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Martha Beck
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“Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy.”
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“Experience has convinced me that life's patches of awfulness may be purposeful and, in the end, benevolent.”
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“[On busyness:] ... you with your six-page to-do list and your life-devouring job and that 'will work for sleep' expression on your haunted little face.”
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“[On therapy:] One of the first things I tell new clients is not to trust me. ... It's not that I'm pernicious or false — it's just that I'm fallible. If you trust me before trusting yourself, you'll rob us both of excellent counsel.”
Martha Beck, U.S. sociologist, life coach, writer
(1962)
Full name: Martha Nibley Beck.