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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. ↗

— Martha Beck

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Do whatever it takes to convey your essential self. ↗

— Martha Beck

#essential #self #takes #whatever #your

Instead of fretting about getting everything done, why not simply accept that being alive means having things to do? Then drop into full engagement with whatever you're doing, and let the worry go. ↗

— Martha Beck

#accept #alive #being #doing #done

Polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical appearance that prevent many of us from facing, discussing and solving our real problems. ↗

— Martha Beck

#appearance #discussing #facing #lies #many

To know what that true self is without social pressure is to know your true nature. ↗

— Martha Beck

#nature #pressure #self #social #true

We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster. ↗

— Martha Beck

#disaster #feel #lead #never #our

But it then very soon became clear that the response of a war against terrorism, initially conceived of in a metaphorical sense, began to be taken increasingly seriously and came to entail waging a real war. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#became #began #came #clear #conceived

At least six Bayern players, who have won almost everything, are in the national squad. ↗

— Franz Beckenbauer

#everything #least #national #players #six

Back then, a half-a-century ago, the situation was totally different. Economically, we were practically on our knees, and politically, we were still excluded from the community of nations. Today, in this respect, we have a totally different and much more stable basis. ↗

— Franz Beckenbauer

#back #basis #community #different #economically

It would make me a lot happier if I could meet up again next year with as many friends as possible from all over the world who I've met during my career. That's where the great opportunity lies, for me personally, in our role as World Cup host. ↗

— Franz Beckenbauer

#career #could #cup #during #friends