172 Quotes by Martha N. Beck

Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.

Question every thought that causes suffering and test it against your own sense of truth.

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.

Do whatever work feeds your true self, even if it’s not a safe bet, even if it’s like a crazy risk, even if everyone in your life tells you you’re wrong or bad or crazy.

Does this feel warmer or colder?

Try seeing your world and yourself this way, eyes open to whatever is before you, mind free of dichotomies. Are you good or bad, fragile or tough, wise or foolish? Yes. And so am I.

Stop trying to change your behavior; instead, rethink your beliefs.

Bad artists ignore the darkness of human existence. Good artists often get stuck there. Great artists embrace the full catastrophe of our condition and find beyond it an even deeper truth of peace, healing, and redemption.

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?