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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

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

— Martha Beck

#disaster #feel #lead #never #our

When you are thrown onto the stage at 17 in such an enormous way, it becomes living on the edge because every step you take, every word you speak, every action you do becomes headline news. And it became, for me, life or death. ↗

— Boris Becker

#became #because #becomes #death #edge

Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work? ↗

— Gary Becker

#activities #agricultural #almost #bearing #certain

The Treatise tries to analyze not only modern Western families, but also those in other cultures and the changes in family structure during the past several centuries. ↗

— Gary Becker

#analyze #centuries #changes #cultures #during

Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#believe #cliff #drift #earth #end

When you have kids you do grow up. I have just started realising it now-it changes the world, having children. ↗

— David Beckham

#children #grow #grow up #having #having children

We stay as a team. I might be England captain, but that doesn't mean I get treated differently. ↗

— David Beckham

#differently #england #get #i #mean

We've been asked to do 'Playboy' together, me and Victoria, as a pair. I don't think I'll ever go naked, but I'll never say never. ↗

— David Beckham

#been #ever #go #i #me