Martha Beck Quotes

Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster.

It is one thing to make a choice and it is another thing to never have the chance.

I´m not a wandering slave, I am a woman of choice

We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.

We ought to respect the right of women to make choices in their lives.

No matter how bad things get, you can still walk away.

When you make something you are always offering some choices and denying others.

Each moment is a moment of choice ~ a time to leave the old, the limited, the restrained, and the contracted for the new, the unbound, and the liberating potential that expands before you.

Once you accept anything as tacked down, then you begin to build a structure, to accept limits. Then you have to make a choice as to whether or not you're going to accept that structure. If you do, you give up the notion of total freedom.

Choice is destiny's soul mate.

You don't have to settle. It's a choice you get to make every day.

The true savage is a slave, and is always talking about what he must do; the true civilised man is a free man, and is always talking about what he may do.

He that has his chains knocked off, and the prison doors set open to him, is perfectly at liberty, because he may either go or stay, as he best likes; though his preference be determined to stay, by the darkness of the night, or illness of the weather, or want of other lodging.

The point is less what we choose than that we have the power to make a choice.

It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it.

Here is the crux of the matter, the distilled essence, the only thing you need to remember: When considering whether to say yes or no, you must choose the response that feels like freedom. Period.

I think the most important thing for all of us to realize is you have to make the decision and be comfortable with it. And every woman should be respected for making her own choice.

I define success as when I say "yes" when I am given an opportunity.

Choice. It's the word that allows yes and the word that makes no possible. It's the word that puts the free in freedom and takes obligation out of the mix. It's the word upon which adventure, exhilaration, and authenticity depend. It's the word that the cocoon whispers to the caterpillar.

What we share with animals is a desire for choice. It's a desire to have control over our life and a desire to live and use choice as a way in which we can facilitate our ability to live and that is something we really were born with.

There is only one decision you need to make: You are either working at your Freedom or you are accepting your bondage.

True freedom is understanding that we have a choice in who and what we allow to have power over us.

Choice is our point of power.

I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.