64 Martha Beck Quotes for You to Enjoy

Martha Beck

American Author

Born: Nov 29, 1962

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Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar

Not everyone is equally good-looking. Martha Beck

Everyone Good-Looking Equally

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

Nature Pressure Self True Know True Nature Without True Self Social Your

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. Martha Beck

Life People Revolution Only Small Small Children Adult Since Most Industrial Industrial Revolution Without Making Been Left Children Places Worked Help Multiple Homes Away Raise

For the vast majority of world history, human life - both culture and biology - was shaped by scarcity. Food, clothing, shelter, tools, and pretty much everything else had to be farmed or fabricated, at a very high cost in time and energy. Martha Beck

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I have come to believe that there are infinite passageways out of the shadows, infinite vehicles to transport us into the light. Martha Beck

Light Believe Out Shadows Vehicles Come Infinite Us Transport

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. Martha Beck

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. Martha Beck

Future Day Nature Me Every Day Own Every Paranoid About My Own Mentally Habit Neurotic Developed Between Make Optimistic Listing Things

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. Martha Beck

You Experience Result Become Living Take Partly According Expectations Stop Where Available Asia Your Things Position

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

You Creativity Think Others Understand Understood Discover Anything Use Connects

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

Me Worldview Every Seemed Toward Belief Chose

Sacred play is anything that takes you into that right hemisphere of your brain. It turns out that this move away from left to the right hemisphere, that sense of expansiveness and everything, can be accomplished through unusual rhythmic action, or any action that requires so much attention away from words that you cannot think in words. Martha Beck

You Words Sense Action Think Everything Out Through Sacred Takes Attention Unusual Accomplished Brain Left Any Move Anything Cannot Rhythmic Much Much Attention Turns Requires Your Hemisphere Away Play Right