Martha Beck
  • Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you.

  • Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld.

  • Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look.

  • Bracketing has turned all my experiences, remembered and present, into a gallery of miracles where I wander around dazzled by the beauty of events I cannot explain.

  • In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly have evolved to accommodate it.