Top 180 Martha N. Beck Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Breathe in, breathe out, no fear, no doubt.”

— Martha N. Beck

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2. “Slow is fast, gentle is powerful and stillness moves mountains.”

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3. “The way we do anything is the way we do everything.”

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4. “To be really productive, it’s as important to rest when we’re tired as it is to work when we’re inspired.”

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5. “Having fun is not a diversion from a successful life; it is the pathway to it.”

— Martha N. Beck

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6. “Play until it’s time to rest, then rest until it’s time to play.”

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7. “What should you do now? Find a new way. A better way. Your way. The unknown, uncharted path through this wild new world that allows you – yourself, in your uniqueness – to reclaim the full measure of your true nature.”

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8. “The only way to the Place beyond Fear is to do the thing you fear most. This is how to surrender to your best destiny.”

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9. “Most of our stress and suffering come not from events, but from our thoughts. Reframe from negative thoughts, and stress subsides.”

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10. “Where your attention goes, your life goes.”

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11. “Every day brings new choices.”

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12. “Remember that it’s okay to ask for help when you’re stumped, because sometimes you really can’t be expected to handle everything alone.”

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13. “If you feel stuck in your present life, if you feel no enthusiasm for anything, if you think you have no purpose or that you lost that purpose somewhere along the way, I guarantee you are living in a dungeon made of stories. And that none of those limiting stories are true.”

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14. “Life is full of tough decisions, and nothing makes them easy. But the worst ones are really your personal koans, and tormenting ambivalence is just the sense of satori rising. Try, trust, try, and trust again, and eventually you’ll feel your mind change its focus to a new level of understanding.”

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15. “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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16. “In the pursuit of Knowledge, every day something is added. In the practice of the Way, every day something is dropped. Less and less do you need to force things, until finally you arrive at non-action. When nothing is done, nothing is left undone.”

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17. “The difference between success and failure isn’t the absence of fear but the determination to pursue your heart’s desires no matter how scared you are.”

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18. “Imagine the choices you’d make if you had no fear-of falling, of losing, of being alone, of disapproval.”

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19. “The moment we begin tolerating meanness, in ourselves and others, we are using our authorial power in the service of wrongdoing. We have both the capacity and the obligation to do better.”

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20. “True freedom starts with absolute honesty. The moment you call a problem by its real name, you’re already learning how to make it less harmful.”

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21. “Stop fixating on stuff you can touch and start caring about stuff that touches you.”

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22. “It’s only by starting in a place of peace that we find our purpose and power.”

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23. “The end goal of all of this striving is to live joyfully, and that there are often more direct ways of achieving this than conforming to rigid standards set by social custom.”

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24. “Your first daily priority should be stillness, attention to what you really know and what you really feel.”

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25. “Don’t hide love. If you feel it, express it-not to demand that others love you back, but simply to live outwardly the best of what you feel inwardly. The worst that can happen to your heart is not rejection by another person but failure to act on the love you feel.”

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26. “Here is the crux of the matter, the distilled essence, the only thing you need to remember: When considering whether to say yes or no, you must choose the response that feels like freedom. Period.”

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27. “During the times we think we’re being “unproductive,” the seeds of new worlds are germinating within us, and they need peace to grow.”

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28. “You’re exactly where you’re meant to be, meandering along a crooked path.”

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29. “Everything always passes, and everything is already okay. Stay in the place where you can see that, and nothing will resist you.”

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30. “Don’t let your life revolve around whatever you’re trying not to do or feel. Live to experience, not to avoid.”

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31. “Own your failure openly, publicly, with genuine regret but absolutely no shame, and you’ll reap a harvest of forgiveness, trust, respect, and connection-the things you thought you’d get by succeeding. Ironic, isn’t it?”

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32. “I am free, and always have been; free to accept my own reality, free to trust my perceptions, free to believe what makes me feel sane even if others call me crazy, free to disagree even if it means great loss, free to seek the way home until I find it.”

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33. “Conflict in close relationships is not only inevitable, it’s essential. Intimacy connects people who are inevitably different.”

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34. “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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35. “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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36. “If your life is cloudy and you’re far, far off course, you may have to go on faith for a while, but eventually you’ll learn that every time you trust your internal navigation system, you end up closer to your right life.”

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37. “People don’t cry when they lose their hope. They cry when they get it back.”

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38. “Be brave enough to turn away from shiny objects, and toward the light that makes them shine.”

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39. “We can’t save ourselves from fear by seeking safety, because safety always means there’s something to be safe from-in other words, something to fear. The way out of fear isn’t safety. It’s freedom.”

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

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41. “When we run from our feelings, they follow us. Everywhere.”

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42. “Whenever you go somewhere that speaks to your soul, you are going home to yourself.”

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43. “Imagine what you’d do if it absolutely didn’t matter what people thought of you. Got it? Good. Never go back.”

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44. “Don’t worry that you’ve wasted time. Each moment – no matter how frozen or confused – was a useful and necessary lesson.”

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45. “Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.”

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46. “To know what that true self is without social pressure is to know your true nature.”

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47. “If you’re doing something you love with people you love in a place you love, you are going to create something of value to the world.”

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48. “The way that other people judge me is none of my business.”

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49. “Don’t expect the future to look like the past. Clear away expectations, and let yourself picture a wild, grand new world.”

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50. “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.”

— Martha N. Beck