Martha Beck Quotes - Page 2

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• 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.

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  Stars, Believe, People

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• Where your attention goes, your life goes.

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  Attention

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• The important thing is to tell yourself a life story in which you, the hero, are primarily a problem solver rather than a helpless victim. This is well within your power, whatever fate might have dealt you.

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  Hero, Fate, Important

  Martha Beck (2008). “Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live”, p.96, Harmony

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• Pain is like a life coach in your body. It’s what made me a life coach because I started paying a lot of attention to what made me hurt and what didn’t. It turned out my body was trying to steer me away from a life that was absolutely wrong for me and into a life that was absolutely wonderful.

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  Hurt, Pain, Trying

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• The only map of your right life is written on your soul at its most peaceful, and the only sure compass is your heart at its most open.

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  Heart, Soul, Peaceful

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• If you begin to face your fears, something bittersweet
  is going to happen to you: You'll grow up.

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  Growing Up, Faces, Bittersweet

  Martha Beck (2008). “Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live”, p.181, Harmony

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

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  Love, Blind, Said

  "Expecting Adam: A True Story of Birth, Rebirth, and Everyday Magic".

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• Somewhere in there, among the worries, questions, advice and advertising jingles, lives your intuition, your true 'inner voice.' You can hear it to the extent that you give it your attention.

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  Voice, Giving, Worry

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• We are a time-starved people, obsessed with fitting huge achievements into our few years. In the process, we often fill our buckets with things that don't matter or work. But when we give up on trying to change what can't be changed, and simply embrace what we love, a miracle occurs. We notice that the moment to be happy has already arrived. It's here, now.

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  Giving Up, Years, People

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• Your body is free but your heart is in prison. To release your heart, you simply reverse the process which locked it up. First you begin to listen for messages from your heart-messages you may have been ignoring since childhood. Next you must take the daring, risky step of expressing your heart in the outside world. . . . As you learn to live by heart, every choice you make will become another way of telling your story. . . . It is the way you were meant to exist. If you stop to listen, you'll realize that your heart has been telling you so all along.

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  Inspirational, Life, Sadness

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

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  Feelings, States, Circumstances

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

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• What would you do if you knew that every good thing in your life depended on your getting enough rest? Because it does.

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  Doe, Enough, Good Things

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• Connecting with the people who are meant to be part of your own North Star is much more important than any aspect of business. It's the essence of happiness, the full realization of your potential for joy.

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  Friends, Stars, Essence

  Martha Beck (2008). “Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live”, p.338, Harmony

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• 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.

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  Coffee, Elderly, Middle

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• The way that other people judge me is none of my business.

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  People, Judging, Way

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• Welcoming imperfection is the way to accomplish what perfectionism promises but never delivers. It gives us our best performance and genuine acceptance in the family of human -- and by that I mean imperfect -- beings.

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  Mean, Acceptance, Giving

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• To attract something that you want, become as joyful as you think that thing would make you.

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  Thinking, Joy, Want

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

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  Running, Feelings

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• The way out of fear isn’t safety. It’s freedom.

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  Safety, Way

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• You shine for who you are ... because no one can steal your light.

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  Motivational, Light, Shining

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• A true leader is not someone who feels fully informed but someone who continuously receives insight and guidance.

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  Leader, Guidance, Insight

  Martha Beck (2009). “Steering by Starlight: Find Your Right Life, No Matter What!”, p.211, Rodale

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• Humans only really learn from each other by storytelling. We didn't evolve to memorize things. We evolved to hear each other's stories and feel them in our heart. Your life is the most powerful story you can tell.

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  Powerful, Heart, Stories

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• I’ll tell you what it’s time to do right now. It’s time to set your schedule in order so that you don’t look back on the day of your death and wonder why you never really lived. It’s time to ignore the opinions of those who think your life should be all about their cause, their rules, their agenda, and not your soul’s desire. It’s time to stop flagellating and start dancing.

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  Thinking, Order, Dancing

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• You can't stay well without telling--and living--the truth.

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  Wells

  Martha Beck (2008). “Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live”, p.158, Harmony

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• Most unhappy people need to learn just one lesson: how to see themselves through the lens of genuine compassion, and treat themselves accordingly.

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  Compassion, People, Unhappy

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