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Martha Beck, born on November 29, 1962, is an American author whose works cover a range of topics including personal growth, career development, and life philosophy. Known for her unique perspective and insightful writing style, Beck has helped countless readers find direction and balance in their complex lives.

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Famous Martha Beck Quotes

“Adults under threat feel like children.”

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“Does this feel warmer or colder?”

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“When making a decision, focus on what feels "shackles off" versus "shackles on".”

Feels Choices Decision Focus Versus Shackles

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“The effect of emotional venting is to sustain an unsatisfactory status quo. Most people think the opposite, that complaining is part of an effort to change an unsatisfying situation. Nope. Complaining lets off pressure so that we neither explode with frustration nor feel compelled to take the often risky steps of openly opposing a difficult person or situation. Keeping emotional pressure tolerably low doesn't change problematic circumstances but rather perpetuates them.”

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“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.”

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

Feels Leader Insight Guidance True Leader

Book:Steering by Starlight: Find Your Right Life, No Matter What!

Source: Steering by Starlight: Find Your Right Life, No Matter What!

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

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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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“When fear makes your choices for you, no security measures on earth will keep the things you dread from finding you. But if you can avoid avoidance - if you can choose to embrace experiences out of passion, enthusiasm, and a readiness to feel whatever arises - then nothing, nothing in all this dangerous world, can keep you from being safe.”

Ifs World Feels Earth Choices Passion Security Dangerous Safe Findings Embrace Arise Enthusiasm Dread Avoidance Readiness Dangerous World Security Measures

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“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.”

Source: Leaving the Saints: How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith

“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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“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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“Feel about yourself what you would have others feel about themselves.”

Feels About Yourself

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“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.”

Thinking Knows Way Feels Feelings Stars Destiny Blind Miserable Your Destiny Thoughts And Feelings Unlearn Way Forward North Star

Book:Steering by Starlight: The Science and Magic of Finding Your Destiny

Source: Steering by Starlight: The Science and Magic of Finding Your Destiny

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Way Feels Made Stories Purpose Lost Stuck Enthusiasm Guarantees Dungeons Present Life

Book:Steering by Starlight: Find Your Right Life, No Matter What!

Source: Steering by Starlight: Find Your Right Life, No Matter What!

“The really potent part of love is that it allows you to carry around beliefs about yourself that make you feel special, desirable, precious, innately good. Your lover couldn't have seen [these qualities] in you, even temporarily, if they weren't part of your essential being.”

Ifs Feels Belief Love Is Quality Special Lovers Essentials About Yourself Desirable

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“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.”

Ifs Feels Heart Persons Happens Worst Love You Demand Rejection Failure To Act Hide Love

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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.”

Feels Cases Middle Havens Including Coffee Acquaintance Elderly Middle Aged

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“Rest until you feel like playing, then play until you feel like resting, period. Never do anything else.”

Feels Play Periods

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“Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young.”

Feels Children Young Responsibility Adults Assuming

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“Given the eclectic and constantly shifting nature of my metaphysical inclinations, I will probably never feel certain exactly what an angel is.”

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“We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster.”

Thinking Feels Should Age Disaster

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“Sometimes a psychic tells you something and it feels wrong and others may be right on the money. It's your choice about whom to trust, and giving that trust is something we do ourselves.”

Giving Feels May Sometimes Choices Psychics Whom To Trust

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“Menders of all times and places have taught that silencing the thoughts in our heads and opening to the experience of the body and emotions is the basis of all healing. It's the only means by which we can reclaim our true nature or feel the subtle cues telling us how to find our way through life.”

Way Feels Mean Body Emotion Healing Taught Bases Opening All Time Subtle True Nature Silencing

Book:Finding Your Way in a Wild New World: Reclaim Your True Nature to Create the Life You Want

Source: Finding Your Way in a Wild New World: Reclaim Your True Nature to Create the Life You Want