Martha Beck Inspirational Quotations

I practice staying calm all the time, beginning with situations that aren't tense.

I'm not saying we have power over everything in our lives - if that were true, my hair would look so, so different - but I am saying that there's no circumstance in which we are completely powerless.

To be really productive, it's as important to rest when we're tired as it is to work when we're inspired.

If anything is worth doing, it is worth doing it badly.

Don't expect the future to look like the past. Clear away expectations, and let yourself picture a wild, grand new world.

Emotional discomfort, when accepted, rises, crests and falls in a series of waves. Each wave washes a part of us away and deposits treasures we never imagined. Out goes naivete, in comes wisdom; out goes anger, in comes discernment; out goes despair, in comes kindness. No one would call it easy, but the rhythm of emotional pain that we learn to tolerate is natural, constructive and expansive... The pain leaves you healthier than it found you.