Martha Beck Famous Quotes
Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want.
The power to bring me out of solitude - or to push me back into it - had never belonged to another person. It was mine and only mine.
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.
"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."
Martha Beck Quotations
There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.
Jerry Seinfeld
A man is related to all nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it."
Samuel Johnson
When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.
Clifton Paul Fadiman
"Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary monetary matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself."
William Cobbett
"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do."
Roosevelt Eleanor
"Whenever I hear, 'It can't be done,' I know I'm close to success."
Michael Flatley
"Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you -- gently, with love, and hand your life back to you."
Tennessee Williams
"The god of the cannibals will be a cannibal, of the crusaders a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Information Superhighway is really an acronym for 'Interactive Network For Organizing, Retrieving, Manipulating, Accessing And Transferring Information On National Systems, Unleashing Practically Every Rebellious Human Intelligence, Gratifying Hackers, Wiseacres, And Yahoos'."
Keven Kwaku