321 Quotes by Martha Beck

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

Imagine the choices you'd make if you had no fear-of falling, of losing, of being alone, of disapproval.

You have the freedom to live and let live, to love and let love. Granting yourself that freedom is one of the healthiest, most constructive things you can do for yourself and the people who matter to you.

Your individuality is the most valuable thing you have.

Many of us assume that we have to do things a certain way: ignore passion in favor of safer bets, act stoic amid inner turmoil, run on an upward trajectory of success and money acquisition at any emotional cost. But these are not rules.

If you did nothing but pursue the truth about yourself for the rest of your life, you would never run out of fresh discoveries.

As soon as you think you know someone else's truth better than they do, you are in deep water.

I have discovered that many of the things I thought were priceless are as cheap as costume jewelry, and much of what I labeled worthless was, all the time, filled with the kind of beauty that directly nourishes my soul... Now I think that the vast majority of us "normal" people spend our lives trashing our treasures and treasuring our trash. We bustle around trying to create the impression that we are hip, imperturbable, omniscient, in perfect control, when in fact we are awkward and scared and bewildered.

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