Martha Beck Quotes

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

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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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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Ten bajillion product ads notwithstanding, your looks are another thing that’s basically genetic.

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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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• We evolved to move and to learn with all our five senses!

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• When your entire brain is active, that means you are taking everything in through all sense perception. Your entire memory bank and your instincts are in play, so you make much quicker and more intelligent choices.

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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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• When you meet people, show real appreciation, then genuine curiosity.

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• What laughter is to childhood, s*x is to adolescence.

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• We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster.

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• Use anything you can think of to understand and be understood, and you’ll discover the creativity that connects you with others.

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• The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations and you become available to experience things as they are.

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• The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times.

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• Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don’t match our own beliefs about how we should look.

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• Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you.

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• Polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical appearance that prevent many of us from facing, discussing and solving our real problems.

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• Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise small children without the help of multiple adults, making for an unsupported life.

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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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Martha Beck (69)

Birth:	29th November, 1962
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Coach, Sociologist

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