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Self-improvement books, friends, and polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical appearance that prevent many of us from facing, discussing, and solving our real problems.
~ Martha Beck
About
Appearance
Books
Discussing
Facing
Friends
Lies
Many
Often
Our
Physical
Physical Appearance
Polite
Prevent
Problems
Real
Real Problems
Self-Improvement
Solving
Soothing
Strangers
Tell
Us
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Self-pity, a dominant characteristic of sociopaths, is also the characteristic that differentiates heroic storytelling from psychological rumination. When you talk about your experiences to shed light, you may feel wrenching pain, grief, anger, or shame. Your audience may pity you, but not because you want them to.
~ Martha Beck
About
Also
Anger
Audience
Because
Characteristic
Dominant
Experiences
Feel
Grief
Heroic
Light
May
Pain
Pity
Psychological
Self-Pity
Shame
Shed
Storytelling
Talk
Them
Want
You
Your
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Since our society equates happiness with youth, we often assume that sorrow, quiet desperation, and hopelessness go hand in hand with getting older. They don't. Emotional pain or numbness are symptoms of living the wrong life, not a long life.
~ Martha Beck
Assume
Desperation
Emotional
Getting
Getting Older
Go
Hand
Hand-In-Hand
Happiness
Hopelessness
Life
Living
Long
Long Life
Often
Older
Our
Pain
Quiet
Since
Society
Sorrow
Symptoms
Wrong
Youth
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Something in the human psyche confuses beauty with the right to be loved. The briefest glance at human folly reveals that good looks and worthiness operate independently. Yet countless socializing forces, from Aunt Clara to the latest perfume ad, reinforce beliefs like 'If I were pretty enough, I would be loved.'
~ Martha Beck
Ad
Aunt
Beauty
Beliefs
Confuses
Countless
Enough
Folly
Forces
Glance
Good
Good Looks
Human
Human Psyche
Independently
Latest
Like
Looks
Loved
Operate
Perfume
Pretty
Psyche
Reinforce
Reveals
Right
Socializing
Something
Were
Worthiness
Would
Would-Be
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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.
~ Martha Beck
About
Choice
Feels
Giving
May
Money
Others
Ourselves
Psychic
Right
Something
Sometimes
Tells
Trust
Whom
Wrong
You
Your
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Ten bajillion product ads notwithstanding, your looks are another thing that's basically genetic.
~ Martha Beck
Ads
Another
Basically
Genetic
Looks
Notwithstanding
Product
Ten
Thing
Your
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Ten years ago, I still feared loss enough to abandon myself in order to keep things stable. I'd smile when I was sad, pretend to like people who appalled me. What I now know is that losses aren't cataclysmic if they teach the heart and soul their natural cycle of breaking and healing.
~ Martha Beck
Abandon
Appalled
Breaking
Cycle
Enough
Feared
Healing
Heart
Heart And Soul
Keep
Know
Like
Loss
Losses
Me
Myself
Natural
Now
Order
People
Pretend
Sad
Smile
Soul
Stable
Still
Teach
Ten
Ten Years
Ten Years Ago
Things
Who
Years
Years Ago
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The great power of separating the watching mind from the thinking mind is that the watching mind is innately loving. Some call this part of the psyche the 'compassionate witness.' Sharing our difficult feelings with a compassionate witness is the crucial step that heals the infinite small wounds inflicted upon the soul by everyday life.
~ Martha Beck
Call
Compassionate
Crucial
Difficult
Everyday
Everyday Life
Feelings
Great
Great Power
Heals
Infinite
Inflicted
Innately
Life
Loving
Mind
Our
Part
Power
Psyche
Separating
Sharing
Small
Some
Soul
Step
Thinking
Watching
Witness
Wounds
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The most common reason we stumble into the delusion of powerlessness is that we're afraid of what other people would do or say or feel if we were to act as we wanted.
~ Martha Beck
Act
Afraid
Common
Delusion
Feel
Most
Other
People
Powerlessness
Reason
Say
Stumble
Wanted
Were
Would
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The pretty girls get all the good stuff. Oh, God. So not true. I unlearned this after years of coaching beautiful clients. Yes, these lovelies get preferential treatment in most life scenarios, but there's a catch: While everyone's looking at them, virtually no one sees them.
~ Martha Beck
After
Beautiful
Catch
Clients
Coaching
Everyone
Get
Girl
God
Good
Life
Looking
Most
No-One
Oh
Oh God
Pretty
Pretty Girls
Scenarios
Sees
Stuff
Them
Treatment
True
Virtually
While
Years
Yes
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The process of spotting fear and refusing to obey it is the source of all true empowerment.
~ Martha Beck
Empowerment
Fear
Obey
Process
Refusing
Source
True
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The thing I love most about my job is watching people age backward, becoming more lively and energetic as they free themselves from situations that are toxic to their essential selves.
~ Martha Beck
About
Age
Backward
Becoming
Energetic
Essential
Free
I Love
Job
Lively
Love
More
Most
People
Selves
Situations
Themselves
Thing
Toxic
Watching
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The way we can allow ourselves to do what we need to, no matter what others may say or do, is to choose love and defy fear.
~ Martha Beck
Allow
Choose
Choose Love
Defy
Fear
Love
Matter
May
Need
Others
Ourselves
Say
Way
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The way we do anything is the way we do everything.
~ Martha Beck
Anything
Everything
Way
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There are several ways to mess up your life by fighting to make your calendar age match your felt age. I live in the Southwest, a part of the country with more than its share of fair skies, material wealth, and people who are trying not to be as old as they are.
~ Martha Beck
Age
Calendar
Country
Fair
Felt
Fighting
Life
Live
Make
Match
Material
Material Wealth
Mess
More
Old
Part
People
Several
Share
Skies
Southwest
Than
Trying
Up
Ways
Wealth
Who
Your
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Tiny steps will get you to your goal months and months sooner. A little is better than a lot.
~ Martha Beck
Better
Get
Goal
Little
Lot
Months
Sooner
Steps
Than
Tiny
Will
You
Your
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To complete your daily mental hygiene, observe any part of you that is upset or anxious, and offer that part of yourself the following simple wishes: 'May you be well. May you be happy. May you be free from suffering.' Repeat this until you actually mean it.
~ Martha Beck
Actually
Anxious
Any
Be Happy
Complete
Daily
Following
Free
Happy
Hygiene
May
Mean
Mental
Observe
Offer
Part
Repeat
Simple
Suffering
Until
Upset
Well
Wishes
You
Your
Yourself
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To know what that true self is without social pressure is to know your true nature.
~ Martha Beck
Know
Nature
Pressure
Self
Social
True
True Nature
True Self
Without
Your
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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.
~ Martha Beck
Be Happy
Believe
Course
Dying
Form
Happy
Life
Like
Live
Lives
Look
North
Off
People
Perfect
Satisfied
Should
Star
Try
Trying
Who
Wrong
You
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To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
~ Martha Beck
Activity
Adding
Appealing
Becomes
Joyful
Keep
Make
More
Than
Things
Until
Whole
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