33 Quotes by Martha Beck
- Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is to the brain. If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can.
- 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.
- Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.
- Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury.
- Given the eclectic and constantly shifting nature of my metaphysical inclinations, I will probably never feel certain exactly what an angel is.
- Every day brings new choices.
- Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals.
- Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld.
- 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.
- Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation.
- Adults under threat feel like children.
- Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.
- Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young.
- Use anything you can think of to understand and be understood, and you'll discover the creativity that connects you with others.
- I have come to believe that there are infinite passageways out of the shadows, infinite vehicles to transport us into the light.
- Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy.
- When you meet people, show real appreciation, then genuine curiosity.
- We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster.
- 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.
- The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times.
- 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.
- Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you.
- Polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical appearance that prevent many of us from facing, discussing and solving our real problems.
- If you're religious, it gives you a perspective.
- 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.
- What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.
- People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures.
- If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you.
- Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.
- Most of my clients don't realize that the way they look and the way they think about their looks are two separate issues.
- 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.
- No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.
- Success is just failure that refused to be discouraged.
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