Martha Beck
Martha Beck
Martha Nibley Beckis 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...
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Date of Birth29 November 1962
CountryUnited States of America
You will never realize your best destiny through the avoidance of fear. Rather, you will realize it through the exercise of courage, which means taking whatever action is most liberating to the soul, even when you are afraid.
I’ll tell you what it’s time to do right now. It’s time to set your schedule in order so that you don’t look back on the day of your death and wonder why you never really lived. It’s time to ignore the opinions of those who think your life should be all about their cause, their rules, their agenda, and not your soul’s desire. It’s time to stop flagellating and start dancing.
The holy days are the best times to focus on real enthusiasm, the inner source that lightens and sanctifies our lives all year.
No one can give you anything-love, shame, self-esteem- until you give it to yourself. Today, give yourself good things.
It seems to me at this moment that laughing is a serious thing, that it connects us with truth and love and God.
You do not owe anyone your time. When you realize that, others will respect your time much more.
Having fun is not a diversion from a successful life; it is the pathway to it.
Constantly measuring ourselves against others sours and shortens our lives, robbing us of the very things we think it will bring: prosperity, love, inner peace, the knowledge that we’re good enough.
The difference between success and failure isn't the absence of fear but the determination to pursue your heart's desires no matter how scared you are.
Criticism is an alluring substitute for creation, because tearing things down, unlike building them up, really is as easy as falling off a stump. It's blissfully simple to strike a savvy, sophisticated pose by attacking someone else's creations, but the old adage is right: Any fool can burn down a barn. Building one is something else again.
There are things that can only happen through you when you are still. Silence is often the most important work you can do.
What would you do if you knew that every good thing in your life depended on your getting enough rest? Because it does.
The only way to the Place beyond Fear is to do the thing you fear most. This is how to surrender to your best destiny.
My anguish came from my hypothesis that other people's hypothetical hypotheses about me mattered. Ridiculous!