G. Beck Quotes

Anyone who comes into your life, under any circumstances, has something to teach you.

Does this feel warmer or colder?

Don't fight fearful thoughts. Just match each one with an alternative thought that brings you more peace.

The repercussions of one person living in stubborn gladness are incalculable.

Don't let your life revolve around whatever you're trying not to do or feel. Live to experience, not to avoid.

Most of our stress and suffering come not from events, but from our thoughts. Reframe from negative thoughts, and stress subsides.

The more you claim your own destiny, the easier it will be to love unconditionally .

You get social pressure from your parents, who teach you to pay attention to certain things and not to others. You get it in school.

In the moments I get it right, every step I take seems to be matched by a universal mystery, which obligingly, incredibly, creates what I can't.

I want you to notice is that-right here, right now-you’re okay. You may be in pain, you may be in fear, you may be in grief. But you’re here, you’re surviving; this moment is okay.

Be brave enough to turn away from shiny objects, and toward the light that makes them shine.

Take off your watch: the divine is speaking to you.

Imagination is the doorway you walk through into every future moment. Are you walking through doorways to pain or to joy?

Whenever you go somewhere that speaks to your soul, you are going home to yourself.

Tiny steps will get you to your goal months and months sooner. A little is better than a lot.

Bracketing has turned all my experiences, remembered and present, into a gallery of miracles where I wander around dazzled by the beauty of events I cannot explain.

Anything you're trying to will is focused on the future; it's always associated with some sort of anxiety that makes the present moment somewhat uncomfortable.

I'd like to help repair the earth's ecosystems, and to fully live until I'm fully dead.

I fell in love with Africa and began helping people fix things there.

You will know how to stop suffering as soon as suffering ceases to be valuable. If you are in pain, you are being led.

I don't believe that there are no spiritual beings around us. I don't know what to call them, I don't know how they work. But I know they're there

Stop trying to change your behavior; instead, rethink your beliefs

If you're religious, it gives you a perspective.

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.

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

My deep belief is that all of us have the same lifelong work: to learn honesty, courage, and love. To learn, in other words, how to be our best selves.

The idea is to identify a destructive thought pattern, then simply label it and watch it and let it pass by whenever it appears in your mind.

Make a plan to change the world. For one night, don't disbelieve that you can.

I've developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day.

The end goal of all of this striving is to live joyfully, and that there are often more direct ways of achieving this than conforming to rigid standards set by social custom.

From a place of stillness, openness, forgiveness and acceptance you can renew your commitment to any eating plan you like.

Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want.

Learning to quit while you're not ahead, when the dull ooze of depression tells you things are not going to get any better, is one of the best financial and life skills you can master.

Friends, there are many areas in which I need encouragement, but worrying is not one of them. I worry the way Renée Fleming sings high Cs: Effortlessly. Loudly. At length.

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 know what that true self is without social pressure is to know your true nature.

Many people think passion is a fuzzy feeling that makes taking action effortless. In fact, it's the gritty courage and tenacity to forge onward.

People don’t cry when they lose their hope. They cry when they get it back.

Creating ways to be happy is your life's work, a challenge that won't end until you die.

I want you to be supervised, all day every day, by people who forgive your errors and believe in your destiny.

If you want to end your isolation, you must be honest about what you want at a core level and decide to go after it.

Feel about yourself what you would have others feel about themselves.

Conflict in close relationships is not only inevitable, it's essential. Intimacy connects people who are inevitably different.

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.

The moment we begin tolerating meanness, in ourselves and others, we are using our authorial power in the service of wrongdoing. We have both the capacity and the obligation to do better.

In fact, when care appears, unconditional love often vanishes.

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

It's only by starting in a place of peace that we find our purpose and power.

No one can give you anything-love, shame, self-esteem- until you give it to yourself. Today, give yourself good things.

To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.