down

To know what that true self is without social pressure is to know your true nature.

Nature Self Pressure Know True Your

Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals.

Child Caring Result Powerful Quick

Something in the human psyche confuses beauty with the right to be loved. The briefest glance at human folly reveals that good looks and worthiness operate independently. Yet countless socializing forces, from Aunt Clara to the latest perfume ad, reinforce beliefs like 'If I were pretty enough, I would be loved.'

Good Beauty Loved Enough Looks Aunt

Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.

Fear Hope Appreciation Thinking You

It takes about four days of virtuous living to create a little weight loss. That also happens to be the time required to get used to eating less. In other words, if you can get past day three of a fitness regimen, things improve.

Time Fitness Day Past Words Eating

You have the freedom to live and let live, to love and let love. Granting yourself that freedom is one of the healthiest, most constructive things you can do for yourself and the people who matter to you.

Love Live Freedom Yourself People

One reason most people never stop thinking is that mental frenzy keeps us from having to see the upsetting aspects of our lives. If I'm constantly brooding about my children or career, I won't notice that I'm lonely. If I grapple continuously with logistical problems, I can avoid contemplating little issues like, say, my own mortality.

Children People Problems Thinking

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