Martha Beck Quotes

Until I understand where I am, I can’t get to where I am going. This is the value of a compass when we are out walking or hiking and need to know we’re going in the right direction. But we also have an internal North Star. It’s that little nudge that tells us if we are on the right path to fulfilling our potential, or on the wrong path wasting energy traveling somewhere we don’t need to go. So my advice to you is, pull out that compass every once in a while and make sure you are navigating in the right direction on your journey.

You pursue what you love, and if you find beauty or truth, you go with that.

Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it, listen for what it intends to do with you.

There is only one map to the journey of life and it lives within your heart

When I was growing up in Terrell, Texas, I felt that it was not where I was supposed to be. I knew that I was meant for a different destination. I think that the minute I was born, there was something inside telling me where I would go, it's like energy - an intangible destiny.

I choose to fill my days with what I'm passionate about, and live with purpose.

You have to listen to what resonates within your own gut. You find your direction there. Your voice comes out.

I think that most people will spend their whole life not figuring out what they're meant to do, or figuring out what they're meant to do on their way to do something else. So I just feel lucky that I know what I love to do. Everything else figures itself out.

The best way to find out whether you're on the right path? Stop looking at the path.

There's nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you're meant to do. It's like falling in love.

I feel everyone is put here for a reason. Everyone has a calling. I always thought my real calling was to help other people.

Sometimes you just know what you're placed on this earth to do.

Do what your inner soul tells you to do, regardless of any money or success it will bring you.

I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist.

Starting with the values that feel authentic to who you are can serve as a compass to find more meaningful, fulfilling work.

I always say your truth is your compass to your purpose.

My greatest wish for my children is that they fulfill their purpose. I know that all children - and, in particular, mine - are here for a reason.

When you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that's always been there, waiting for you. And the life that you should be living, is the one that you will be living.

If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living... Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.

I hope it does not take the rest of my life until I find what it is I've been looking for.

One of the greatest struggles of becoming an adult is figuring out what you want to do and what makes you happy. The courageous thing is to stick with it and see it through and see if you were correct.

What better can any of us do than to reach for our own stars ... and know which they are?

I firmly believe that we are all given signs and dreams and put in situations that define who we were and who we are to become. All of it points towards our destiny. All we need to do is listen carefully to the messages and follow our dreams. It is in our dreams that we find our true identities and where our destiny awaits.

Be really, really true to yourself. That to me, has been key to me in understanding how I want to live the second half of my life.