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The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times.
Martha Beck
Day
The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations and you become available to experience things as they are.
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Experience
Expectations
Living
Result
We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster.
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Age
Disaster
Thinking
When you meet people, show real appreciation, then genuine curiosity.
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People
Appreciation
Curiosity
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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Love
Accuracy
Blind
Wrong
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.
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Life
Philosophy
I have come to believe that there are infinite passageways out of the shadows, infinite vehicles to transport us into the light.
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Infinite
Light
Shadows
Use anything you can think of to understand and be understood, and you'll discover the creativity that connects you with others.
Martha Beck
Creativity
Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young.
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Children
Old
I really do think that any deep crisis is an opportunity to make your life extraordinary in some way.
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Life
Opportunity
Crisis
Deep
Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.
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People
Lonely
Adults under threat feel like children.
Martha Beck
Children
Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation.
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Anger
Children
Grief
Guilt
Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which case we feel 107.
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Coffee
Elderly
Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld.
Martha Beck
Beauty
Being
Eye
Feeling
May
Mind