Martha Beck Quotes About Feelings

Quotes about: Feelings

• 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.

  Martha Beck

  Eye, Oxygen, Feelings

• Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld.

  Martha Beck

  Beautiful, Eye, Feelings

• It isn’t necessary to know exactly how your ideal life will look; you only have to know what feels better and what feels worse…Begin making choices based on what makes you feel freer and happier, rather than on how you think an ideal life should look. It’s the process of feeling our way toward happiness, not the realization of the Platonic ideal, that creates our best lives.

  Martha Beck

  Feel Better, Thinking, Choices

  "How to escape your rat race" by Martha Beck, www.cnn.com. January 19, 2009.

• The way to find your own North Star is not to think or feel your way
  forward but to dissolve the thoughts and feeling that make you miserable.
  You don't have to learn your destiny--you already know it; you just have to unlearn the thoughts that blind you to what you know.

  Martha Beck

  Stars, Destiny, Thinking

  Martha Beck (2009). “Steering by Starlight: The Science and Magic of Finding Your Destiny”, p.18, Rodale

• If you ask people, as I often do, how they make decisions, 'lucky' people will talk about tuning in to information and instincts, while 'unlucky' people often mention pushing away the uncomfortable feeling they were headed for trouble.

  Martha Beck

  Uncomfortable Feeling, People, Decision

  "Learn how to time success and avoid failure" by Martha Beck, www.cnn.com. January 7, 2010.

• If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can.

  Martha Beck

  Lonely, Being Alone, Oxygen

• External circumstances do not create feeling states. Feeling states create external circumstances.

  Martha Beck

  Feelings, States, Circumstances

  Martha Beck (2009). “Steering by Starlight: Find Your Right Life, No Matter What!”, p.6, Rodale

• Many people think passion is a fuzzy feeling that makes taking action effortless. In fact, it's the gritty courage and tenacity to forge onward.

  Martha Beck

  Passion, Thinking, People

• Many of us have spent a lifetime trying to be what we’re not, feeling lousy about ourselves when we fail, and sometimes when we succeed. We hide our differences when, by accepting and celebrating them, we could collaborate to make every effort more exciting, productive enjoyable, and powerful. Personally, I think we should start right now.

  Martha Beck

  Powerful, Thinking, Differences

  "Knowing your 'action' style could lead to success" by Martha Beck, www.cnn.com. January 8, 2008.

• When we run from our feelings, they follow us. Everywhere.

  Martha Beck

  Running, Feelings

• Peace is more than just a feeling. It's the mental and physical frequency where you'll find all your real power.

  Martha Beck

  Real, Feelings, Real Power

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