If we're stuck with having expectations, there's a very good reason to embrace positive ones: it's that we often create what we anticipate.
Martha BeckIf you did nothing but pursue the truth about yourself for the rest of your life, you would never run out of fresh discoveries.
Martha BeckA lot of my clients say they don't deserve to mope about their sad little memories while children are starving in India. I say that just because your broken arm isn't as serious as someone else's gut wound, that doesn't mean your injury isn't excruciating or doesn't require attention. If you want to help the Indian children, or make the world a better place in any other way, you have to start by becoming whole yourself.
Martha BeckThe 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