Quotes by Martha Beck

About Martha Beck:

Martha Nibley Beck is an American sociologist, life coach, best-selling author, and speaker who specializes in helping individuals and groups achieve personal and professional goals. She holds a bachelor's degree in East Asian Studies and master's and Ph.D. degrees in sociology, both from Harvard University. Beck is the daughter of deceased LDS Church scholar and apologist, Hugh Nibley. She received national attention after publication in 2005 of her best-seller, Leaving the Saints: How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith in which she accuses her father of sexual abuse. In addition to authoring several books, Beck is a columnist for O, The Oprah Magazine.
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Comparing and contrasting is a valuable human skill - and not just during high school English exams. Our ability to rank-order things is invaluable in making choices and setting priorities.

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As much horror as we have always created, we are a species that keeps moving forward, seeing new sights in new ways, and enjoying the journey.

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Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is to the brain. If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can.

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Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals.

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

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The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times.

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Instead of fretting about getting everything done, why not simply accept that being alive means having things to do? Then drop into full engagement with whatever you're doing, and let the worry go.

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Use anything you can think of to understand and be understood, and you'll discover the creativity that connects you with others.

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What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.

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I'd like to help repair the earth's ecosystems, and to fully live until I'm fully dead.

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Tiny steps will get you to your goal months and months sooner. A little is better than a lot.

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If you're feeling intransigently ambivalent, it might pay to formally accept what's already happening - that is, decide not to decide.

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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 ...

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

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If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you.

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Polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical appearance that prevent many of us from facing, discussing and solving our real problems.

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To really boost your sense of self-efficacy, think of ways you could modify your usual tasks to suit your personal style.

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The way we do anything is the way we do everything.

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When your entire brain is active, that means you are taking everything in through all sense perception. Your entire memory bank and your instincts are in play, so you make much quicker and more intelligent choices.

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Sacred play is anything that takes you into that right hemisphere of your brain. It turns out that this move away from left to the right hemisphere, that sense of expansiveness and everything, can be accomplished through unusual rhythmic action, or a...

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As I obsess about my ancient problems, I feel more like I'm sinking in quicksand than lighting a torch. I'm creating neither heat nor light, just the icky, perversely pleasurable squish of self-pity between my toes. My only defense is that I'm not th...

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Author Bio

  • NameMartha Beck
  • DescriptionAmerican sociologist
  • BornNovember 29, 1962
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionSociologist