Quotes By Martha Beck

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

No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.

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

Every worldview I chose, it seemed, edged me toward belief.

Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.

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.

Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury.

In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly have evolved to accommodate it.

Every day brings new choices.

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

Adults under threat feel like children.

Anger elicits anger, fear elicits fear, no matter how well meaning we may be.

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

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

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.

My own nature hovers between neurotic and paranoid. I've developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Denial exists because human infants, though equipped with trust-o-meters, are built to trust, blindly and absolutely, any older person who wanders past.

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

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.

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.

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