Quotes By Martha Beck

Adults under threat feel like children.

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

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

Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy.

Sometimes a psychic tells you something and it feels wrong and others may be right on the money. It's your choice about whom to trust, and giving that trust is something we do ourselves.

I don't believe that there are no spiritual beings around us. I don't know what to call them, I don't know how they work. But I know they're there.

Creating ways to be happy is your life's work, a challenge that won't end until you die.

As soon as you think you know someone else's truth better than they do, you are in deep water.

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.

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

I always felt that it was my job to try to help other people get it and deal with it.

I practice staying calm all the time, beginning with situations that aren't tense.

Instead of fretting about getting everything done, why not simply accept that being alive means having things to do? Then drop into full engagement with whatever you're doing, and let the worry go.

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

Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which case we feel 107.

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

My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think we know, we ignore or avoid evidence of anything that might change our mind.

Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.

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.

If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you.

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

Tiny steps will get you to your goal months and months sooner. A little is better than a lot.

Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young.

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.

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.

As much horror as we have always created, we are a species that keeps moving forward, seeing new sights in new ways, and enjoying the journey.

People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures.

Bracketing has turned all my experiences, remembered and present, into a gallery of miracles where I wander around dazzled by the beauty of events I cannot explain.

I fell in love with Africa and began helping people fix things there.

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