#be

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. ↗

— Martha Beck

#beings #believe #call #how #i

I majored in Chinese. I was never really good at Chinese but I really, really benefited from having been exposed to Asian philosophy early in my life. ↗

— Martha Beck

#been #benefited #chinese #early #exposed

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

— Martha Beck

#calm #i #practice #situations #staying

Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise small children without the help of multiple adults, making for an unsupported life. ↗

— Martha Beck

#been #children #help #homes #industrial

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

— Martha Beck

#adding #appealing #becomes #joyful #keep

I guess god simply wants me to meet many wrong people before I meet the right one. ↗

— Karla M. Nashar

#beauty

Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#philosophy #tao-te-ching #beauty

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

— Martha Beck

#get #goal #little #lot #months

A few years after my first son was born, he wanted to know how we chose his name, so I began reading him the story of Noah's Ark. ↗

— Boris Becker

#ark #began #born #chose #few

It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through. ↗

— Zig Ziglar

#bed #character #commitment #discipline #enabled