Martha Beck Quotes

Painful events leave scars, true, but it turns out they're largely erasable. Jill Bolte Taylor, the neuroanatomist who had a stroke that obliterated her memory, described the event as losing '37 years of emotional baggage.'

Martha Beck

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 29, 1962

Topics

LosingMemoryScarsTrueEventsOut

When I'm clean-shaven and bathed, I look like a lawyer.

John Benjamin Hickey

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In 2010, we have to focus on electing a new Congress and in 2012 we have to focus on electing a new president.

Andrew P. Harris

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I am a particular fan of integrative exercise - that is, exercise that occurs in the course of doing some productive activity such as gardening, bicycling to work, doing home improvement projects and so on.

Andrew Weil

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Don't let fear or insecurity stop you from trying new things. Believe in yourself. Do what you love. And most importantly, be kind to others, even if you don't like them.

Stacy London

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My coaches do all the breakdowns of my opponents, and I leave that up to them.

Robbie Lawler

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I got into law school, and it required a maturity I didn't have at the time.

Ronny Chieng

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To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live.

Ruth Hubbard

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I feel like I'm like a healer in a pop singer's life.

Mary Lambert

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I don't think I have spiritual beliefs in the structured sense - but I believe in the absolute necessity of spirit and a healthy spiritual life. It grew inside me by itself, which is surely the very nature of spirit, and instinctively I protected and nourished it. I also absorbed spirituality by osmosis.

Michael Leunig

LifeNatureSpiritualMeBelieve

To be honest, I don't think I've played bad for England, I've certainly not been as bad as some people say. That criticism has been hard to take. I don't think I've let the country down too many times.

Ashley Cole

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There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.

Sean O'Faolain

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I was always the wise guy class clown throughout my childhood.

Rick Nielsen

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